Truth be told most of us love our nifty little gadgets and we feel like we just can’t live without them. And now more than ever Centricity mobile access is being requested. That’s where BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) comes in... When staff is able to access company or Centricity Hosting using their … [Read more...]
IT security, Centricity and Allscripts Hosting: Can I Do It Myself?
The expectation that healthcare IT departments can perform routine but constant security vigilance on its networks is unrealistic. We call it "protected" health information. But the reality is that breaches of our personal health data are on the rise, some of them breathtaking in scope. The … [Read more...]
Get Better Inventory Management with GE Centricity Using Bar Code Scanning
Why You Should Use Bar Code Scanning In Your Practice And Not Just For Patient Safety To many of us, bar code scanning is a normal part of our daily lives. We go to the grocery store, clothing store, hardware store, etc and everything has a bar code on it. This code is then scanned during the … [Read more...]
How much bandwidth do you really need? Will my Network suffer?
More than you think! The usefulness of Allscripts and GE Centricity Hosting Services only continues to expand in our lives and workplaces. That's great as far as convenience and mobility of use, but sure causes a greater and greater demand on bandwidth. Perhaps your office is in a great place … [Read more...]
Allscripts and Centricity Hosting, Who’s responsible for protecting patient data?
Allscripts and Centricity Hosting and cloud computing in general is still fairly new to healthcare and, as such, confusion and a few myths surround the technology. And many of those skewed perceptions are driven by simple misunderstandings, most notably about information security. Indeed, … [Read more...]
Allscripts & Centricity Hosting: What’s your Downtime?
Cloud service outages at companies such as Amazon and Microsoft receive vast media attention considering the impact on their vast customer base and reputation as tech giants. When considering Allscripts & Centricity Hosting, the problem of cloud IT service outages has expanded to such an extent … [Read more...]
Deeper Dive into MIPS – Quality Measures
Digging Deeper into MIPS Quality Measure Requirements I have frequently heard the idiom "The devil is in the detail" and thought this was such an interesting phrase. After spending the past several weeks leisurely reading the MACRA final rule, I have a new found appreciation of these words. The … [Read more...]
GE Centricity Practice Solutions – Clinical List Items Not Displaying?
On February 17th GE reported an important product issue with unsigned Clinical List items that affects all versions of GE Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR. Please see below for details. Impact Consideration GE Healthcare recently became aware that document signing is occasionally … [Read more...]
