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  1. Rx For Rejected Claims: Automate Patient Registration 2/14/2017

    You don’t have to be a political pundit to see 2017 could be a tough year for healthcare administrators. By Bruce Ackerman, Executive VP of Global Sales, Acuant

  2. Healthcare Organizations Need To Get Serious About Managing Risk 5/30/2019

    The healthcare industry is a high-pressure, life-impacting industry which can be made even more complicated by the growing number of regulatory requirements. Many of the most challenging mandates are focused on securing critical data and systems within the organizations infrastructure. If not secured properly, cyber threats can be the outcome and are usually associated with insufficient controls, employee risks and negligence.

  3. How Mobile Technology Is Changing The Healthcare Industry 3/5/2018

    Today's healthcare environment is full of uncertainty for healthcare providers, their parents, and the insurance companies that help facilitate medical coverage for millions of Americans. With recent changes to the United States medical insurance policies and changes in reimbursement throughout the industry, costs are expected to rise for the majority of Americans retaining healthcare insurance coverage.

  4. Tech Can Solve A Stubborn Problem: Medication Adherence 7/21/2017

    Despite the healthcare ecosystem’s push for transparency, there remains a shroud of secrecy around one ubiquitous healthcare treatment tool: prescription drugs. By Thomas Borzilleri, CEO, InteliSys Health

  5. The Role Of Telehealth And Digitization In The Medical Marijuana Industry 11/27/2019

    The medical marijuana industry is gaining momentum, and the progress is largely due to telehealth platforms and other health digitization efforts. Here's a look at some recent relevant developments impacting medical marijuana use and access.

  6. The State Of Value-Based Care: Improving Care Quality While Reducing Medical Costs 8/14/2018

    Results from the third biennial study “Finding the Value: The State of Value-Based Care in 2018” conducted by ORC International show value-based care models are doing what they were designed to do: improve care quality while reducing medical costs. Yet, these results also show payers and providers still have work to do in order to optimize these programs. Included below are the study’s top 10 findings along with related insights on how to push the industry forward.

  7. Blockchain: What Is It And How To Build A Business Case 3/13/2018

    As much hype as there is around blockchain and Bitcoin, as an architecture for distributed but trustworthy record-keeping blockchain could turn out to be underhyped in the long run.

  8. The Power Of A Hybrid Cloud Storage Infrastructure For Data-Intensive Healthcare Organizations 1/15/2020

    Today, healthcare organizations (HCOs) are experiencing a “data tsunami.” This is being driven in part by advances in medical imaging and genomic research—with new and larger file types—and it’s also the result of an aging population that is simply using healthcare more. The dramatic growth of data in different formats and systems, along with the sensitivity of that data, presents HCO IT managers with the question of how best to store and manage these digital assets in an increasingly cloud-centric world.

  9. Managing A Skeletal Office During The Holidays 12/17/2018

    Many professionals take off during the holidays, and it’s important that management creates a plan to account for the decrease of employees in the office to ensure work still gets done. Following are some tips to help plan for and manage a skeletal office during the holidays.

  10. UPMC Scales Its Network With SDN 3/6/2020

    Healthcare provider and insurer, UPMC is the largest non-governmental employer in the state of Pennsylvania. It operates 40 academic, community and specialty hospitals, 700 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites and offers an array of rehabilitation, retirement and long-term facilities. For UPMC’s IT department that means a lot of add moves and changes to administer and, with a 12 percent average annual growth rate, a lot of new users and branch offices to add. Before adopting SDN in its data centers and SD-WAN for branch connectivity, scaling UPMC’s network was a costly part of the business.