FEATURED CONTENT

• The Point Of Care Ecosystem – 4 Benefits Of A Fully Connected Outpatient Experience

  2/6/2017

  This white paper from Midmark is the first in a series that defines the outpatient point of care ecosystem and examines how the key components that comprise it – such as interpersonal communication, patient education, patient and family conveyance, vitals acquisition, wait times, patientcaregiver interaction, and even data collection and documentation – have an impact on the patient experience.

• How HIT Can Fix Hospitals With Too Many Patients And Not Enough Staff

  1/27/2020

  Generally speaking, healthcare costs in the U.S. are high — but the problem goes beyond treatment costs. Poor patient outcomes drive up the price tag significantly, and a big part of the problem is that healthcare organizations are overpopulated with patients while understaffed with qualified providers.

• Trust-Farming Reality Of Modern Medical Portals

  2/27/2018

  In the digital age, Internet opinion is the benchmark when it comes to choosing competitive services or goods. Medical web portals, complex by nature, have to keep up with the reality, whilst healthcare providers are wondering how to transform medical portals into the platforms for trust-building interaction with current and prospective service consumers.

• 5 Patient Engagement Lessons From Outside Healthcare

  1/31/2017

  We call it patient engagement; everyone else calls it customer relationship management By Raj Toleti, CEO of HealthGrid

• HIPAA Celebrates A Birthday: COVID-19, HIPAA, And Your Rights

  8/6/2020

  As August 21, 2020 marks the 24th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s HIPAA Law, it is not a bad time to reflect on how the law has been doing. As with any big changes in healthcare, whether the advent of Electronic Health Systems (EHRs) in the past decade or a pandemic like COVID-19, nothing stays the same. All laws, rules, and regulations occasionally need some breathing room and this also applies to HIPAA. Here is an update on HIPPA changes and some examples of what not to do.

• Workplace Safety A Growing Challenge In The Healthcare Industry

  10/25/2017

  Countless systems and processes exist to ensure patient safety — from data privacy to medication checks to infection prevention. Hospital admission means being hooked up to at least one monitoring device, and nurses regularly check vital signs. By Manolito Jones, Healthcare Solutions Team Leader, LockPath