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• Why Email Encryption Is Crucial In The EHR Age

  8/25/2011

  This article uncovers the vulnerabilities inherent in email communication and why email encryption is crucial to protecting PHI in this era of EHR ubiquity. By Daniel Stevens, Chief Executive Officer, Send Technology Inc.
• Patient Privacy: 6 Steps To Ensure HIPAA Compliance

  9/17/2019

  Technology is at the forefront of much of the innovation within the healthcare industry. New advancements are improving everything from patient care procedures to information availability, but many companies are struggling to manage the ancillary side effects of this rapid digitalization.

• The State Of Value-Based Care: Improving Care Quality While Reducing Medical Costs

  8/14/2018

  Results from the third biennial study “Finding the Value: The State of Value-Based Care in 2018” conducted by ORC International show value-based care models are doing what they were designed to do: improve care quality while reducing medical costs. Yet, these results also show payers and providers still have work to do in order to optimize these programs. Included below are the study’s top 10 findings along with related insights on how to push the industry forward.

• Are Your Clinicians Fed Up Don't Blame Your Technology (Yet)

  8/13/2015

  If your clinicians are raising pitchforks over your hospital’s technology, don’t panic and spend big on brand-new applications and systems, expecting a quick fix. More often than not, buying your way to greener pastures is impossible. Why? Well, your hospital’s technology usually isn’t the problem at all. When user adoption is poor and clinicians constantly complain, every issue feels like a technology issue, especially in resource-strapped community healthcare organizations. In reality, though, most of the technology problems that your clinicians complain about are actually process problems in disguise. Here’s a crash course on identifying and categorizing common hospital workflow issues. By Phil Stravers, ICE Technologies

• The Importance Of Business Rules In Actionable Healthcare Data

  9/15/2016

  Healthcare organizations are wrestling with the imperative to harness information from their internal IT systems to increase operational inefficiency and improve patient outcomes. By George Dealy, Vice President of Healthcare Applications at Dimensional Insight

• Heal Thyself — Preventing Viruses And Ransomware Attacks

  8/19/2016

  Healthcare professionals need to spend time focusing on patient care, not technology. They need mission-critical applications to just work — quickly and reliably. Unfortunately, IT wellness, so to speak, faces a new and growing threat, one that can cripple entire healthcare organizations, impact patient care, and lead to costly system repairs. That threat is ransomware and related malware.