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61. Addressing Healthcare's Growing Data Management Problem: 6 Key Considerations In Choosing A Next-Generation Storage Solution 3/18/2019

    Virtually every industry is seeing a massive increase in data today – and the healthcare sector is facing a major spike. One contributing factor is an aging population that is driving more usage of healthcare systems in North America and Europe. And at the technical level, advances in medical imaging and genomic research are introducing new types of file types that are larger in size. Industry research firm IDC projects that new data generated by healthcare information and imaging systems will grow from 153 exabytes in 2013 to more than 2,314 exabytes by 2020.

62. How Payers Are Collaborating In Population Health 9/24/2015

    It’s no surprise healthcare costs are significant — and growing. CMS announced in July that healthcare spending is projected to accelerate again, increasing an average of 5.8 percent a year until 2024. As a share of the economy, healthcare’s growth is anticipated to reach nearly 20 percent by 2024, from the current 17.4 percent. The so-called silver tsunami of 10,000 people turning 65 every day and enrolling in Medicare is one of the principal drivers of the projected expansion in healthcare spending as is the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansions. By Mark Caron, CEO, Geneia

63. How To Work With A Tele-ICU Partner: Optimizing Clinical, Operational, And Financial Outcomes 1/5/2016

    Hospital intensive care units (ICUs) represent a microcosm of the interesting challenges present in today’s healthcare ecosystem — balancing the increasing demand for healthcare services with the increasing costs of those services. As baby boomers age, there is a large and growing population that requires critical care; however, the resources available to treat them — physicians trained in critical care, or intensivists — are increasingly spread thin. While ICUs represent approximately 10 percent of hospital beds, they account for nearly 30 percent of its costs. Consequently, an ICU’s ability to treat patients not only effectively, but efficiently, is intricately tied to the hospital’s overall performance. By Lou Silverman, CEO, Advanced ICU Care

64. Rx For Rejected Claims: Automate Patient Registration 2/14/2017

    You don’t have to be a political pundit to see 2017 could be a tough year for healthcare administrators. By Bruce Ackerman, Executive VP of Global Sales, Acuant

65. White Paper: Flawed Human Behavior Could Threaten Success Of Stimulus EMR Incentive Program 8/31/2009
    As someone involved in the digital document and content management business I have watched the approaching stimulus incentives for EMR (electronic medical records) with a great deal of interest. There’s no question that if implemented correctly the stimulus program can accelerate the adoption of more efficient (computer based) record management, resulting in improved health care and reduced costs. By Jeff Nelson
66. NLP, AI, And Machine Learning: Complementary Technologies For Advancing Patient Care 7/17/2017

    For the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) — especially natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning — has been a hot topic in healthcare as vendors, researchers, and providers consider ways to leverage technology to transform medical research and clinical care. By Simon Beaulah, Senior Director of Healthcare, Linguamatics

67. Digital Transformation In Healthcare: Innovation Versus Regulation 9/14/2017

    How do you innovate in an industry where heavy regulation seemingly rears its head at every corner? When you look at healthcare, one thing is clear: innovation refuses to be contained. By Mike Hughes, Principal Platform Evangelist, OutSystems

68. Mastering The Item Master – Data Governance In Healthcare 5/2/2019

    Value-based care places many demands on health systems, most notably the importance of having a data governance strategy. Your data governance strategy should include data sources used by the EMR/EHR, ERP, MMIS, and financials systems. In many healthcare settings, the facility’s MMIS Item Master is the common data source used throughout the facilities systems and business processes, thus putting incredible pressure on the item master to be as accurate as possible. Vizient research shows that roughly 30 percent of the average item master contains bad data. (Vizient, 2018) As inferred above, the item master can impact multiple areas within a hospital. Areas most affected include purchasing, inventory management, clinical decision support, quality management, surgical supply documentation, value analysis, EMR documentation and third-party reimbursements to name a few, are all effected by the data you populate in the item master.

69. May The Good Cause Be With You! 3/2/2016

    CMS continuously strives to improve the healthcare services standard across organizations offering Medicare/Medicaid coverage plans. As part of the same endeavor, the organization came up with a list of changes for the Medicare Advantage (MA) program (Part C) and Prescription Drug benefit program (Part D) of Medicare for contract year 2016. One of the key changes, part of the CMS mandate (CMS-4159-F2), pertains to Good Cause Reinstatement (GCR) decisions. By Jaydev Rajnikant Doshi, Business Manager, Virtusa

70. The Business Case For Making A Good First Impression At Patient Check-In 5/11/2017

    It takes just seven seconds to make a first impression according to a New York University study, so imagine the impression patients are getting at the point of check-in.