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• A White Paper About EMR Workflow, Usability, And Productivity In Pediatric And Primary Care

  9/30/2009

  “A high-volume, low-margin business like primary care medicine simply cannot support the costs. These include both the very high dollar cost of buying and maintaining a system and the huge drop in productivity that initially accompanies implementation.” By Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS
• Cybercrime Is Bad For Your Health

  5/18/2016

  Hardly a week goes by without a hospital, healthcare provider or health insurer falling prey to some form of ransomware — a big problem that is only getting bigger. Leading hospitals such as Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, MedStar Health’s Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and Methodist Hospital in Henderson, KY have fallen victim to these attacks. The recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) saw ransomware attacks rise 16 percent overall this year and, according to Brookings Center for Technology Innovation study, 23 percent of all data breaches occurred in healthcare, tripling over the last two years alone.

• Top Payer Priorities For 2020: Optimizing Operating Costs And Boosting Network Efficiency

  1/13/2020

  The health plan market is undergoing a drastic transformation. In the past, the competition had been lean with just a small number of payers. However, the market dynamics are changing. Since 2017, the number of MA plan choices per county has increased by 49 percent. The competition is said to grow even more in the coming years as more health plans are set to enter the market, owing to the fact that nearly 26 million baby boomers will age into Medicare through 2030.

• How The Section 1557 Ruling Affects Language Access In Healthcare

  2/20/2017

  This past year, new standards under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act went into effect. This new regulation prohibits discrimination in certain health programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability and reinforces the assertion healthcare institutions are required to provide meaningful access to individuals needing communication assistance. In order to be compliant with the new standards, federally funded healthcare institutions are required to provide “language assistance services” for LEP patients. Kathryn Jackson, vice president of Language Operations, Stratus Video

• No Time To Waste: Why Automation Will Shape The Future Of IoMT Security

  7/27/2020

  In cybersecurity, speed is the name of the game. And in the current climate of adaptation to fast-changing conditions, organizations of all kinds are learning hard lessons of what it will take to survive and succeed in IT’s tomorrow. This is especially true in healthcare where the ability to act fast is essential in dealing with health crises, which also includes adversarial threats to network and data security.

• White Paper: Tips On Wandering Alzheimer's Patients

  11/30/2009

  It is suggested that nearly 70% of people with Alzheimer’s disease will wander away from home and get lost. Wandering is one of the biggest risks for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and is a common but dangerous symptom of the disease. A wanderer is someone with a disease such as Alzheimer’s who has wandered away on their own free-will from their caregiver. By Karen Cinpinski, Accutech-ICS