FEATURED CONTENT

• Big Data: The Right Prescription For Providers And Patients

  2/9/2016

  Big Data, aka the biggest challenge facing organizations everywhere, isn’t going away anytime soon. According to IBM, every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. To give you an idea of what that may look like, one terabyte alone is the equivalent of 4.5 million books — overwhelming to think about, especially for healthcare providers. From medical charts and prescriptions to financial and insurance information, patients generate a lot of data throughout their lifetimes. Some of that data is structured. However, even within sophisticated healthcare organizations, most of it — paper documents, ad hoc emails, data created through monitoring devices, for example — is not. As healthcare moves toward more of an evidence based model, data will play more of an instrumental role. Now more than ever, it’s important for healthcare providers to realize organizational success has less to do with how much data they gather and more to do with how data is utilized. By Andre Vandenberk, VP of Product Management and Lori Frampton, VP of Patient Flow Process Improvement & Data Analysis both of Medworxx, an Aptean Company

• 3 Ways IoT Improves Retail Healthcare Clinic Facility Management

  12/19/2018

  It almost goes without saying that healthcare clinics house complex equipment that must always function correctly in order to provide excellent patient care. Asset uptime and customer experience in healthcare are not “nice to have” measures – it can mean the difference between sickness and health or something even worse.

• 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.
• Retiring Legacy Applications: It's Not All About Cost

  5/10/2017

  From conversations with our customers, we know healthcare organizations, globally, are running up to 300 legacy applications behind the scenes despite their strategy for the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to be the primary method of accessing clinical content. Although there are significant costs associated with maintaining these legacy applications, this practice — somewhat worryingly — seems to be commonplace.

• Survey Says … Healthcare Providers Should Focus On The Patient Experience

  3/1/2018

  Not too long ago, patients did not have many choices when they needed to see a healthcare professional. There may not have been many options for covered practices close by, and patients tended to find a provider and stick with them forever. That’s not true anymore. Patients have easy access to all kinds of providers, right from their smart phone. If they aren’t happy with a particular practice, it takes little effort to find a new provider (or walk-in clinic or urgent care). 

• Mobile Messaging In Healthcare: 5 Myths Debunked

  8/16/2018

  The digital world is constantly evolving and healthcare technology is no different. With reports of some hospital doctors visiting up to 50 patients a day, clinicians are busier than ever. As a result, mobile messaging has become a popular way of communicating within healthcare organizations, as it offers a quick, accessible, and familiar solution that anyone with access to a smartphone can utilize.