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Nemours Children's Health System Enhances Patient Experience With HID Global EPCS Solution
1/17/2017
HID Global Solution Enables DEA-compliant Electronic Prescriptions of Controlled Substances (EPCS)
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Does The Cybersecurity Act Of 2015 Help Or Hurt?
3/7/2016
There was a lot of talk about the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, but does Section 405: Improving Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry really do enough? While the bill is a start to helping the healthcare industry lower cybersecurity risks, the improvements passed may not do enough to protect us from the compromise of sensitive information.
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How Outsourcing Can Improve MPI Data Integrity
11/13/2019
With budgets and resources shrinking, it makes sense to consider outsourcing MPI data remediation and maintenance to experts who can ensure it is done accurately and efficiently. Doing so not only frees up MPI resources to focus on other mission critical responsibilities, but it also helps healthcare organizations avoid the high clinical and operational costs incurred with duplicate records.
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How Can Document Scanning Protect You From Swine Flu?
9/23/2009
It’s the biggest healthcare story of 2009. The World Health Organization has declared the swine flu pandemic the first in 41 years. In order to manage this crisis, the healthcare community will need to use technology to track patients and countermeasures in order to quickly analyze what is working and what needs to be changed. By Mike Stuhley is the president of GoScan, Inc.
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Implementing A Healthcare Data Platform To Promote High-Value Care
6/18/2020
To close the gaps in healthcare delivery, healthcare organizations first need to drill deep into a patient’s clinical information and identify the underlying gaps. That’s no small task given that data and different ID numbers from heterogeneous sources be matched to a patient.
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What's E-Health And How It's Reshaping The Medical Sector
2/6/2019
In the era where everything is going digitized the healthcare industry is also experiencing e-health with a wide range of activities, scope, and approaches. This is all about exploiting the information and communication technologies in the clinical domain.
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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.
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Systems Of Engagement In Action
6/21/2018
EHRs are systems of record, capable of capturing and storing the mass of information needed to create more efficient and effective healthcare systems, but are not capable of driving the transformation on their own. It is systems of engagement that make that information actionable, transforming it into easy to understand formats that synchronize with workflows, and delivering it to patients and providers wherever they are. With these systems in place, facilities are already showing progress toward the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim: improved patient outcomes and increased patient satisfaction, with reduced costs.
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5 Ways To Protect Sensitive Healthcare Data
7/14/2017
The number of ransomware emails jumped 6,000 percent between 2015 and 2016, per an IBM Security study. To put that into perspective, SonicWall reports there were 3.8 million ransomware attacks in 2015 and over 638 million in 2016. By John Harris, chief technology officer, SIGNiX
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Maximizing The Potential Of Virtual Care
9/17/2015
Almost daily, there is a new announcement about the next-big-thing that promises to radically improve healthcare. By Lidia L. Fonseca, SVP and CIO, Quest Diagnostics