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31. Guest Column: Prepare For The New Patient Influx 5/28/2010
    It is already difficult for some of us to find a primary care physician. So how can our country accommodate an influx 32 million newly insured patients under healthcare reform when the system is already overburdened? The fact that only 4% of new doctors choose to become primary care physicians each year suggests the problem will only get worse.
32. The Future Of Value-Based Care: 5 Years From Now 7/31/2017

    About 20 years ago, healthcare in the U.S. cost an average of $2,800 per person. Ten years later, that figure had shot up to $4,700 per person. Over the years, the cost of healthcare has risen as high as $10,345 per person.

33. Before You Hit Send: Ensuring HIPAA Compliant Email Transmissions From Your Practice 10/31/2017

    Compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — or HIPAA — often keeps doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals up at night. Yet, since the healthcare profession requires an intense study and concentration, it’s no wonder that there is not a lot of mindshare devoted to learning the minutiae inside a dense rulebook filled with a complex set of regulations.

34. Leveraging Smart Availability To Enhance Data Analytics And Decision-Making Precision 6/20/2018

    Today, it is widely accepted that decision-making precision can best be accomplished with accurate and timely data analytics. Seemingly every day, new technologies and methodologies are introduced promising data analytics nirvana, for any number of use cases.

35. Mercy's Law — Hope For The Best, Plan For The Worst 12/3/2015

    EHRs are continuing to transform the healthcare industry for the better — providing critical data to assist physicians, changing how patients are treated, and ultimately improving patient outcomes. As EHRs become a standard of care, clinicians come to count on real-time information, accessible when and where they need and want it. However, as Murphy’s Law states, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. For healthcare organizations relying on EHR systems, it’s not only important that the system perform reliably under optimal conditions — it’s critical the same system works when everything goes wrong. By Dave Nesvisky, Executive Director NetApp Healthcare

36. Making Strides Toward Greater Success In Virtual Care 4/22/2021

    A well-known proverb posits that necessity is the mother of invention. And while telehealth slightly predates the worldwide COVID-19 calamity, we were sure glad — and relieved — the technology was available when the pandemic threatened in-person care.

37. How To Manage A Patient's Experience To Maximize Reimbursement 4/18/2016

    The state of healthcare reimbursement in the U.S. is in extreme flux. It is being rewritten from the ground up, and healthcare providers and health systems are having a hard time keeping track of how they should plan for their financial survival.

38. How Healthcare Providers Can Help Keep Kids Safe From The Flu 9/24/2018

    The summer months are coming to end, school is beginning… which means the flu season is looming and providers must find better tactics to help prevent its spread.

39. 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.

40. Harnessing The Unstructured Content In Your Healthcare Facility 5/24/2010
    Your healthcare facility has likely acquired several third party applications that interface to your ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. By Dylan Persaud, managing director, Eval-Source