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71. Build A Case For Telehealth By Showing Patient Demand, Quality Care, And Better Pay 9/26/2017

    The telehealth technology adoption rate has been gradual among healthcare organizations, increasingly only about 3.5 percent per year from 2014 to 2016. By Gary Sibley, vice president at Brother

72. Why It's Time To Adopt Self-Scheduling 2/5/2018

    For the last few years, the healthcare industry has started to embrace self-scheduling technology. In order to improve efficiency and stand out in a rapidly evolving and highly competitive marketplace, the smartest health organizations are providing digital systems and tools for patients to seek, book, change and cancel their own care appointments.

73. Why Are Healthcare Leaders Taking Note Of The PCMH Care Model? 5/15/2019

    For every 100 physicians in the US, 32 are PCPs. However, for every 100 patients in the US, 52 patients visit a PCP each month. Add to that the lack of streamlined communication channels between primary care providers and specialists which often results in gaps in care.

74. Solving Healthcare's Unique BYOD Security Challenges 11/4/2015

    Healthcare practitioners are as passionate about their mobile devices as anybody, and 90 percent of them use their personal smartphones for work. Most organizations use Mobile Device Management in order to keep data safe on BYO devices. Unfortunately, MDM challenges like policy development, employee privacy concerns, deployment complexity, and high costs have inhibited BYOD adoption despite much promise. By Rich Campagna, VP Products & Marketing, Bitglass

75. New Population Health Decision System For ACOs Uncovers The Hidden Risks 3/10/2016

    One of the biggest challenges for Accountable Care Organizations is effective deployment of patient care resources. To succeed requires an in-depth understanding of patient risk, which is often difficult to assess. The reason for this is that most risk analysis systems rely on claims data, which can only tell who, in the past, has been a high-use patient. What that data can’t do is tell you who is on the verge of developing a serious condition.

76. Controlling Patient Hypertension Via Wireless Devices 3/25/2010
    73 million Americans have high blood pressure (defined as an individual: with systolic pressure of 140 mmHg or greater and/or diastolic pressure of 90 mmHg or greater, taking antihypertensive medication, or being told at least twice as having high blood pressure by a physician or other healthcare professional). By IDEAL LIFE, Inc.
77. UMMC Streamlines EHR Workflow With Tablet Computers 11/30/2011
    This case study outlines how the University Of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) was able to eliminate paper waste, streamline physician efficiency, improve patient interactions, and cut costs by integrating their EHR system with tablet computers.
78. Adding Disk To Backup 10/27/2009
    The old Northeast Delta Dental system provided great protection—data was backed up and tapes were taken off-site every day as best practices would dictate—but the system had become fragmented and complex. “We never had time or resources to duplicate tapes, so when we had to restore a file—something we do several times a week—it was extremely slow,” explains Northeast Delta Dental’s Manager of Networking and Technical Support, Dan Kaplan. “We had to get tapes returned from the off-site facility and re-load them to restore anything. It took hours, with significant manual intervention. By Quantum
79. 5 Ways Health IT Shackles Physicians 7/6/2016

    It seems every week there’s another study documenting the problems physicians have with healthcare IT. The findings invariably are consistent with what the AMA has been saying for the past several years — physicians overwhelmingly dislike EHR systems’ poor usability and interoperability, and resent the extra time they have to spend at the keyboard.

80. Organization Streamlines Processes, Reduces Labor Costs And Increases Daily Cash Postings Using CareMedic's Payment Management 9/16/2009
    CareMedic representatives introduced health system administration to its newest solution offering, Payment Management, an ASP-based, all payer solution for managing remittances. By CareMedic