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• Countering HAIs And Superbugs At VA Health Facilities With Surveillance And Innovation

  8/10/2017

  The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning about the enormous threat antibiotic resistant “superbugs” pose to public health. By Diane Ratner, Senior Product Line Manager, DSS, Inc.

• Never Argue With The Data: How A Cartoon Predicted Amazon's Future In Healthcare

  10/1/2018

  Beginning in 2002 and ending a scant four years later, the animated series “The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius” followed the exploits of Jimmy and his none-too-bright buddy Sheen. And while the animators and writers may not have realized it at the time, they had the prescience to predict Amazon’s ascent to healthcare prominence, or dominance, depending on how you look at it.

• Healthcare's 5 Most Exploitable Cyberattack Vectors And How To Secure Them

  7/10/2017

  Hospitals and healthcare organizations are among the most vulnerable enterprises to security attacks. Why? Not only are they a lucrative target for attackers with critical information on the line and downtime risks dangerously high, they also are home to a unique set of security attack vectors. By Jerry Hook, system architect and director of Microsoft platforms, Veristor

• Why Enterprise Analytics Should Be More Like A Book, Less Like A Spotify Playlist

  3/23/2020

  People like stories. We like to tell them. We like to read them. Enterprise analytics is the story of a healthcare organization. Just like the chapters in a book, enterprise analytics takes “readers” from the beginning to the end, from chapter to chapter without interruption. Whether organizations are ready, enterprise analytics is the future of healthcare: It can bring together data about finances, operations, medical assessments, the revenue cycle and more.

• Picking The Right Data Tools Is Key To Success In Value-Based Care

  12/5/2016

  Value-based healthcare is patient-centric, meaning how patients feel about their own conditions — including quality of life and care satisfaction — should be integral parts of their healthcare data set. By Andrew Clement is the director of operations at OBERD

• Encounter Submissions Lifecycle: The “Last Mile” And Why Accurate Data Is So Critical

  2/4/2020

  Health plans participating in government programs are reimbursed in financial payments based on the encounter data they submit. Simple enough, right? A provider submits a claim to the health plan, the health plan verifies service and payments are made. Unfortunately, there’s more to it.