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• Mobilizing Patient Engagement: Developers Leverage New Tools For Health Data Activation

  6/2/2016

  The latest Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey of more than 4,000 hospitals once again showed there is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to patient engagement, especially in terms of receiving the right information at the right time about medications and care transitions.

• What's Your Strategy When HIPAA-Protected Data Literally Flies Out the Window?

  9/21/2016

  User frustration with technology is one thing. But aggravations that turn into veritable threats to data security? Those tend to be a touch more serious. And safeguarding all the places sensitive data ends up gets seemingly more complex by the year, thanks to the bevy of laptops, phones, and tablets we employees need to get our work done (whether those are company-issued devices or not). By Cam Roberson, Director of the Reseller Channel, Beachhead Solutions

• The Total Cost Of Not Managing Outsourced Vendors

  12/13/2017

  Before high-deductible health plans and the expansion of IRS and CFPB engagement in patient finance, managing uninsured accounts and patients with responsibility after insurance was relatively straightforward.

• Tech, Personalized Care, And Population Health Brighten The Future For Diabetes Patients

  1/22/2020

  Nearly 30 million Americans are diabetic, and up to 90 percent of them have Type 2 diabetes. According to the NIH, the cost of treating and managing the disease reached $408 billion in 2015 and could expand to $622 billion by 2030. Although this trend is concerning, there’s hope: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a 35 percent drop in newly diagnosed diabetes cases since 2009 and a long-running plateau in the number of existing cases. Any decline is encouraging, but the public health initiatives helping to stem the tide ultimately won’t be enough to make a lasting impact on the lives of diabetic patients.

• 5 Reasons Healthcare Organizations Must Consider AI/ML

  8/24/2018

  Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML, respectively) are the technologies du jour. IT and product teams are applying AI and ML solutions to everything from robotics to refrigerators, everywhere machines produce performance and/or environmental data. But how can AI and ML benefit healthcare equipment maintenance, not typically viewed as a hotbed of innovation? In fact, there is an abundance of ways AI and ML can bring new levels of revenue increases and cost savings to healthcare organizations by rapidly creating new, actionable insights for maintenance teams.

• Transitioning Release Of Information Workflow From Silos To Enterprise: A Primer For The Healthcare Industry

  3/15/2017

  Healthcare systems across the country are inundated daily by an enormous amount of record requests from patients, attorneys, care providers, payers, government agencies, and other third parties. By Marty McKenna, Chief Executive Officer, Verisma Systems, Inc.