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The Patient Experience Is Clinical
2/13/2017
As quickly as healthcare began to focus on patient experience, the law of unintended consequences kicked in. While well received as a tool to help improve care, this situation unintentionally gave rise to a consumer culture around patient treatment. By Mark Crockett, CEO, Verge Health
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How Social Networking Technology Can Revolutionize Care Coordination In Healthcare
3/30/2016
Websites like Facebook and Amazon seem to know almost as much about us as we know ourselves. How is it these computer programs manage to recommend so accurately which friends we’d like to connect with, what shoes we’d like to buy, or which authors we’d most likely enjoy?
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14 Key Points In Successfully Implementing An EHR
10/26/2010
This article provides expert advice to ensure your EHR implementation goes smoothly ... instead of south. By Tony Ryzinski, senior VP of marketing, Sage Healthcare
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Proactive Security Measures Essential To Preventing Data Breaches
5/3/2016
When our organization, Oakland Regional Hospital, a 45-bed general acute care hospital in the Detroit metropolitan area, migrated to a new EHR system, we also had an opportunity to improve our data security policies and procedures. With our former EHR, our data security protocol was reactive based on reported incidents, which we realized was not sustainable from a risk management perspective.
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Case Study: Following A Devastating Fire, SmartSearch Helped A Medical Billing Company Rise Up From The Ashes And Opened The Door To A More Efficient And Profitable Future
1/12/2010
Documents are truly the lifeblood of many information-intensive businesses. For these companies, managing documents electronically can be a lifesaving business practice, as a prominent Maine medical billing company discovered—quite by accident. By Square 9 Softworks
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Healthcare's Unique Challenge: Managing Employee Spend
9/12/2019
Healthcare facilities nationwide face increasing pressure to reduce costs across their organization. Providing patient care is the top priority. For that reason, healthcare executives take advantage of cost savings opportunities within administrative spend to reinvest in critical business areas. These reinvestment efforts enable them to provide better quality care.
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The Next Step To Value-Based Care: Activating Healthcare Data For Physicians
3/26/2019
Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now.
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Greenville Hospital System Selects Kofax Intelligent Capture & Exchange To Automate The Processing Of Insurance Records
1/11/2010
Greenville Hospital System's (GHS) renowned medical team provides world-class care through a network of five state-of-the-art campuses and several outpatient treatment and wellness centers located throughout South Carolina's upstate region. Dedicated to furthering medicine through education and research, GHS has an extensive teaching program and participates in hundreds of clinical trials each year. The teaching program is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and Duke University. By Kofax
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Healthcare Systems Portfolio And Project Management: Aligning Strategy, People, And Process
1/9/2017
Today, most healthcare systems and networks need to integrate a variety of delivery systems in order to share information, report to agencies, and provide some aspect of health services to their patients. By Philip Martin, CEO, Cora Systems (www.corasystems.com)
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Bending The Cost Curve: Are You Leaving Your Chips On The Table?
9/7/2018
Don't walk away from a process improvement project until you have put financial value around the expected gain and tied that back to your organization's key financial metrics. When you score a winning hand, use these methods to ensure that all those chips make it into your pocket.