Featured Content
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Guest Column: Lobbying For Increased Imaging IT Recognition: One Goal, Multiple Tactics
8/18/2010
While ARRA incentives are placing increased focus on EHRs, this article explains why embracing imaging IT functionality as part of the meaningful use is crucial. By Henri ‘Rik’ Primo, director of marketing and strategic relationships, SYNGO Americas at Siemens Healthcare
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Anatomy Of A Healthcare Data Breach
10/14/2014
The statistics on healthcare data breaches is growing increasingly troublesome. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, healthcare data breaches accounted for 44 percent of all breach- es in 2013—the first time the healthcare sector topped this list. Perhaps the main reason for such a large proportion is because personal health information (PHI) is worth roughly 50 times more than credit card or Social Security numbers. The most profitable type of fraud stemming from identity theft is now Medicare fraud. The annual cost of health data breaches estimated at $5.6 Billion.
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Tablet-Based Mobile Carts Drive EHR Engagement
12/20/2013
As health systems and eligible healthcare professionals transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 Meaningful Use to meet the 2014 reporting deadline, they are often faced with having to find innovative solutions to satisfy the new objectives and reporting requirements. Some of the core objectives of Stage 2 specifically address engaging patients with their medical records.
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eBook: It All Starts With A Data Warehouse
3/27/2014
Why the Healthcare Data Warehouse Will Become the Critical Foundational Platform for Analytics Success in the Upcoming Healthcare Transformation Environment.
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The Role Of Telehealth In An Integrated Health Delivery System
6/12/2013
Against the changing landscape of healthcare reform, healthcare organizations in the United States are focused on achieving the industry’s identified “Triple Aim” goals of improving patient care, and population health while reducing overall healthcare costs.
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Addressing HIPAA Security And Privacy Requirements In The Microsoft Cloud
6/13/2013
Organizations operating in the healthcare industry are continuously under pressure to use resources as efficiently as possible. They must provide innovation in patient care products and services enabled by advances in IT, and do so while maintaining compliance with an increasing burden of privacy and security regulations such as those posed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH).
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Overlooking Little “C” Coders Puts ICD-10 At Risk
12/3/2012
Hospitals should leave no stone unturned in their 2013 implementation plans. Practically every department houses staff that use codes day-in and day-out. They are the ones hording worn and torn cheat sheets and outdated coding books. These are a hospital’s little “c” coders and they can’t be overlooked!
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Guest Column: Understanding RTLS In Healthcare
6/9/2010
The basic supposition of a Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) is that people and objects can be located within a facility using a system of badges and tags that communicate with a sensory network. By HT Snowday, CTO, Versus Technology
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Cottage Health Care Establishes System-Wide eSignature Program
1/31/2013
Many healthcare facilities are faced with workflow crisis. The challenge is streamlining documentation, which includes admission consent forms. As a result, Cottage Health System has installed McKesson’s Horizon Patient Folder (HPF), the industry leader of archiving systems.
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OPEX 7200i Video
7/6/2010
The world's most efficient out-of-the-envelope scanning platform has just evolved. Introducing the OPEX AS7200i high-volume production scanner with integrated mail extraction.