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• Cybersecurity And Healthcare: A Forecast For 2017

  3/16/2017

  Data breaches could be costing the healthcare $6.2 billion, and nearly 90 percent of the healthcare organizations covered in The Ponemon Institute’s May 2016 study endured a data breach in the past two years. By Tom Gilheany, Product Manager, Learning@Cisco

• The Key To Effective IT? Workflow Assessment

  3/29/2016

  Vendors typically sell healthcare IT solutions based on features and functionality, but don’t make the mistake of believing technology alone can maximize efficiencies. In reality, getting the most out of IT starts not by evaluating technical capabilities, but by analyzing workflows.

• The Identity Lifecycle Of Healthcare Workers: Improving Security And Access Management

  3/5/2019

  A survey by Compdata validates what healthcare organizations are experiencing everyday: one of the highest employee turnover rates in an overall job market whose turnover rate is going up every year. The 2018 survey shows healthcare at a total turnover rate of 20.4 percent, bracketed by hospitality, at 31.8 percent and manufacturing and distribution at 20 percent. The implications are clear for healthcare IT and security professionals – a significant part of their job is onboarding new personnel, revising access as personnel change roles, and securely offboarding employees to guard against risk.

• Data Analytics: Making Healthcare Healthy, Wealthy And Wise

  9/25/2015

  Today’s technology not only allows the storage of massive amounts of data, but also enables fast analysis and real-time pattern detection that improves clinical efficiency, care quality, affordability and policy making.

   

  Analytics are central to achieving the systematic quality improvements and cost reductions demanded by healthcare reform, but this new age of analytics requires a foundational set of analytical information systems that many executives have not anticipated. How will the healthcare industry leverage Big Data solutions? How can analytics be applied to data security challenges? Some industry players have successfully introduced a Healthcare Analytics and Research Framework to address some use cases that help improve outcomes and optimize costs. By Chetan Manjarekar, SVP and Head of Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG), Syntel, Inc.

• Imaging Moves Into The Mainstream

  7/28/2011

  Misperceptions about 2-D imagers are changing fast, which is why 2-D imagers are the fastest-growing category of bar code readers. Only a few years ago, 2-D imagers were (wrongly) considered a niche technology mostly used for reading 2-D bar codes. Now they are becoming the technology of choice for most bar code applications, and lasers are on the way to becoming a niche technology. By Intermec

• UMMC Streamlines EHR Workflow With Tablet Computers

  11/30/2011

  This case study outlines how the University Of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) was able to eliminate paper waste, streamline physician efficiency, improve patient interactions, and cut costs by integrating their EHR system with tablet computers.