HITEQ Resources & Events

This is an online training to become a Lean Daily Improvement Facilitator. The Lean Daily Improvement Facilitator understands how to make small but meaningful daily adjustments to how we work and behave in order to move or hold a metric. Lean Daily Improvement (LDI) is useful for making systematic small-step changes while work is being done, and sustaining the gains that have been made through other change efforts. LDI builds a team-based, continuous improvement habit at the point of service.

Example of a staff member dashboard that is used to ensure effective delivery of assigned tasks.

Many times when we think of mobile health it is in the terms of patient engagement and communication, but it is important for Health Centers to also be familiar with privacy and security concerns as it relates to mobile devices used by providers and staff.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE) has recently provided two new resources that cover movile device security and a catalogue of currently known threats. Both items are available for download from the NCCOE website.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights has started its next phase of audits of covered entities and their business associates. The 2016 Phase 2 HIPAA Audit Program will review the policies and procedures adopted and employed by covered entities and their business associates to meet selected standards and implementation specifications of the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. 

This article provides an overview of a patient portal implementation conducted by Patients First within east central Missouri counties. The NextMD patient portal was rolled out in August 2010 and serves three core functions:  1) Providing patients with an electronic clinical summary, 2) Providing timely access to lab results, and 3) Providing secure messaging with clinical and office staff.