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Applying The Concept Of Preventative Care To Your Virtualized Application Services
1/10/2018
Healthcare invented the concept of preventative care – the regular analysis of patient health indicators and diagnostics to stay ahead of issues. Practitioners aim to discover health related anomalies in their earliest stages of development in order to treat them quickly before they become life threatening and catastrophic. If we were to extend this principle to the digital services doctors and clinical staff need and use in treating patients, wouldn’t it also make sense to monitor and analyse the application services and underlying networks to stay ahead of slowdowns that could wreak havoc throughout the patient care delivery network?
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5 Health IT Trends To Watch For In 2018
1/9/2018
More of the same and plenty of the new are on tap for health IT in 2018. Here are five trends to watch as the year unfolds.
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Advanced Analytics Driving Healthcare Transformation
12/28/2017
The time has come … Everyone talks about Big Data’s potential to transform healthcare. They understand it’s needed to achieve the Triple Aim: improving patient outcomes, lowering cost of care, and increasing patient engagement. Yet there are very few tangible examples of organizations realizing this potential. One reason is our industry is historically slow to adopt change, even when we know what change needs to happen.
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How Actionable Data Can Assist In The Operating Room
12/14/2017
Today’s hospitals face relentless pressure to improve quality, especially in the operating room. This challenge requires insights into root causes of problems and unnecessary clinical variations, which are notoriously difficult to diagnose.
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Behind The Scenes Of A Data Breach
11/29/2017
In today’s security landscape, it’s not a matter of if a company will be attacked, rather the question is when. Forrester Research reports that 49 percent of global network security decision-makers have experienced at least one breach during the past 12 months. Research shows the average company loses $141 per compromised record, with the greatest loss in the healthcare industry as $380 is lost per each compromised record – not to mention the legal implications when patient data becomes at risk.
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For Hospitals, Predictive Analytics Is A Necessity, Not A Luxury
11/10/2017
When thinking about the business value of predictive analytics, hospitals often view it as an evolutionary technology and look for things like use cases, accuracy, cost, and return on investment. While those are all valid points to consider, a better way to look at it is to focus on what truly matters for patients and caregivers, work backwards, and explore how predictive analytics can make them better. Having worked with dozens of hospitals, I can tell you that — when viewed from this perspective — the answer is predictive analytics is a necessity, not a luxury.
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Mining Data For The Future Of Radiology
10/26/2017
In 2012, vRad embarked on a data analytics initiative to better understand and manage our practice. By Kent Thomas, Vice President of Solutions and Business Development, vRad
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The Big Data Healthcare Is Ignoring
10/6/2017
In the years since the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare providers and technology developers have sought out solutions to leverage the resultant newfound abundance of patient data to improve outcomes. By Kurt Waltenbaugh, founder and CEO, Carrot Health
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Overcoming Data Challenges With Enterprise Information Management
10/4/2017
John Walton is Solutions Manager, Technology Services, CTG and Hamish Stewart-Smith, Managing Director for the North American Healthcare Business Unit at CTG recently took time talk with Health IT Outcomes about all things enterprise information management.
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Patient Matching Strategies In An M&A Environment
8/8/2017
Despite intense efforts and significant investments to implement EHRs, duplicate records continue to plague providers. Patient data matching functionalities within EHRs often lack the complexities to reconcile records from disparate and external systems. By Dan Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate