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Case Study: Touchstone Behavioral Health
4/27/2010
Touchstone Behavioral Health started out as Arizona Boys Community in 1968. Today, the company provides evidence-based behavioral treatment programs for at-risk children. Based in Glendale, Arizona, Touchstone employs over approximately 200 members and operates four locations in the Phoenix area, plus one in Flagstaff and one in Tucson. By CREDANT Technologies
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Integration Of ECM With EMR Facilitates Best Practices
9/24/2014
Named to Hospitals & Health Networks magazine’s “Most Wired” healthcare systems list 14 of the past 16 years, Sharp HealthCare (Sharp) has a long history of innovation. It developed a lab system in the early 1970s, implemented clinical documentation in 1985, deployed an enterprise content management (ECM) solution in its claims department in 2003 and initiated a five-year rollout of an electronic medical record (EMR) in its hospitals in 2006.
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Berkshire Health Systems, Inc. Automates ED Charge Entry And Coding Process For Meditech Users
9/16/2009
Berkshire Health Systems is a private, not-for-profit organization serving western Massachusetts. With 350 beds, it is the region?s leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services, and serves the area through a number of affiliates. By Biz Tech
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It’s Time To Rip Off The ETL Band-Aid
3/3/2016
It’s time to remove the ETL (extract-transform-load) band-aid, STAT. ETL served an admirable purpose for the last two decades, but today’s volume and complexity of data are overwhelming ETL tools. These technologies that were supposed to solve data problems have now become a hindrance — and it’s time to let them go.
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Adding ECM To The EHR Equation
11/24/2011
The healthcare industry is in the midst of radical transformation, and documents are at the heart of the revolution — with good reason.
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10 Things You Need To Know About Accountable Care Organizations
11/22/2011
Compared to a traditional fee-for-service model, a successful ACO will incentivize cooperation and will lower costs by encouraging quality care rather than generation of volume. This paper defines three different structures for ACOs: integrated, collective, and combination.
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The Smart Way For Healthcare Organizations To Go Mobile
6/10/2014
On January 1, 2014, a key prOvisiOn Of the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 went into effect, requiring healthcare providers across the country to adopt and demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (eMr) in order to maintain their existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels.
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Maximizing The Potential Of Virtual Care
9/17/2015
Almost daily, there is a new announcement about the next-big-thing that promises to radically improve healthcare. By Lidia L. Fonseca, SVP and CIO, Quest Diagnostics
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Data Sharing In A Crisis Environment
4/16/2020
In February, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued two transformative rulings that give patients unprecedented access to and control over their personal health data. The rules implement interoperability and patient access provisions that empower patients to manage their health electronically. Under typical circumstances, these HHS rulings would have garnered considerable attention; however, the news broke just as America was besieged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mismatched: How Patient Identification Errors Are Costing Patients And Health Systems
11/29/2017
Imagine two patients with the same last name, admitted for separate ailments at the same hospital. One is mistakenly treated with a medication intended for the other patient—and has a serious reaction to the drug. Patient mix-ups are all-too-frequent occurrences at many hospitals across the U.S., leading to redundant tests, wrong diagnoses, incorrect treatment services and unnecessary hospitalizations – while increasing costs.