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  1. The Unfortunate Irony Of COVID-19 And Health Insurance — And Lessons To Learn From It 6/15/2020

    Concerned people often bring up the need to reform the American healthcare system. Individuals who are lucky enough to have insurance may find their plan has so many stipulations that it doesn't provide the level of coverage originally anticipated.

  2. Applying The Concept Of Preventative Care To Your Virtualized Application Services 1/10/2018

    Healthcare invented the concept of preventative care – the regular analysis of patient health indicators and diagnostics to stay ahead of issues. Practitioners aim to discover health related anomalies in their earliest stages of development in order to treat them quickly before they become life threatening and catastrophic. If we were to extend this principle to the digital services doctors and clinical staff need and use in treating patients, wouldn’t it also make sense to monitor and analyse the application services and underlying networks to stay ahead of slowdowns that could wreak havoc throughout the patient care delivery network?

  3. The Unexpected Effects Of Greater Patient Engagement 7/15/2019

    The way that medical care is delivered is undergoing a sea change. It starts with an increasing emphasis on value-based care, defined by tying payment to patient health outcomes. Better outcomes are known to be influenced by the level of patient engagement—good things happen when patients play a bigger role in their own healthcare.

  4. Reducing Acute Care Needs For Patients With Chronic Illness 10/14/2016

    How To Use Technology To Engage Patients And Drive Clinical Interventions. By Allison Hart, Vice President of Marketing, TeleVox Solutions at West

  5. Tackling Physician Burnout: Using Robotic Process Automation To Offload Repetitive Tasks 7/6/2020

    Implementing an RPA initiative to ease physician workloads is easier than you might think.

  6. How Millennials Are Driving Interest And Usage Of Virtual Care 11/6/2017

    As healthcare organizations increasingly focus on how to deliver care that meets the needs of this generation, they should keep in mind these key considerations when embracing virtual care technology.

  7. Guest Column: The Emergence Of Outsourced MPI Management 6/23/2011
    Tapping outside expertise helps hospitals improve data integrity and reduce costs while achieving a variety of clinical and administrative goals and objectives. By By Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, and CEO and President of Just Associates
  8. Technology Partner Should Offer Rapid, Simple And Powerful Data Analytic Tools To Inspire Budgeting Confidence 1/19/2017

    Healthcare IT platforms available to monitor and analyze purchased services spending data are limited. This is surprising considering up to 45 percent of a hospital’s or health system’s non-labor budget is spent on purchased services, meaning millions of dollars are being spent without the level of scrutiny it deserves. By Chris Heckler, CEO, Valify

  9. It's Time To Rip Off The ETL Band-Aid 3/3/2016

    It’s time to remove the ETL (extract-transform-load) band-aid, STAT. ETL served an admirable purpose for the last two decades, but today’s volume and complexity of data are overwhelming ETL tools. These technologies that were supposed to solve data problems have now become a hindrance — and it’s time to let them go.

  10. 3 Questions To Ask Before Starting An ERM Program 1/28/2020

    According to research from Risk Based Security, data breaches were up 33 percent in 2019 compared to 2018. The research firm called 2019 the “worst year on record” for breaches. With companies experiencing an increase in risks and data breaches, it’s no surprise that 88 percent of CEOs think enterprise risk management (ERM) is very or extremely important. However, starting an ERM program can be a difficult and intimidating task for an organization to take on.