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• Telehealth: The Platform Is Burning

  4/21/2020

  Leveraging your outpatient organization’s rapid implementation of telehealth for a long-term strategy to serve your patients. The rapid launch and/or acceleration of an existing telehealth program in light of COVID-19 is a matter of survival for your healthcare organization and your patients.

• A Case for Interoperability In Healthcare: Reduce Information Management Labor

  12/22/2014

  Today’s hospitals are filled with white-faced, exhausted, and worried men and women, which doesn’t inspire confidence for those who depend on them for care. Indeed, the workloads of nursing staff and physicians puts them at risk of becoming patients, rather than care providers, every day they set foot in the wards and consulting rooms. Severe staff shortages, budget cuts and a system stretched thin by efforts to reform, all take their toll on the population of medical professionals. By Konstantinos Klitsas, president, Talent Advisors, LLC

• Case Study: Duplicate Records Compromise EHR Investment

  12/29/2009

  Children’s Medical Center in Dallas made a major financial commitment to an EHR in 2001, but when the data from the old master patient index (MPI) was loaded into the new system, big problems arose. By Just Associates
• The True Potential Of Patient-Generated Health Data

  10/23/2019

  There is no doubt that aggregated health data will continue to shape the future of healthcare. There are vast amounts of data available in today’s society, and health researchers are tapping into it to advance medical science.

• How The New Connected Device Market Is Empowering Telehealth

  8/8/2018

  An exciting new category of connected health devices is emerging. It holds promise for disease management, remote care, and precision health. This new category blends two historically distinct worlds: 1) regulated medical devices, and 2) consumer wearables. The powerful combination of these two worlds offers patients and health-conscious consumers new solutions that marry the ease of use and wearability of consumer devices such as FitBit with the accuracy and quality of doctor-prescribed equipment like the Holter Monitor. What this new category of connected health devices enables is the ultimate goal in remote patient monitoring - the ability to offer the same level of medical quality found in hospitals to a patient at home.

• Ransomware: Cyber Crime's Billion-Dollar Industry

  5/22/2020

  Ransomware is one of the most notorious and destructive tools in a hackers’ arsenal, with companies falling victim to attacks every day. The threat is a type of malware that infects computer systems, identifies underlying data, and holds that data hostage by encrypting it until a ransom is paid. In the last year, the world has witnessed multiple high-profile attacks, including a series of government networks being brought to a standstill after they were infected. Today, ransomware has evolved into a real-world threat and any organization or individual has the potential to become a victim. However, one industry at particularly high risk is healthcare.