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• Guest Column: Improving Physician Satisfaction With EMRs

  4/1/2011

  This article describes how medical facilities are using 'discrete reportable transcription' with electronic medical records to help maintain the doctor's traditional workflow. By Randy Olver, CEO, Emdat, Inc.
• The Ever-Changing Landscape Of Health IT And What's In Store This Year

  2/13/2018

  As Spring approaches and temperatures begin to rise, the shift in season often spurs vision for the unfolding year — building on the previous year’s achievements. While 2017 alone brought much change, the progress in healthcare technology over the past five years is enormous. With expanding deployments and more sophisticated use of telehealth and EHRs, healthcare organizations across the country are evolving at a rapid pace to provide an enhanced level of care and more convenient communications to patients.

• Patients To Healthcare Providers: Text Us

  7/2/2018

  If you are like many Americans who send and receive text messages on a daily basis, here is a question: Who do you exchange texts with? Friends and family likely top the list. And possibly co-workers. What about businesses or service providers? Many healthcare providers are surprised to learn patients would like to communicate with them by texting. Then again, texting has grown to become one of the most popular forms of communication, so there shouldn’t be any doubt about whether patients want to text with their providers.

• Head To Head: EHR With Responsive Patient Portal Vs. An EHR-Integrated Custom Mobile App

  10/21/2016

  When considering patient communication tools, patient portals are an obvious choice as they are proposed and incentivized by CMS. By Lola Koktysh, Healthcare Industry Analyst, ScienceSoft

• Data Management At North America's First Fully Digital Hospital

  5/19/2016

  Humber River Hospital has established an impressive history of firsts in patient care and service, including establishing Ontario’s first Center of Excellence for laparoscopic bariatric surgery, first nocturnal dialysis program, and first community hospital in Canada to acquire and use a surgical robot. Similarly, Humber River Hospital leveraged BridgeHead’s expertise with MEDITECH to provide backup for the hospital’s MEDITECH environment. Having partnered with MEDITECH since 2001, today BridgeHead is the company’s solo vendor in the market with a data protection and management solution.

• Why Build When You Can Buy? -- Considering A White Labelled Telemedicine Solution

  7/23/2019

  Telemedicine is one of the fastest growing sectors of the healthcare industry. How fast? In 2015, about 1 million patients used a telemedicine service; over the next three years, that number grew to 7 million. And many industry experts expect 2019 to be the “tipping point” at which telemedicine truly scales up across all areas of healthcare.