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• White Paper: Flawed Human Behavior Could Threaten Success Of Stimulus EMR Incentive Program

  8/31/2009

  As someone involved in the digital document and content management business I have watched the approaching stimulus incentives for EMR (electronic medical records) with a great deal of interest. There’s no question that if implemented correctly the stimulus program can accelerate the adoption of more efficient (computer based) record management, resulting in improved health care and reduced costs. By Jeff Nelson
• The Healthcare Digital Backbone

  5/12/2015

  The healthcare industry is undergoing significant transformation with wellness and personal devices exponentially increasing the reach of what was termed as healthcare access in traditional terms. On the other hand, cost and regulatory compliance pressures are pushing for improved efficiency. While it is a paradigm shift from a consumer perspective, it does impose significant changes on the IT side as well. The B2C shift as well as evolving reimbursement models will result in innumerable changes in interactions. It is no more a provider administered IT interaction, but device and app based self-service. By Ashok Balasubramanian, Head, Services Transformation Group, Syntel

• Advances In mHealth: Remote Monitoring In Clinical Trials

  10/2/2017

  Remote monitoring – a key element of mHealth, where mobile solutions are used to deliver health – is becoming ubiquitous in the U.S. population. Some 60 percent of U.S. adults track their weight, diet, or exercise routine, and a recent Gartner forecast predicted that the overall wearable market would expand from 275 million devices in 2016 to 323 million devices in 2017. By Vincent Miller, Project Coordinator, Duke Clinical Research Institute

• 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
• Case Study: Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia

  9/23/2009

  Doctors are getting lab tests back faster, and that means they’re more efficient. They can ... accept more patients as a result. By Microsoft
• Achieving HIPAA Compliance: IT's Indispensable Role

  8/30/2017

  In my view, the IT vendor’s proper role is to showcase the powerful economic rationale for those in healthcare to get out of the practice of buying/maintaining hardware that is obsolete practically before the paint is dry. By Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual