Monthly Archives: March 2009

Changing the tune of the discussion

Changing the tune from requirements to specific individual added value is key to fostering enthusiasm among healthcare professionals for EHR implementations.

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| Posted on by Robert Stegwee in Applying Technology Tagged | | Leave a comment

Attribute Based Access Control

Access control is one of the key issues handling the information flow inside healthcare actors, between healthcare actors and cross border healthcare actions. Conventional access control models are for example Identity Based Access Control (IBAC) and Role Based Access Control (RBAC). In IBAC access permissions are directly associated with a subject and it is difficult to scale. In RBAC access permissions are based on the role(s) a subject is performing. RBAC gives better scalability and …

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| Posted on by Krister Svanberg in Applying Technology | 3 Comments

What Does American Recovery & Reinvestment Act mean for HIT?

Clearly US Stimulus Package for HIT ($19.2B) shows there is a strong desire to get codified patient data moving in an electronic form, but why is it going to work? Are providers really going to be interested in letting that cost savings impact their share holders? Will the short-term incentives really going to allow providers to see a new value proposition emerge where they can start new revenue streams (e.g., telehealth/telemonitoring)? How does anyone limit …

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| Posted on by Gerry Yantis in Unlocking Information Tagged | | Leave a comment