What Is Patient Engagement in Healthcare and Why Is It Important?
Patient engagement in healthcare is defined as patients actively engaged in gathering information and making decisions about their health.
What Is HIPAA Compliance and Where Is It Taking Health IT?
Digital technology makes healthcare organizations more effective and efficient, reducing the potential for human error and speeding clinical communications. But it can also threaten patient privacy. Congress recognized this risk in the mid-90s — a decade before smartphones and nearly 15 years before required electronic health records (EHR) — and passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This legislation sets national standards for patient privacy and, eventually, for healthcare data security as well.
How to Become HIPAA Compliant (Step-by-Step Guide)
Customer privacy and cybersecurity are critical issues for most industries, but none more than healthcare. Thanks to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), health data is highly protected. It’s also the most valuable data on the black market, where medical records are worth $250 apiece. The next highest price tag is just $5.40 for payment records.
Using TigerConnect’s Teams to Alert & Mobilize Groups Across Your Organization
Another page comes across the overhead speakers on your floor. You listen diligently to discover the request is for a Code Blue… not your team. Although none of the day’s pages have been directed at you, it’s critical that you’re alert and attuned when the time comes. As you resume your duties, concentration broken, you take a second to collect your thoughts and recall what you were thinking just moments ago. The most prevalent thought now being on the time you’ve once again lost to disruption.
How Data Standards in Healthcare Support Interoperability
This interoperability story is still emerging. FHIR is the newer, upcoming standard for data exchange. Vendors are just beginning to exploit it. The industry should see useful developments over the next five years.
7 Benefits of Nursing Informatics in Healthcare
Let’s look at seven benefits of nursing informatics and what a healthcare system would be like without nursing informatics. We’d manage, surely. But our healthcare system is much better off with nurse informaticists doing their thing, being a remarkable gift to society.
Why Telehealth Isn’t Enough and the Virtual Care Strategy You Need to Solve It
Telehealth alone is not enough to promote patient engagement and resolve care delivery deficits – a communication strategy with video, voice, secure texting and EHR integration capabilities that can be used seamlessly with the interdisciplinary care team, AND with patients and families is necessary to improve outcomes and experience
3 Tips for Better Clinical Workflows in Healthcare
Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and physician practices have successfully implemented one or more of these three tips for improving clinical workflows in healthcare.
TigerConnect Patient Engagement Is Telehealth Simplified
With the rapid and devastating spread of COVID-19, one thing is for sure: the age of telehealth is here and it’s not going away. While the Department of Health & Human Services moves swiftly to establish broader guidelines around this new channel for care delivery, many IT organizations are scrambling to make sense of this sudden, inevitable leap into a world of virtual care delivery. And with $22 billion dollars in subsidies through the CARES Act, there’s an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to fund and build a successful telehealth progra
3 Surprising Tips for Enhancing Autonomy in Nursing
Nursing autonomy is characterized by nurses thinking and acting by themselves without seeking approval. A broader description comes from the American Nurses Association’s Magnet Recognition Program. This program identifies 14 Forces of Magnetism, and the ninth Force is nursing autonomy. Read more.
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