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• 5 Ways Health IT Shackles Physicians

  7/6/2016

  It seems every week there’s another study documenting the problems physicians have with healthcare IT. The findings invariably are consistent with what the AMA has been saying for the past several years — physicians overwhelmingly dislike EHR systems’ poor usability and interoperability, and resent the extra time they have to spend at the keyboard.

• Collaboration, Coordination, And Data Can Solve Many Healthcare Challenges

  6/15/2020

  There is one thing about American healthcare on which most of us agree: It needs work. Stories from friends about an outrageously priced prescription drug or a hometown hospital closing its doors put a face on the facts: U.S. per capita healthcare spending is almost twice the average of other wealthy, developed countries, yet the United States performs poorly in common health metrics like life expectancy and unmanaged diabetes.

• Accessible Healthcare: Welcoming Mobility Into The Fold

  1/5/2017

  Mobile lies at the heart of digital healthcare, spearheading a future of integrated and connected care delivery. By 2018, it’s predicted 50 percent of the 3.4 billion smartphone and tablet users are expected to gain access to mobile health applications. This includes an increasing number of healthcare professionals, consumers, and patients as remote health monitoring devices and mobile apps help update patient records with real-time information, drive timely notifications, and provide critical insights to both providers and patients.

• Cows, Butterflies, And The 4 D's Of Digital Success In Healthcare

  11/27/2018

  Getting to “easy” is extremely hard – Dr. Graham Hughes details the four steps healthcare organizations must follow for successful digital initiatives.

• OCR Audits To Focus On Risk Assessments, Business Associates

  3/28/2017

  By any estimate, 2016 was a terrible year for healthcare data breaches and the numbers that back that claim up are staggering. By Manolito Jones, Healthcare Solutions Team Leader at LockPath

• UPMC Scales Its Network With SDN

  3/6/2020

  Healthcare provider and insurer, UPMC is the largest non-governmental employer in the state of Pennsylvania. It operates 40 academic, community and specialty hospitals, 700 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites and offers an array of rehabilitation, retirement and long-term facilities. For UPMC’s IT department that means a lot of add moves and changes to administer and, with a 12 percent average annual growth rate, a lot of new users and branch offices to add. Before adopting SDN in its data centers and SD-WAN for branch connectivity, scaling UPMC’s network was a costly part of the business.