[ Monday, March 04, 2013 ]
Verizon Announces Secure Universal Messaging System at HIMSS: the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference is going on in New Orleans, and
according to BNA, Verizon has announced that it is developing an open-source, secure messaging system that will allow healthcare providers to text safely and securely. Apparently, this system will serve as a bridge between different EMR systems. BNA is subscription service, so I looked for any other announcement about this online, but haven't seen it. If I see one, I'll update this.
I've been speaking a lot lately on medical record and HIPAA issues, and one thing that comes up a lot is whether physicians can text safely, or if they should not text at all. There are a lot of problems raised by texting, but a secure system, with the ability to retain texts, would go a long way to curing those problems. It would be nice to see Verizon working on something more along those lines.
UPDATE: Here's a
free link to another source on the Verizon announcement.
Jeff [9:52 PM]
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