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• UMMC Streamlines EHR Workflow With Tablet Computers

  11/30/2011

  This case study outlines how the University Of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) was able to eliminate paper waste, streamline physician efficiency, improve patient interactions, and cut costs by integrating their EHR system with tablet computers.
• How Telemedicine Can Help Reduce Rural Hospital Closures And Provide Easier Access To Care

  8/31/2017

  Since 2010, more than 80 rural hospitals have closed across the U.S. while nearly 700 are still at risk. By Bobby Park, MD, Co-Founder & Director of Virtual Health, RelyMD

• How Outsourcing Can Improve MPI Data Integrity

  11/13/2019

  With budgets and resources shrinking, it makes sense to consider outsourcing MPI data remediation and maintenance to experts who can ensure it is done accurately and efficiently. Doing so not only frees up MPI resources to focus on other mission critical responsibilities, but it also helps healthcare organizations avoid the high clinical and operational costs incurred with duplicate records.

• 10 Security Risk Mitigation Strategies Every Healthcare Executive Should Know

  12/12/2014

  For the last four to five years, we have been blogging about the importance and details of proper security in your healthcare IT environment. We have been “preaching” the message of diligence and attention to detail as it relates to HIPAA and HITECH. Articles have started to shine a light on the realities of security risk in our healthcare IT environments. This is no longer a HIPAA compliance project where we check a few boxes, update a policy book, do some DVD based training, and expect that we have covered ourselves for the next audit. These risks are real and they can be extremely damaging to an organization if not kept in check. By Phil Stravers, CEO, Partner at ICE Technologies, Inc.

• The Global Pandemic Has Brought An Increase In External Threats. Still, The Insider Must Not Be Overlooked

  10/20/2020

  For some time, healthcare records and related data have included a wealth of information about a person – and that data, if not properly secured, can be sold on the Dark Web to enrich malicious adversaries. In fact, patient health information often fetches as much as $1,000 per record. When compared to other, more common personally identifiable information, like credit card data, which sells for between $12 - $20 per record, or email addresses, which often get sold in blocks of 1,000 for less than $100, you begin to understand why the healthcare industry increasingly finds itself a preferred target for cybercriminals: over the past decade, healthcare saw more than 2,100 data breaches.

• Technology Can Solve The Healthcare Industry's Employee Engagement Crisis

  6/29/2018

  When it comes to targeting optimum patient care, the healthcare industry has been a leader in visionary deployment of advanced technologies. But there’s one glaring area where this sector could benefit from an innovative technology solution: employee engagement. The healthcare industry has reached epidemic levels of disengagement, resulting in organizations struggling with issues such as absenteeism, poor attrition rates, loss of productivity, and business disruption. Unless the situation improves, the negative side effects of disengagement could have far more serious consequences for the healthcare industry, given that successful patient care outcomes are dependent on the engagement level of employees.