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11. How Mobile Technology Is Giving The Healthcare Industry A Renewed Focus On Patient Engagement 3/10/2016

    With a recent PEW study citing 64 percent of American adults have a smartphone and 50 percent of American adults have an internet connected tablet, it is clear mobile technologies have widespread influence. A number of customer-centric industries including retail, hospitality, and transportation are beginning to leverage the power of mobile consumer engagement, and one of the biggest industries also feeling the effects of a more mobile society is healthcare. With so many healthcare providers looking to increase patient satisfaction rates and engagement rates, HIMSS vendors had a number of solutions on display which can help re-engage with patients expecting a more mobile experience. By Cameron Roche, Research Analyst at VDC Research

12. 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.

13. A White Paper About EMR Workflow, Usability, And Productivity In Pediatric And Primary Care 9/30/2009
    “A high-volume, low-margin business like primary care medicine simply cannot support the costs. These include both the very high dollar cost of buying and maintaining a system and the huge drop in productivity that initially accompanies implementation.” By Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS
14. Chronic Disease Is Healthcare's Rising-Risk 6/17/2016

    The move to value based care is no longer a question of if or when, it’s now. As health systems prepare for impending change in their revenue, they must decide if they are going to lead, follow or resist the transformation at their own peril. Leading Health Systems are already partnering with value-based payers and creating shared and full-risk contracts. New leadership teams, focused on Population Health Management (PHM) are essential to success under new alternative payment models that reward maintaining a healthy population. As a competitive business necessity, health systems must continue the acquisition of value-based care payer contracts. Those contracts also include the acquisition of significant financial risk. PHM’s task is to identify, track and manage the real drivers of costs across their populations and in doing so, manage the risk. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale

15. Using Technology To Meet CMS Discharge Planning Requirements 4/8/2016

    On October 29, 2015, CMS proposed a new set of discharge planning requirements that hospitals and other care providers must meet to receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. According to CMS, the proposed rules are meant to modernize the discharge function and help organizations improve care quality and avoid adverse events, such as unnecessary complications or hospital readmissions.

16. Getting To The Heart Of The Matter 10/22/2015
    Netherlands-based Leiden University Medical Center deploys an IoT time tracking solution to reduce time-to-treatment for heart attack patients. By Adebayo Onigbanjo, Director of Marketing, Zebra Technologies’ New Growth Platforms Team

     

17. How Ruggedness Reduces TCO For Mobile Computers — VDC Research Presented By Intermec 6/22/2011

    General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight, and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). By Intermec, Inc.

18. HIPAA Celebrates A Birthday: COVID-19, HIPAA, And Your Rights 8/6/2020

    As August 21, 2020 marks the 24th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s HIPAA Law, it is not a bad time to reflect on how the law has been doing. As with any big changes in healthcare, whether the advent of Electronic Health Systems (EHRs) in the past decade or a pandemic like COVID-19, nothing stays the same. All laws, rules, and regulations occasionally need some breathing room and this also applies to HIPAA. Here is an update on HIPPA changes and some examples of what not to do.

19. How Outsourcing Can Improve MPI Data Integrity 11/13/2019

    With budgets and resources shrinking, it makes sense to consider outsourcing MPI data remediation and maintenance to experts who can ensure it is done accurately and efficiently. Doing so not only frees up MPI resources to focus on other mission critical responsibilities, but it also helps healthcare organizations avoid the high clinical and operational costs incurred with duplicate records.

20. Conducting Research, Even When Disasters Strike 3/20/2017

    Disasters often unfold suddenly and unpredictably (explosions), with a short lead time to prepare (hurricanes) or over extended time periods (droughts). Each disaster event can present its own set of public health threats. By Steve Ramsey, MPH, Project Manager and Senior Advisor for Epidemiological Field Studies, Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.