The healthcare industry has seen many changes in the management of patient information.  Electronic documentation is progressively replacing paper; handwritten orders are being replaced with computerized provider order entry.  Use of health information technology (HIT) that once was optional has now become essential to streamline care, access up-to-date evidence-based care recommendations, make patient data more accessible through…

Data Breaches happen across a multitude of industries, and occur more often than many would like to admit. The healthcare industry has been particularly susceptible to breaches. Most recently, University of Washington Medicine’s Medical Center found…

The buzz that everybody keeps talking about with the new iPhone 5s is the finger print sensor especially for healthcare.  This feature would secure patient information from being seen by anyone other than the user of the iPhone.  Sounds great, but it didn’t quite work out that way because Apple’s touch ID technology…