Studies Confirm Dissatisfaction It comes as no surprise, to those working in and with Health IT, that studies are finding many providers are not happy using Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. Several studies have shown dissatisfaction with EHR systems is on the rise. A survey of 4,279 clinicians was conducted between March 2010 and December…
Keeping Your Business Up When The Cloud Crashes
Harsh weather, demand overload, technical malfunction, viruses, and hackers can all knock out the cloud. Thousands of cloud users were affected by outages in the past year. While in most cases there is nothing you can do but wait it out, there are some actions your business can take to minimize the damage caused when…
The Cloud Crashed – Again: Understanding “The Cloud”
2012 was a year in which the cloud crashed – several times – bringing down a host of hosted services. And this trend is continuing in 2013. What are hosted services? What actually happens when the cloud crashes? And what does this mean for you? What are cloud hosted services? “A hosted service is a…
Are YOU Prepared for a HIPAA Audit?
The dreaded Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) random HIPAA Compliance Audit Program is in full swing, and even small medical practices are being targeted. In May 2012, a two-physician Cardiology Practice was fined $100,000! Are you implementing appropriate HIPAA safeguards in your medical practice? You were warned As a Provider, you were warned back in…
Hacking & HIMSS
With HIPAA patient privacy and security laws, and Meaningful Use security requirements, a breach of patient data will cost you both a penalty payment and your patients’ trust. In addition, hacking of medical equipment can be used to kill patients by changing information on intended surgical patients, or even, for example, by delivering a lethal…
Featured Posts
Stemp Training “Intense,” the Experience “Impressive”
I was hired by Stemp Systems in May 2013. Upon completing my first two weeks, Morris Stemp, our CEO, asked me to write about my experiences getting started at Stemp. ~Paul Figuera Impressive! I could stop right here, but that would leave too many things unanswered and unexplained. Upon arriving at Stemp Systems, I met…
Continue Reading »Technically Speaking, Quality Measures are Related to Health IT and EHR Use
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses quality measures to measure or quantify health care processes, outcomes, and patient perceptions associated with the ability to provide high-quality health care that relate to one or more quality goals. How exactly do medical providers report the fulfillment of these quality measures? Learn from the Guru…
Continue Reading »Preparing your IT for Hurricane Season
Is your business prepared for Hurricane Season? This week, May 26 – June 1, is National Hurricane Preparedness Week. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting “an active or extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season for 2013. While they can’t predict this far in advance the number or intensity of storms that will make landfall during Hurricane…
Continue Reading »Penny Wise and Shekel Foolish
Everyone likes to save money by reducing expenses, but sometimes we don’t focus on the right things and it ends up costing us more in the long run. Stemp Systems recently brought on a new client, a company that opened up a new office near our building. When I first met this neighbor, I walked…
Continue Reading »Starting Over With a New EHR System
When to Start Over Is your medical practice considering starting over with a new EHR system? Studies have shown an increase in dissatisfaction with EHRs over the course of time, being caused by a variety of factors, as we discussed in last week’s blog post. A 2012 study of 300 prospective EHR buyers by KLAS…
Continue Reading »
