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4 Healthcare Industry Predictions For 2017
9/23/2016
As 2016 comes to a close, recollections from 2016 and predictions for 2017 will begin to fill up your email inbox and the pages of your favorite publications. While policy wonks in different domains wax poetically about foreign relations, the economy, and military spending, I wanted to pay homage to the healthcare industry by offering a few predictions of my own. By Todd Bennett, Director, Vertical Market, LexisNexis Health Care
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White Paper: Going Green? Choose ECM
6/21/2010
A growing concern for the environment and the adoption of low-impact and sustainable practices are not new in the business world. Organizations continue to actively seek out earth-friendly initiatives to cut down on wasteful processes that are harmful to the environment. By Perceptive Software
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ValleyCare On Today In America With Terry Bradshaw
9/2/2015
See ValleyCare On Today In America With Terry Bradshaw.
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Collaborative Portal Decisions That Make “Cents”: Reducing TCO By 50% Or More With SaaS Solutions
11/6/2014
Traditionally, large IT organizations have utilized their resources to design, build and launch new applications within their datacenters using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software. This was considered the primary function of IT. IT built these solutions from the ground up, with the customizations to meet the needs of the organization and with the intent of creating a competitive advantage. Many of these needs are common across different enterprises, and the SaaS market has now created solutions to address these common requirements.
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How To Maximize Chronic Care Management Successes
11/2/2017
The product of a 2015 CMS rule, Chronic Care Management enables physicians to capture $42 per Medicare patient, per month, for providing at least 20 minutes of non-face-to-face care management such as coordinating care with other providers. In many cases, CCM enables physicians to be paid for services they’re currently providing for free. The capabilities required to provide the full CCM scope of service can also improve performance in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
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Does Android Dream Of Enterprise Adoption
8/15/2012
This white paper from MaaS360 by Fiberlink discusses the effect of the Android operating system on IT staffs as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is quickly growing.
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Compliance, Data, And Success In A Complex CIN/ACO World
3/29/2019
As CINs/ACOs expand as a strategy for value-based care, these organizations depend ever more heavily on data – and the expertise to gather, manage and use it – to achieve success. Part 1 of this two-part series, Knock Down Barriers and Achieve CIN/ACO Success, detailed the significant data challenges for integrated delivery systems that include separately owned legal entities. Part 2 outlines how health systems with an owned ACO/CIN provide the usable data, clinical support, proof of compliance, and strategic guidance required for an unwavering focus on care quality and patient experience. While simple to say, only the select few have mastered providing the right care in the right place at the right time – the holy grail for delivering high quality care at lower cost.
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NLP, AI, And Machine Learning: Complementary Technologies For Advancing Patient Care
7/17/2017
For the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) — especially natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning — has been a hot topic in healthcare as vendors, researchers, and providers consider ways to leverage technology to transform medical research and clinical care. By Simon Beaulah, Senior Director of Healthcare, Linguamatics
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Improving Patient Safety With Integrated Forms Automation And Barcoding
12/29/2009
There is no way to quantify the emotional impact on patients and their families resulting from erroneous or inadequate care delivered because of patient identification mistakes. However, it is possible to objectively assess the number of reported incidents and the number of patients affected.
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Why Leading Hospitals Are Practicing IT Automation
2/23/2018
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are reaping the benefits of IT Automation for a number of business, operational and data management processes. For instance, IT Automation can provide functionality that enables building workflows faster and more reliably, improving coordination of disparate technologies and tools used by various internal departments, third party providers and vendors, and provides a cohesive approach with increased efficiency.