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Drug diversion has continued to be a major problem in healthcare, one that has considerable consequences. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the problem has continued to become more and more prevalent. Approximately 10 to 15% of all healthcare professionals will misuse drugs or alcohol at…
It is rare that this will come up, but in certain circumstances you may need to change (or guarantee) the database in which a query executes. This can really plague you when you’re working with multiple databases on multiple servers. You don’t want to forget which database…
One day you write some code on a new system, or using tables in the database you’ve never used before, and BOOM! A perfectly ordinary query blows up… what is this collation business??! SQL Server collation determines how character (char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar, etc.) columns are handled…
During our second iatricSystems Fall Exchange, we brought together industry leaders and healthcare organizations to discuss today’s challenges, including the current threat landscape and how to protect your organization from internal and external threats. One highly attended session was The True Cost of a Data Breach and…
Drug diversion among healthcare workers is ultimately underestimated, undetected and under-reported. According to Porter Research, roughly nine out of ten healthcare professionals have met or know someone who has diverted drugs, and 40 percent of hospitals lack programs to prevent this commonality from happening. So, what is…
