HS 200 Health Informatics PL01 Summer 11

The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.

TIGER is now moving forward to integrate a full set of recommendations on: Get connected on the current activities of the Virtual Learning Environment! Welcome to the NEW TIGER Initiative Website! The new website aims to connect you with current resources, upcoming events and TIGERs in your area.

Our Vision: Transform health and health care through nursing informatics Our Mission: To advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. We represent thousands of nurses and bring together nursing informatics groups that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels.

TeleHealth Services, a subsidiary of Telerent Leasing Corporation, is dedicated to enhancing the hospital experience and raising the satisfaction of patients and staff.

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education

Bringing Immunity to Every Community What is the vaccination rate in your community? ANA is working to eliminate vaccine-preventable diseases through a national immunization partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nurses play a key role in increasing vaccination rates, so we have created a resource page of nursing-specific information, education and tools.

ANA is among a group of organizations that launched a new comprehensive online resource - HealthCareandYou.org - to give Americans easy-to-understand information about the health care law so they can make informed health care decisions for themselves and their families.

Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health and medical research.

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Nursing Informatics articles, lessons, books, tutorials, discussions by June Kaminski, MSN> <META NAME=

Nursing Informatics articles, lessons, books, tutorials, discussions by June Kaminski, MSN> <META NAME=

Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health & Science University will be offering another Biomedical Informatics Distance Learning Course as part of the AMIA 10x10 Program. The OHSU offering of 10x10 was the original offering in the program and has had the largest enrollment.

JAMIA, the most innovative research journal published in Health and Biomedicine today, delivers the latest research and information about health care's hot new field in a series of free webinars!

The Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) is a free, international, professional, refereed publication that focuses on nursing informatics in all practice settings. OJNI is committed to addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing informatics as it relates to the art of nursing. CINAHL indexes the journal.

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Welcome to the new incarnation of CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. The year 2011 heralds significant changes in the way CIN publishes, with substantial benefits for readers and authors alike. After publishing dozens of articles over the years on the use of the Internet for patient education and research, the journal has made the transition to a monthly online presence.

The traditional paper charting system used by numerous health care facilities is costly and time-consuming - it's yesterday's news. The American Recovery Act of 2009 will require all medical offices to have electronic health records by 2014. What are the benefits of electronic medical records?

COLUMBIANA - Patient medical records at Columbiana Clinic are going paperless. Two of the clinic's four physicians have already made the switch. The other two will follow soon. Once the switch is complete, medical records will exist only in a computer system, not on paper.

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety.