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• New Best Practices In Patient Data Transfer For EMTALA Support

  4/13/2018

  The Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) stipulates that if an individual comes to an emergency treatment facility in need of care, the hospital must either treat the individual to stabilize the medical condition or transfer the individual to a facility that can treat the condition. In any event, a hospital must provide medical care, regardless of the individual’s insurance status or ability to pay.

• Breaches Are All Over The Place. And, So Is Your Cybersecurity Tech Stack

  2/15/2019

  Healthcare systems have built out increasingly complex and overlapping technology stacks. For many years, the focus has been on electronic health records (EHR) systems – how to streamline solutions and achieve interoperability. But, in 2019, the industry needs to turn its attention to cybersecurity solutions.

• Behind The Scenes Of A Data Breach

  11/29/2017

  In today’s security landscape, it’s not a matter of if a company will be attacked, rather the question is when. Forrester Research reports that 49 percent of global network security decision-makers have experienced at least one breach during the past 12 months. Research shows the average company loses $141 per compromised record, with the greatest loss in the healthcare industry as $380 is lost per each compromised record – not to mention the legal implications when patient data becomes at risk.

• Text Messaging Is Disrupting Healthcare In Unexpected Ways

  12/6/2018

  The method of communication has already had major impacts on the healthcare industry and increased the level of access patients have with their providers, but the changes are just beginning. With more advancements and adoption of mobile technology in every aspect of patients’ lives, texting still has the potential to radically change the healthcare process.

• Women's Equality Day: Reflecting On What We've Accomplished And Where We're Going

  8/28/2019

  In honor of National Women’s Equality Day, we spoke to several women in the tech industry to learn how they’re working to level the playing field and breaking the glass ceiling.

• How EHRs Are Evolving To Support Value-Based Care

  9/20/2018

  Can one of the technologies most associated with the fee-for-service era – the EHR – reinvent itself for the very different requirements of value-based care? We regularly convene leaders from specialty practices nationwide to discuss their value-based care progress and recently posed this question to an audience representing more than 530 oncologists. More than two-thirds of respondents either said that their EHR was not ready, or they did not know whether it was ready, to accommodate “alternative payment models, bundles, or other innovative payment methodologies.”