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• Will HIMSS 18 Address The Disruption Of The Traditional Office Visit?

  2/12/2018

  Healthcare is evolving quickly and HIMSS 18 offers a broad range of healthcare issues to explore. New requirements for implementing HIT systems are changing as new health IT priorities and procedures emerge. Convergence in the health care sector is accelerating the need for interoperability, not just for EHRs, but also across clinical, financial, and operational systems. This need is also challenging and changing one of the biggest traditions in healthcare—the doctor-patient medical visit.

• The Value Of Change Management

  1/28/2020

  It’s 2020. A new year and new decade have arrived and they’re ushering in a greater desire for change—traditionally a thing many hospitals and health systems fear rather than embrace. The truth of the matter is, the technology needed to address many of the industry’s challenges (surprise billing, physician burnout, etc.) already exists in large measure. These advancements come with the potential to drive down costs and improve the patient experience.

• HIT, AI, And Machine Learning: A Reality Check

  4/16/2019

  In the healthcare IT space, there are two buzzwords du jour: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These concepts—which are often used interchangeably, but have distinct meanings—have been linked to everything from drastically changing future patient experiences (undoubtedly true) to completely replacing physicians with robots (not likely).

• White Paper: Age-In-Place Storage: When Not To Tier And Migrate Active Data

  11/12/2009

  We acknowledge the changes in file reference behavior are subtle, consistent, and complex. There are two ways to “look” at any file on a Unix file system4. The most common is with the file’s path and name, which is exactly what people and most programs do when they open or close a file as we look at a directory structure. Even so, names are not used to mange files. By Randy Chalfant
• Providing Accessible Medication Amid The Data Chaos

  1/13/2017

  With the creation of the 340B Drug Discount Program in 1992, the U.S government produced a new kind of marketplace, one designed to provide prescription medication to eligible healthcare organizations and their qualifying patients at significantly reduced prices. By Dave Brunswick, vice president of solution, Cleo

• Guest Column: Are Nurse Call Systems Dead?

  7/19/2011

  CEO, Andrew Rothon, looks at the unprecedented fundamental challenge faced by the Healthcare Industry. That is; how to cope with ever-increasing patient numbers in the face of rising operational costs and tight budgets? It’s a challenge that will continue for the rest of this decade. By Andrew Rothan, CEO, Next Intelligence Health, Inc.(NIQ)