Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off
This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts of the bills, and introduces Imprivata digital identity technology, which has been used in health care for such purposes for many years. Calling the Cops Health care advocates and reformers can show off plenty of war stories and wounds just from dealing with regulations and bureaucracies in health care. When it comes to controlled substances, toss in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for extra suspense. State governments are also roped in thanks to thei...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Regulations American Telemedicine Association ATA Colin Banas Controlled Substrances DEA DrFirst Electronic Prescribing Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances EPC Source Type: blogs

We Seem To Be Under Attack From AI From All Sides.
This appeared last week: Special AI laws needed for financial services: Longo Tom Burton and James Eyers Jan 31, 2024 – 6.07pm ASIC chairman Joe Longo says he is concerned about the high risks associated with AI and financial services, and he is unconvinced current rules will be enough to prevent unfair practices. Risks from data poisoning, model manipulation and generative AI making up (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Strategies and Best Practices for Developing and Nurturing Leadership Skills in Health IT
The new year is a time of personal growth and self-improvement. We all set out with a list of resolutions, determined to become the best versions of ourselves. While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. Aristotle believed that in order to become a virtuous person, you must do virtuous things. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors. We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia best practices Caryn Hewitt CenTrak CliniComp e4health Health IT Leadership Health IT Skills Healthcare Leadership John Johnson Source Type: blogs

Cybersecurity ’s Role in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer
The following is a guest article by William Thorn, CISSP, CDPSE, Senior Strategist and Architect at Trellix Do cyber threats feel like an inevitable workplace hazard? Attacks may seem rare when trying to anticipate them from afar. Once the threat materializes, it is common in healthcare settings for hospitals to choose a reactive approach. To choose not to invest in cyber defense education, tools, or any other preventative measure until it is too late. But picture a similar strategy in a clinical setting — imagine if we didn’t approach health safety in layers of defense. Examination rooms wouldn’t be regularly saniti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Chief Medical Officer CISO CMIO CMO Cyber Attacks Cybersecurity Healthcare CISO Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Secur Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – February 3, 2024
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. How to Balance Innovation and Digital Transformation With Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on this critical topic. Advice included implement a thorough solution design process, engage with legal and compliance teams as stakeholders in the design process, and establish a culture of transparen...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

Patenting Strategies by Pharmaceutical Companies: A Lawful Use of the Patent System or an Abusive Conduct?
Olga Gurgula (Brunel University London), Patenting Strategies by Pharmaceutical Companies: A Lawful Use of the Patent System or an Abusive Conduct? (A Research Agenda for Patent Law, Bonadio and Shemtov eds.) (2023): To delay generic competition, pharmaceutical companies have been... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 3, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Balancing Innovation and Digital Transformation with Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety
As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any of it without breaking regulations or if it puts our patient’s safety at risk. This leaves us with one very important question. How can professionals in Health IT foster innovation and drive digital transformation within healthcare organizations while balancing the need for regulatory compliance and patient safety? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their answers to this ques...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Authenticx Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Costas Boussios Digital Transformation Healthcare Compliance Healthcare Digital Transformation Healthcare Innovation Healthcare Regulati Source Type: blogs

Medical care, medical costs
 Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, something like 90% of Americans have some form of health insurance. Great news! That means we can all afford the medical services we need and nobody has to go broke because they get sick or are injured in a car crash or by somebody exercising their Second Amendment rights! Err, no. Sadly it does not mean that. In the first place, for the 50% of people who get their insurance through employment, it ’s costing them more and more for the premiums – by three times the rate of inflation, since 1999.    With that, plus deductibles, copays, and payment denials by in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 2, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24
Joanna N. Erdman (Dalhousie University), Mariana Prandini Assis (The New School), Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24 (Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, Rebecca J. Cook ed.) (2023): Article 12 of the Convention on the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 2, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Too much fawning over Len Schaeffer?
By MATTHEW HOLT There’s a lot of strum & dangst about the uptick in system utilization that has boosted hospital profits and hit Humana and United’s bottom line (But not so much Elevance’s). Kevin O’ Leary over at Health Tech Nerds brought this up today and I was reminded of this piece I wrote in 2006. And a big issue was, how much understanding and control do insurers have over the utilization in (and out of) their networks. So take a look at this piece and particularly, given the issues at the BUCAHs and at smaller players like Agilon, consider how much insurers actually know about spending...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health insurers Len Schaeffer Medicare Advantage Oldies Utilization Source Type: blogs

Developing a Reproductive Justice Approach to Regulating Formal and Informal Sperm Donation
Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia), Sonia M. Suter (The George Washington University), Developing a Reproductive Justice Approach to Regulating Formal and Informal Sperm Donation (Va. Pub. L. and Legal Theory Rsch. Paper No. 2023-78) (2023): This essay explores the regulation... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Can Generative AI Improve Health Care Relationships?
By MIKE MAGEE “What exactly does it mean to augment clinical judgement…?” That’s the question that Stanford Law professor, Michelle Mello, asked in the second paragraph of a May, 2023 article in JAMA exploring the medical legal boundaries of large language model (LLM) generative AI. This cogent question triggered unease among the nation’s academic and clinical medical leaders who live in constant fear of being financially (and more important, psychically) assaulted for harming patients who have entrusted themselves to their care. That prescient article came out just one month before news leaked about ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Generative AI LLMs Mike Magee Patient-Physician Relationship Source Type: blogs

The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility
Discussion Paper No. 16608) (2023): The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 30, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Drug Paraphernalia Laws Undermine Harm Reduction
Jeffrey A. Singer (Cato Institute), Sophia Heimowitz (R Street Institute), Drug Paraphernalia Laws Undermine Harm Reduction (Cato Inst. Pol ’y Analysis No. 929) (2022): Every state except Alaska has laws that criminalize the possession and/​or sale of paraphernalia for the consumption... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 29, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Reflections on the Dumpster
Many sane people are baffled by the veneration of the Trump cultists for such a repulsive, worthless excuse for a human being. I ' m going to say what we aren ' t supposed to say. The answer is obvious: the characteristics of the Orange Shitpile that are most loathsome are exactly what they like about him. He gives not just permission, but affirmation, to the base impulses of people who aren ' t very smart and whose basic nature is selfishness, continual anger, and hatred.People who are ignorant, lack critical thinking skills, and whose minds are boxed in by prejudice and bigotry can ' t win arguments with facts and logic,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 27, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs