EHR / EMR Case Studies & White Papers
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The Case For Online Self-Scheduling
11/7/2016
Practices can save time and increase convenience for patients and staff with electronic self-scheduling solutions.
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A Data-Driven Approach To Better Care Visits
10/25/2016
The push to deliver greater value is prompting healthcare organizations to closely examine their clinical and financial processes in search of ways to boost efficiency, improve accuracy, and elevate the patient experience. With this in mind, First Care Clinic, a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient centered medical home located in rural Kansas, set out to retool one of its critical processes — the patient care visit.
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EMR Adoption: Usability, Security Gaps Resolved Through ECM Integration
10/19/2016
The future of EHRs has been a topic of heavy discussion and debate. The world many anticipated coming from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems is beginning to take shape, but due to the limitations of many practice-and hospital-based systems it is not exactly the future everyone envisioned. By HK Bain, CEO, Digitech Systems
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Unified Reimbursement Strategy: Implementing Common Ground Among Next-Generation Reimbursement And Quality Systems
10/12/2016
We may look back on the 25-year span following the change of the millennium as one of the most densely populated periods of healthcare regulation ever seen in the history of the United States. Every year, individual clinicians, private practices, and health systems are bombarded with new coding, compliance, quality, and reimbursement models, making staying ahead of the curve in terms of overall strategy nearly impossible. Executives, physicians, and healthcare experts would probably agree that it is impossible to maintain a status quo level of performance if your strategy is one of pure reaction to each new deadline from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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To Click or Not to Click — That Is The Question: How To Avoid Or Rapidly Recover From Data Breaches
9/29/2016
Information can be one’s greatest ally, but for many organizations it can also become public enemy #1. The healthcare industry has learned this the hard way in 2016 as it has increasingly fallen victim to a series of ransomware attacks.
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“To Click Or Not To Click … That Is The Question”
9/2/2016
Information can be one’s greatest ally, but for many organizations it can also become public enemy # 1. The healthcare industry has learned this the hard way in 2016 as it has increasingly fallen victim to a series of ransomware attacks.
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Healthcare IT In The Public Cloud
8/29/2016
Public clouds such as AWS, Azure and others are becoming more attractive because of scalability, agility, features, speed to market, etc. But the key challenge becomes how to best maintain security and compliance. There are two broad approaches available – using internal staff to manage the cloud (a DIY approach) or working with cloud managed service provider.
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5 Risks Hospitals Face When Using The Public Cloud.. And How To Overcome Them
8/29/2016
Savvy healthcare organizations in need of greater IT infrastructure agility, performance, security, and compliance are exploring the benefits of public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The allure of on-demand cloud services combined with advances in cloud security have transformed the healthcare IT mindset from “Why move to the public cloud?” to “What should we move and how do we do it?”
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Terminology Requirements For Meaningful Use, Stages 1 Through 3
8/15/2016
This chart outlines electronic health record (EHR) requirements in the Meaningful Use program that necessitate consideration for healthcare terminologies. Although the Meaningful Use program is near its end, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will continue to strengthen requirements for documenting, standardizing and sharing data within, and amongst, EHRs through other programs such as Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) payments, the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Alternative Payment Models (APMs) – including accountable care programs – and others.
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5 Risks Hospitals Face When Using The Public Cloud (And How To Overcome Them)
8/15/2016
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are in the midst of a digital revolution that’s forcing them to change their traditional ways of capturing, storing, and sharing information. To keep up with their needs for greater IT infrastructure agility, performance, security, and compliance, many savvy healthcare organizations are exploring the benefits of the public cloud.