In the U.S. and Canada, one in 10 children ages 5 to 17 are classified as obese. The implications of obesity are severe and can range from insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, poor emotional health, and diminished social well-being. Additionally, obese children tend to become obese adults, making childhood obesity a public health concern. … Continued
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Interoperability – Something the industry can rally around Healthcare messaging applications and architectures are among the fastest growing areas of mobile health. At last month’s Health Care Messaging Conference, many providers were on display – including yours truly, OnPage. What was interesting about the conference was not just the range of providers – indeed there were … Continued
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Security Dominates At IT Nation last month in Orlando, there were dozens of ConnectWise integrations on display. Indeed, the purpose of the conference was and is to bring together vendors who take part in the ConnectWise integration ecosystem and provide a platform where they can interact with the larger MSP community. There were also numerous … Continued
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Blameless post-mortems allow us to examine mistakes in a way that focuses on the situational aspects of a failure’s mechanism and the decision-making process of individuals proximate to the failure. – The DevOps Handbook The engineers at Google describe post-mortem reporting as a “written record of an incident, its impact, the actions taken to mitigate … Continued
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Hackers are naturally drawn to healthcare because there’s great value in healthcare data. If a credit card has been compromised, the bank can put a stop on the card. The value is gone. But you can’t do that with a medical record. Running in parallel with the trend of healthcare data theft is the fact … Continued
read moreVoyage of entrepreneurship begins with understanding that flexibility trumps all Forbes interviews with Judit Sharon, OnPage’s CEO were authored by contributor Whitney Johnson. In the article, Whitney asks about OnPage’s evolution as a business as well as Judit’s evolution as a CEO. As the article notes, being CEO requires a commitment to being discovery-driven and … Continued
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At OnPage, we often see healthcare administrators pushing back against the use of personal smartphones. Administrators believe that enabling bring-your-own-device (BYOD) presents a security threat in healthcare. Indeed, BYOD security in healthcare is challenging and leads to many questions. For example, many hospital administrators wonder how they can ensure that ePHI is not intercepted and … Continued
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What’s so hard about the encryption of healthcare mobile messaging? Last week, I came across an interesting article on encryption and healthcare mobile messaging. The article pointed out that pointed out the need for mobile device security when practitioners exchange PHI. Apparently, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) … Continued
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Replace pagers with clinical communications platforms to improve physician accountability In a recent article written by Providence Community Health Center’s CMO, Dr. Andrew Saal wrote that his hospital needed to replace pagers to improve physician accountability. By using pagers, physicians had and continue to have a readily available crutch – a crutch they could use … Continued
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An actionable incident response management plan for your IT teams An incident response management plan defines the posture and actions IT operations teams take in order to effectively respond to incidents impacting customer experience. Given that 90 percent of large businesses say they experience major IT incidents and IT downtime several times a year, one … Continued
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