Data Breaches in Healthcare: Proactively Protect PHI
A quick online search for “Healthcare Data Breach” will reveal over 100,000 listings that discuss breaches. A similar search for “fines for healthcare data breach” reveals almost as many listings. The unauthorized access to or viewing of a patient medical record is not only illegal; it can be very costly for the facility entrusted with […]
Tuesdays with Theresa: Cleaning Procedure and Preference Card Dictionaries
It’s spring and time to clean up your Picis system! Doing an annual review of dictionaries, tables, sections, forms in both booking and case record is a good way to keep the system in tip-top shape. One of the things folks commonly complain about is the inactive options in dictionaries and tables. Making those option […]
Understanding Machine Learning from Theory to Algorithms: Increasing the Value of Your Picis Data
The collection of data points, information and statistics is always an area of focus when developing a product and in conversations with our current clients. However, the real value of this information lies in how it is interpreted and how the learnings are applied in our customer’s facilities. Without that interpretation, analysis and application, the […]
The Importance of Electronic Preference Cards
I was listening an episode of “The Indicator,” which highlighted the importance of the operating room (OR) as a profit center as well as a cost center in a hospital or an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). With the COVID-19 recovery starting to take shape ,it is important that facilities focus on minimizing costs in their […]
Remote Assist and Remote Go-lives: When Hospitals Need Them the Most
In the last year the world has significantly changed for all of us; however, some things remain the same: supporting our customers remotely. Picis has always provided remote support using tools to enhance our security posture and enable compliance with HIPAA and HITECH requirements because we recognize and allow for the requirement of security and […]
Data Analysis Plan – Flipping the Script
Multi-Doc Viewer, Envision and Helping to Improve Patient Care In today’s healthcare environment, clinicians are constantly bombarded with data. I know as a clinician taking care of a patient prior to surgery, I’d receive information from (at a minimum) the following: The patient Patient’s spouse/family member/significant other Surgeon consult notes Anesthesia consult notes Lab Radiology […]