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• For Hospitals, Predictive Analytics Is A Necessity, Not A Luxury

  11/10/2017

  When thinking about the business value of predictive analytics, hospitals often view it as an evolutionary technology and look for things like use cases, accuracy, cost, and return on investment. While those are all valid points to consider, a better way to look at it is to focus on what truly matters for patients and caregivers, work backwards, and explore how predictive analytics can make them better. Having worked with dozens of hospitals, I can tell you that — when viewed from this perspective — the answer is predictive analytics is a necessity, not a luxury.

• The Budding Healthcare IT Spring

  3/12/2012

  The basic healthcare delivery system is changing, and three pillars for profound and irreversible change within the industry have been expressed by some of the industry leaders. By Rick Dakin, CEO, co-founder and chief security strategist, Coalfire Systems
• Why Virtual Care Is The “New” Telehealth

  6/8/2018

  The term “telehealth” may soon be obsolete. Although telehealth has come a long way since the first radiologic images were sent via telephone in 1948, the delivery of care via telehealth is undergoing a seismic shift as healthcare organizations, providers, and patients are embracing virtual care. As the next generation of telehealth, virtual care “goes beyond” traditional telehealth by helping healthcare organizations improve care delivery, optimize workflows, and enhance patient engagement, while avoiding excess costs.

• Protecting Physician Practices From Cybertheft Takes More Than A Do-It-Yourself Approach

  1/23/2018

  Protecting patient data has become as important as protecting patients’ lives in an era of increased cybersecurity threats in healthcare, particularly for physician practices, which are especially vulnerable to attack.

• Mobility Delivers Powerful Possibilities

  10/31/2014

  As the computer form factor shrank from the size of a room to a laptop, computing mobility finally became a reality. For over a decade, the laptop continued to shrink while increasing in performance and lowering in price. Mobility became synonymous with portability. However, with the advent of the smart phone, mobility now transcends a single product category and has morphed into an experience. Over a short five years, mobility has become synonymous with easy, convenient, enabling, engaging, meaningful, connected, and accessible. Mobility is no longer a material thing, but rather it’s the picture of a three-year-old playing their favorite game on their tablet while at their brother’s soccer game. It’s taking a spontaneous video of our kids playing in the pool and sharing it with their cousins in Europe. Mobility is an experience that fits naturally into our daily lives while delivering powerful, improved possibilities – PeriOperative Medicine is no exception. By Jeffrey Zavaleta, MD, CMO, Graphium Health

• Are You Fully Leveraging Your EHR Investment?

  6/14/2012

  Failing to account for records created before the launch of a new system creates two methods of patient care – one using an automated platform, and one that requires costly, inefficient file storage and paper pushing. It’s the worst of both worlds.