HIPAA – A Brief History And Summary
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed on August 21, 1996, with the dual goals of making healthcare delivery more efficient and increasing the number of Americans with health insurance coverage. This complex and comprehensive set of...3 key considerations for a successful EHR Migration
Switching to a new EHR system? You need to consider these 3 things for a successful EHR Migration Hospitals are always in the process of switching EHR systems. A report entitled “Acute Care EMR Decision Insights” from KLAS research found that it is the...Addressing The Storage Crisis For Digital Pathology
Addressing The Storage Crisis For Digital Pathology There are multiple drivers for change in histopathology across the NHS and private sectors. Pathology services are facing huge pressures through rising workloads, the increasing complexity of their work, and staff...Frontline Digitisation: what is going to happen to your legacy EPR data?
The funding for the NHS Frontline Digitisation initiative is imminent with the aim, according to Dr. Tim Ferris, the National Director of Transformation at NHS England and NHS Improvement and his Chief Information Officer, Simon Bolton; of “levelling-up acute sector...The Path To HIMSS Level 5 For The NHS
In May of 2022, the UK government announced a program aimed at accelerating the adoption of the HIMSS Electronic Records Adoption Model (EMRAM) across the UK (albeit it’s referred to locally as ‘Minimal Digital Foundations’ and is subject to some variations to the...BridgeHead on Twitter
The Cloud went down mid-project—but this hospital kept going.
In Part 2 of his blog, BridgeHead’s Pedro Carvalho shares how a resilient #ClinicalDataRepository setup avoided disaster during a major #legacydata migration.
Read it here: https://www2.bridgeheadsoftware.com/system-downtime-in-healthcare-how-a-clinical-data-repository-saved-the-day-part-2-tw/