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The Healthcare IT Innovation Imperative: Harnessing The Power Of Technology For 21st Century Care Models
11/10/2011
The U.S. healthcare system and healthcare systems around the world face seemingly insurmountable challenges. According to Standard & Poor’s report Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth, the United Nations estimates that the proportion of the world’s population aged 65 and over will more than double by 2050, from 7.6 percent in 2010 to 16.2 percent.
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Key Process Analysis Application
5/20/2014
Use data to identify areas with the greatest opportunity based on process variation and other metrics.
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Health Plans See Opportunity In Outcomes-Based Contracts, Finds New Survey
10/19/2017
Escalating drug costs are compelling many states, including New York, to develop and implement policy solutions to stem its rise. In fact, earlier this year, New York became the first state to place a cap on drug spending growth in its Medicaid program. By Caroline Pearson, Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy, Avalere Health
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Telemedicine, A New Model For Health Care Delivery
9/4/2014
Learn how an efficient telemedicine program from Philips and Banner Health allows people to receive high-quality health care from the comfort of their own home.
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Custom Templating And Usability Lead To Nation's First Private Practice Designation As Joint Commission Center Of Excellence
10/1/2013
The vision of G. Edward Newman, MD, for a comprehensive, 21 st century medical practice formed around a decidedly meteorological, geographical and even topographical approach.
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5 Ways To Spot Malicious Insiders
5/21/2015
Medical data is under attack. Both patients and healthcare providers are becoming increasingly aware of the threats to information stored within the industry. And the trust in organizations’ ability to protect this highly sensitive data isn’t keeping pace. In a 2014 Ponemon Institute study, of the people who said their healthcare providers outlined the measures used to protect patients' medical records, 68 percent of those respondents revealed they weren't confident the measures would actually keep their medical data secure. By Lisa J. Berry-Tayman, senior privacy and information governance advisor, IDT911 Consulting
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Pumping New Care Locales into Healthcare's Pipeline
11/19/2012
It was a stereotypical healthcare moment – a wife dragged her reluctant husband into a new Walgreens’ Take Care Clinic in Chicago. He hadn’t seen a primary care physician in nearly a decade, and now he was sweaty, shaky, and simply feeling bad.
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Greenway Helps Improve Outcomes
3/10/2014
Greenway brought Brock Morris, CIO and Josephine Young, COO, of Pediatric Associates to HIMSS to speak to the solutions Greenway offered their practice. Morris and Young note that Greenway’s solutions have helped Pediatric Associates meet their goal of improved patient outcomes.
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Telehealth Can Improve Satisfaction — But Only When Implemented With Patients' Needs In Mind
7/25/2018
There’s no shortage of news about telehealth’s ability to connect remote patients with highly qualified physicians through super-high-tech videoconferencing equipment. This is not surprising, considering that telehealth has shown a proven track record of helping to speed up the diagnosis of conditions such as stroke by connecting patients and remote specialty providers.
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White Paper: A Primer On Next Generation Data Protection Technologies For Healthcare
4/12/2010
In today’s healthcare industry, the quality of patient care depends upon a number of key factors. Your IT infrastructure is one of these factors. Any event which affects the availability of application services provided by the infrastructure upon which your care givers depend must be addressed with planned recovery procedures. By InMage