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Medical Imaging Pace is Surprisingly Slowing

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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The Human Factor: Usability of Medical Devices Crucial

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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Virtual WLAN Helps Medical Practices Transition to Electronic Medical Records

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Hansen Medical FDA-Cleared to use Magellan Robotic System

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iSirona Helps UC Irvine Link Medical Devices, Accelerate Delivery of Patient Data to Researchers

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Credit Cards. Medical Records. What's Next? Hacked Medical Devices?

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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Recorders.com Announces One Year Free Support for Dragon Medical Practice Edition

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

Recorders.com, a Texas-based supplier of digital dictation equipment in the United States, announced a special offer -- free support for one year – with the purchase of Dragon Medical Practice Edition Upgrades.

The new offer is a tribute to speech recognition technology’s groundbreaking advances, which stared in the early 1930s, according to Recorders.com. 

A significant advancement in speech recognition occurred in 1978 when the first single-chip voice synthesizer debuted in “Speak and Spell,” an educational hand-held toy from Texas Instruments (News

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Report Finds Increase of Almost 100 Percent in Medical Data Breaches

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It’s hard to believe, but a recent report by Redspin, Inc. found an astounding 97-percent increase in protected health information (PHI) data breaches in 2011, across a sample of healthcare organizations in the US, according to a story at healthitnewsdirect.com.

Another report recently revealed that over the last two years, “health care organizations have reported 364 incidents involving the loss or theft of information ranging from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and medical diagnoses on nearly 18 million patients – equivalent to the population of Florida.”

And what’s it costing us? At last count, $6 billion. After surveying 72 healthcare organizations, the Ponemon Institute and ID experts found that, on average, the cost of data breaches to organizations surveyed rose $183,526 to $2,243,700 from 2010, and extrapolating the study to the entire healthcare industry, Ponemon estimates that data breaches could cost the U.S. healthcare industry between $4.2 billion and $8.1 billion a year, or an average of $6.5 billion, according to a story by George V. Hulme at csoonline.com.

Redspin Inc., a provider of penetration testing and IT security audit services, said analyzing 385 breaches (affecting 500 individuals or more) turned up an estimated 19 million people on various health databases, and at least 46 U.S. states had their medical files breached since August 2009 when the interim final breach notification of the HITECH Act was passed.

Redspin found in its survey a 525-percent increase in records breached due to unencrypted device loss, and “an increase of 76 percent of breaches involving a business associate between 2010 and 2011, which made up 59 percent of the total number of breaches.”

The improper security processes, followed by the organizations which had the breaches, contributed to the two largest and three of the top five breaches, according to the story.

When you look at the value of PHI, when sold on the black market (estimated to be around $50) and “its use to commit Medicare fraud, the rate of breaches has increased to 60 percent, occurring with a malicious intent like theft and hacking,” according to Redspin.

But it’s not all about careless employees and files that were not properly encoded. The report also found a surge in the amounts of PHI on unprotected storage devices, and a “lack of security on portable devices (39%), like laptops, mobile phones and tablets, and desktop computers or servers (25%) contributing to breaches,” according to the story.

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Cytta Installs CyttaNetwork Smartphones and Remote Medical Monitoring

By Raju ShanbhagTMCnet Contributor
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Remote patient monitoring of health and medical information is one of the quickest growing areas in the health care industry. The market uses numerous devices to communicate remotely and facilitate data collection and analytics.

Cytta, a source of remote management solutions, recently announced the company has successfully installed a CyttaConnect remote medical monitoring ecosystem with the help of the Heritage Provider Network (HPN) in Glendale, CA (News - Alert).

By transmitting and receiving clinical data through their cellular network, medical practitioners can easily observe and evaluate their patients. Caregivers can now receive notification of their patients’ results and download the stored data from associated portals. Benefits of this medical system include an improvement in patient outcomes, improving patient satisfaction and economical benefits such as lower care management costs, the company stated in a press release.

“Our open-standards architecture and low-cost, highly scalable system strategy is dramatically different than all other systems out there," stated Cytta Corp. President, Erik Stephansen. "We're making it easier to collect information from many medical devices and doing it from anywhere the patient lives, works or plays. Other systems collect one health data metric, but what if you need to know more about the patient's blood pressure and their blood glucose and oxygen absorption levels?”

TMC’s (News - Alert) Rajani Baburajan recently reported the company concentrates on offering eHealth solutions to the market. The U.S. currently spends more on health care than any other country in the world, especially in the call monitoring sector.

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Maimonides Medical Center Goes High-Tech, Stiffens Work Hours

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Maimonides Medical Center, a Brooklyn-based hospital, wanted to make sure it stays on top of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) regulations, and partnered with Amcom Software Inc. to create a tracking solution that would monitor all students’ hours. The hospital trains over 400 residents in 70 different specialties.

In 2010, ACGME announced they would enforce stricter work hours for medical students, limiting them from 30-hour shifts (the rule since 2003) to 16-hour shifts, effective during the summer of last year. It also stipulated that residents must have 8-10 hours off between shifts, with total work time not exceeding 80 hours.

“Information is power, but communication is key,” said Dr. Steven Davidson, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Maimonides Medical Center. “Amcom is at the center of residents communications and has become a natural fulcrum for our resident duty hours tracking.” said Davidson.

Amcom Software works with companies to provide staff and customers with data they need. The company has created communication solutions for years and developed this software specifically for Maimonides.

The system will allow the teaching hospital to monitor residents’ hours, generate reports on how long they have worked, track the hours in between shifts, create reminders near the end of a residents shifts and show the full on-call schedule.

Residents have access to the system to update their statuses and follow their own hours to make sure the program logs them correctly.

Amcom has been in discussions with the hospital, and is glad it’s been able to create a solution that benefits both students and staff to stay on top of the ACGME stipulations.

Said Chris Heim, President of Amcom: “Having an early adopter like Maimonides has been invaluable, and other teaching hospitals will benefit from these joint efforts.”

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