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61. Executing A Successful Go-Live In A Short-Staffed Environment Requires Planning And Support 9/11/2017

    Only 29 percent of today’s hospitals have fully staffed IT departments even though EHR optimizations or new implementations remain the second-highest priority for these organizations for the next 12 months, according to the latest HIMSS leadership survey. By Dan O’Connor, vice president of client relations, Stoltenberg Consulting

62. Wearables Have To Evolve To Remain Relevant 12/2/2015

    When wearables arrived on the stage a few years ago, they were mainly seen as devices peripheral to healthcare. Since then, their popularity has surged, primarily due to the increase in sales of fitness trackers and smart watches. Now, many believe the power of wearable technology could be the key to solving some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Others, however, predict wearables are merely a passing fad that will soon fade. What’s clear is that in order to make the potential for wearables a reality, the application of the technology will need to change. So the time has come for the wearables’ manufacturers to fully grasp the importance of Darwin’s famous postulate — Evolve to Survive — and act accordingly. By Murtuza Mukadam, Virtusa Corporation

63. Safeguard Against Medication Errors With Automated Dispensing Cabinets 6/18/2010
    While monitoring the proper use of all medications is important, monitoring controlled substances is one of the highest priorities. Statistics have shown an increased awareness and prevalence of controlled substance diversion. By CareFusion
64. Fixing The Need For A Fix: Bridging The IT Gap Between Physical And Behavioral Healthcare 12/14/2018

    Treating addiction is not a simple process and the current treatment of 90-day detox programs works well if you have thousands of beds, staff and other resources. The actual behavioral health treatment of addition is not much better. It is still a time-consuming process requiring individual diagnosis, but largely driven by paper and trial and error guesswork.

65. False Alarms Have Real Consequences In Hospitals 10/23/2017

    As we go through our days, we are surrounded by a variety of alerts: clocks alarm in the morning, microwaves ding at lunch and dinner, smartphone reminders chirp throughout the day, and sounds of text messages are often in between. By Todd Plesko, Vice President of Product Strategy, Vocera Communications, Inc.

66. 5 Project Management Lessons For Healthcare 10/28/2015

    Project management offers a variety of methods and tools that hospital leaders can implement to increase the quality of the care and optimize processes in a hospital. However, staying focused on how best to execute project management methodologies is often hard, especially when being under time, budget, and legal constraints. So, let’s take a look at five project management lessons worth incorporating into healthcare. By Andreas Tremel, Co-Founder and CEO, InLoox

67. Evolving The EHR: What Apple's App Store Can Teach Us 12/18/2019

    What if your mobile browser was the only app on your phone? Imagine how much longer it would take to complete all the tasks you use your phone for — whether sending an email, completing a bank transfer, scheduling a rideshare, ordering groceries or listening to music. Our apps streamline access to certain information, automatically log us in, remember our previous orders or destinations, and are, to put it simply, efficient.

68. The Interoperability Impact: Resolute To Touch Millions Of Lives In 2020 1/23/2020

    Achieving true interoperability across the care continuum has been a top priority for providers, payers, and other key stakeholders for more than a decade. The HITECH Act in 2009 saw providers move from paper-based records to EHRs. However, achieving 100 percent interoperability is still a feat healthcare must achieve to realize coordinated and patient-centric care. Here’s a brief history of interoperability and how much still needs to be achieved.

69. 10 Steps To Incorporating A PHM Strategy For Wearables Technology 8/8/2016

    As technology continues to play a greater role in U.S. healthcare policy and programs, there’s a central question vexing health plan leaders, employers, and payers who seek to maximize its value: How?

70. The Next Step To Value-Based Care: Activating Healthcare Data For Physicians 3/26/2019

    Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now.