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In The Pursuit Of Health, Community Will See Us Through
11/16/2020
Our society functions on the foundation of numerous social contracts: public education, civil liberties, fair taxes, criminal justice. The crises of this year have tested America’s social contracts in unprecedented ways and brought our nation to a time that will someday be reflected upon as a turning point. Yet our healthcare system, the importance of which we are now starkly reminded daily, persists outside the bounds of our social contracts—not fully embraced as a collective pursuit. Healthcare in America continues to be largely viewed as an institution citizens engage with on a very individualized level. We now face an opportunity to embrace a new take and work as a team to save lives.
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Improve Patient Safety With A Quality Wristband Solution
12/9/2010
Patient wristband quality and consistency depend heavily on the print technology, printer model and wristband material used. By Intermec, Inc.
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Case Study: Bar Code Enabled Point Of Care (BCPC), Realizing The Value Of Bar Codes In A Clinical Environment
9/7/2010
With the goal of moving toward the electronic medical record (EMR), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has advocated the use of bar codes in healthcare. Moreover, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has also proposed regulations that impact this issue.
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Cybersecurity And Healthcare: A Forecast For 2017
3/16/2017
Data breaches could be costing the healthcare $6.2 billion, and nearly 90 percent of the healthcare organizations covered in The Ponemon Institute’s May 2016 study endured a data breach in the past two years. By Tom Gilheany, Product Manager, Learning@Cisco
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The Lost Generation: Meeting The Communication Needs Of Baby Boomers
12/21/2017
It’s been said before; the millennials want more technology in their healthcare. Millennials want to be able to text their doctor, and millennials are driving expectations for healthcare. But what about everybody else? Are millennials the only ones healthcare providers should cater to?
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White Paper: Partners In Profitability: How To Choose The Right Clearinghouse For Your Practice
3/18/2010
Every business must endure the current rocky economy, but physician practices are uniquely affected by a true business anomaly. The demand for physician services continues on a strong upward course, yet profitability is not growing with it. Just the opposite, in fact. Revenue increasingly is squeezed by declining payer reimbursement rates and rising operating costs. By Navicure, Inc.
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Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire Streamlines Its Clinician And Patient Care Processes
5/11/2011
In France, the contrat de bon usage du médicament (CBUM) promotes the computerization of medical practices. By Motion Computing, Inc.
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Protecting Privacy When Advancing Medical Breakthroughs
2/9/2017
Important medical breakthroughs increasingly rely on sophisticated analyses from multiple large databases. By Sam Wehbe, Marketing Director, Privacy Analytics
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How Mobile Computer Power Management Impacts Operators’ Hard And Soft Costs By Kevin Ahearn, Hand Held Products
3/10/2009
Bob delivers a package, scanning its bar code to record the delivery— and discovers that his computer has shut down. A low-battery alert had appeared moments earlier, but it provided too little warning. Bob missed it.
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Video Case Study: Improving Bedside Data Capture
9/5/2012
In this video case study from Honeywell Scanning & Mobility we take a look at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Memorial Hermann utilizes a fast and efficient barcoding system from Honeywell Scanning & Mobility with mobile computing technology to positively ID patients, deliver the right medication, and draw and properly label samples and specimens from patients at the point of care.