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• IT Infrastructure: A Foundation For Accountable Care Organizations

  8/11/2011

  The advent of healthcare reform will require a health information technology infrastructure that integrates all the “moving parts” of an ACO, including hospitals, physicians, labs, outpatient centers, claims and analytics.
• Healthcare Organizations Need To Think Big When It Comes To Cloud

  9/25/2018

  The fact is, we’re living in what is now being called a multi-cloud world—one that is brought on by the convergence of market drivers with organizational initiatives that are fueling digital transformation. A few that top the list include building out the connected health ecosystem through the expansion of mobile and IoT devices and Big Data for genomics and molecular medicine collaborations. The initiatives, when coupled with new value-based care initiatives, bring together both internal and external players in the industry through mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

• Case Study: DeKalb Medical Center Secures Patient Data With Proofpoint

  11/15/2009

  As a medical center, DeKalb Medical Center is very sensitive about patient privacy. Recently, the organization conducted an audit of its data security and determined that outbound email was a high-risk area for protected health information (PHI) to leave the enterprise. As a first step, the medical center needed to secure its outbound email stream to ensure that PHI was not being sent out unencrypted. By Proofpoint
• Solving The Patient Loyalty Puzzle

  9/28/2018

  Most health system leaders know not to take patient loyalty for granted. But they might be surprised at just how fickle healthcare consumers can be. The truth is, despite how much progress organizations have made in enhancing the patient experience, patients are only about as loyal to their healthcare providers as they are to their mobile phone plans.

• Patient Privacy: 6 Steps To Ensure HIPAA Compliance

  9/17/2019

  Technology is at the forefront of much of the innovation within the healthcare industry. New advancements are improving everything from patient care procedures to information availability, but many companies are struggling to manage the ancillary side effects of this rapid digitalization.

• Living With Big Data: A 360° View Of Patients

  4/28/2016

  The digital revolution in healthcare is well under way. As physicians have been more apt to use electronic medical records (EMRs) and pharma companies and medical researchers are now using electronic databases to hold and protect their data, healthcare holds and manages some of the most complex and contextually rich data sets of any industry. However, using that data to its fullest capacity to make intelligent clinical decisions at the point of care continues to be a pain point facing hospitals and health systems.