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  1. More Than Price Transparency: Patients Need Information Transparency 7/25/2017

    Most patients find it difficult to locate timely, accurate, and complete health data. Yet data is exactly what they need now that they must make health decisions they’ve never had to before. By Tate McDaniel, SVP, engagement solutions, Change Healthcare

  2. 6 Steps To A Successful Data Governance Program 11/4/2016

    Data governance is not exactly the healthcare industry’s most glamorous topic. Yet it’s a necessary evil, one that has several downstream impacts on organizations.

  3. Caring For The Unseen Sufferers Of COVID-19: How Artificial Intelligence Can Enable Proactive Care And Help Avert An Epidemic Of Preventable Diseases 5/11/2020

    As the nation’s eyes focus on COVID-19, another healthcare crisis is unfolding out of sight. Hidden from view, millions of Americans who don’t have COVID-19 are suffering healthcare crises in their homes. These unseen individuals are facing major challenges, on multiple levels: acute, chronic, and preventive. Patients are waiting longer at home before coming to the hospital for acute illnesses like appendicitis, stroke, or heart attack.

  4. Healthcare On Cloud Nine: Top 8 Benefits Of Healthcare-Cloud Merger 12/20/2019

    Rising healthcare promises have been tied to cloud technology in the most recent tech-talks of the town. While the majority of care providers are not holding their breath due to previous disappointments, we wanted to translate the often-vague statements made into discrete simplified processes for healthcare.

  5. Case Study: DXi7500 Cures Hawaii Department Of Health's Backup Ills 10/27/2009
    Hawaii may be known as a paradise where life takes on a relaxed pace, but even there, islanders grow impatient when a technology bottleneck interferes with their ability to get work done. So when the BT Emergency Preparedness & Response branch of the state’s Department of Health realized that its weekend backup was still grinding away come Monday morning, the IT team knew it was time to find a new data protection solution. By Quantum
  6. How User-Centered Design Can Improve EHR Usability 3/18/2016

    The healthcare industry is increasingly calling for a design overhaul of electronic health record (EHRs) to improve usability. Why do products in other industries seem to be more reflective of users’ needs? I believe usability lags in health IT because EHR vendors have not applied rigorous, user-centered design (UCD) methods. It’s not that clinicians haven’t been involved, they just haven’t been involved in a meaningful way.

  7. How To Sustain High Productivity After Implementing An EHR 5/18/2015

    Talk with any physician, and they’ll likely voice concerns about the EHR, including its cost and potential drain on productivity. Physicians fear that even after a costly and time-consuming implementation, the EHR will create an additional burden and require more of their time, allowing for fewer minutes of face-to-face interactions with patients. By Alok Prasad, president, RevenueXL Inc.

  8. California, Illinois Move Forward On Healthcare Laws To Protect Patient Safety 10/17/2019

    In the wake of ongoing reports of safety issues adversely affecting patients and their families and the working conditions of healthcare workers, these constituents have lobbied for changes in state laws to address patient safety issues and workers’ employment conditions. Recent legislative developments in California and Illinois exemplify the types of laws being enacted as well as portend changes being considered in other states.

  9. Changed For The Better: A Shared Digital Communication Solution 8/31/2021

    Fortunately for humans, we’re masters at adaptation. Whether it’s encountering different climates, environments, cultures, or even pandemics, homo sapiens have a knack for being able to deal with just about anything that Mother Nature throws at us. Though cultural anthropology dubs this ability to acclimate “biological plasticity,” actor Clint Eastwood, as a Marine in a 1980s war film, puts it more succinctly: “You adapt. You overcome. You improvise.”

  10. 5 Patient Engagement Lessons From Outside Healthcare 1/31/2017

    We call it patient engagement; everyone else calls it customer relationship management By Raj Toleti, CEO of HealthGrid