FEATURED CONTENT

• Advanced Analytics Driving Healthcare Transformation

  12/28/2017

  The time has come … Everyone talks about Big Data’s potential to transform healthcare. They understand it’s needed to achieve the Triple Aim: improving patient outcomes, lowering cost of care, and increasing patient engagement. Yet there are very few tangible examples of organizations realizing this potential. One reason is our industry is historically slow to adopt change, even when we know what change needs to happen.

• The Healthcare Digital Backbone

  5/12/2015

  The healthcare industry is undergoing significant transformation with wellness and personal devices exponentially increasing the reach of what was termed as healthcare access in traditional terms. On the other hand, cost and regulatory compliance pressures are pushing for improved efficiency. While it is a paradigm shift from a consumer perspective, it does impose significant changes on the IT side as well. The B2C shift as well as evolving reimbursement models will result in innumerable changes in interactions. It is no more a provider administered IT interaction, but device and app based self-service. By Ashok Balasubramanian, Head, Services Transformation Group, Syntel

• Advancing Interoperability: The Need For Collaboration, Partnership, And Commitment

  5/12/2017

  The past 10 years has seen a rapid evolution of healthcare information technology. In 2007, only a small fraction of hospitals and physician practices used EHRs; now they’re almost ubiquitous, used by more than 87 percent of doctors and more than 94 percent of hospitals. Although the capture of digital information in EHRs is nearly ubiquitous, there are still opportunities to improve health information sharing capabilities as organizations strive to advance population health and further participate in value-based care.

• Healthcare Organizations Need To Get Serious About Managing Risk

  5/30/2019

  The healthcare industry is a high-pressure, life-impacting industry which can be made even more complicated by the growing number of regulatory requirements. Many of the most challenging mandates are focused on securing critical data and systems within the organizations infrastructure. If not secured properly, cyber threats can be the outcome and are usually associated with insufficient controls, employee risks and negligence.

• White Paper: Wireless Device Effectiveness In Treating Congestive Heart Failure

  3/25/2010

  There are approximately 5.3 million people suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF) in the United States. The lifetime risk of developing heart failure at the age of 40 is 20%, and approximately 380,000 people above the age of 65 will be diagnosed with CHF annually. By IDEAL LIFE, Inc.
• Purple Button Technology – A Means to Overcome the Patient Safety Epidemic

  5/29/2013

  Securely sharing patient safety information is critical to preventing adverse events. Purple Button technology helps hospitals do just that — from the patient bedside to the boardroom.