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• Medical Practice Reclaims Space Once Used For Paper Records, Adding Room For Teaching And Patient Care

  12/2/2010

  In a unique blend of the old and the new, innovative Australian specialist orthopaedic surgeon Dr. George Murrell has worked with Motion Computing’s Tablet PC technology to create a cutting-edge paperless medical practice in a renovated old church in southern Sydney. By Motion Computing, Inc.

• Lowering The HIT Footprint By Endpoint Modernization

  9/18/2018

  Healthcare providers, working with tight operating margins, face a classic horns-of-the-dilemma scenario: they must continue to grow their business, and to do so, they must remain competitive in their level of service. This necessitates a refresh of IT technology and a resultant uptick in budget, at a time when overall operational costs continue to rise. All these pressures are felt at the endpoint, and more so now that doctors and nurses are using multiple devices and often traveling to varied locations during a work week. Providing a secure, consistent user experience at the endpoint – one that contributes to quality of care - is now more important than ever.

• Mastering The Item Master – Data Governance In Healthcare

  5/2/2019

  Value-based care places many demands on health systems, most notably the importance of having a data governance strategy. Your data governance strategy should include data sources used by the EMR/EHR, ERP, MMIS, and financials systems. In many healthcare settings, the facility’s MMIS Item Master is the common data source used throughout the facilities systems and business processes, thus putting incredible pressure on the item master to be as accurate as possible. Vizient research shows that roughly 30 percent of the average item master contains bad data. (Vizient, 2018) As inferred above, the item master can impact multiple areas within a hospital. Areas most affected include purchasing, inventory management, clinical decision support, quality management, surgical supply documentation, value analysis, EMR documentation and third-party reimbursements to name a few, are all effected by the data you populate in the item master.

• 4 Changes Coming To The Medical Device Market

  1/28/2019

  The medical device market is constantly evolving, and 2019 will be no different. Here are four possible changes that healthcare providers and device manufacturers should be aware of.

• Executing A Successful Go-Live In A Short-Staffed Environment Requires Planning And Support

  9/11/2017

  Only 29 percent of today’s hospitals have fully staffed IT departments even though EHR optimizations or new implementations remain the second-highest priority for these organizations for the next 12 months, according to the latest HIMSS leadership survey. By Dan O’Connor, vice president of client relations, Stoltenberg Consulting

• Year-Over-Year In Healthcare: What Have We Learned?

  3/23/2016

  What has changed in healthcare within the past year? While preparing for and winding down from HIMSS16, I asked myself that very question. The industry’s most important event is not only a gathering of the leading organizations, powerful minds, and emerging technologies, it is also an opportunity for us to benchmark our progress and see where we are compared to where we were. The changes that have occurred since 2015 highlight some significant transformations in the structure and focus of the industry.