ICD-10 Case Studies & White Papers

81. The New Data Strategy Behind Population Health Has Nothing To Do With MACRA 11/7/2016

    With the final rule issued by CMS for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the landmark payment system for Medicare physician fees is officially the new game in town. Physician incentives for care improvement and adoption of value-based care models are firmly in place.

82. Telehealth Is Tumbling 30-Day Readmissions Penalties 10/27/2016

    High readmission rates are a $17 billion problem across the U.S. for hospital administrators. What’s even more alarming is a portion of 30-day readmissions are preventable. By Lee Horner, President of Stratus’s Telehealth Division, HIT Leaders and News

83. A Data-Driven Approach To Better Care Visits 10/25/2016

    The push to deliver greater value is prompting healthcare organizations to closely examine their clinical and financial processes in search of ways to boost efficiency, improve accuracy, and elevate the patient experience. With this in mind, First Care Clinic, a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient centered medical home located in rural Kansas, set out to retool one of its critical processes — the patient care visit.

84. EMR Adoption: Usability, Security Gaps Resolved Through ECM Integration 10/19/2016

    The future of EHRs has been a topic of heavy discussion and debate. The world many anticipated coming from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems is beginning to take shape, but due to the limitations of many practice-and hospital-based systems it is not exactly the future everyone envisioned. By HK Bain, CEO, Digitech Systems

85. Unified Reimbursement Strategy: Implementing Common Ground Among Next-Generation Reimbursement And Quality Systems 10/12/2016

    We may look back on the 25-year span following the change of the millennium as one of the most densely populated periods of healthcare regulation ever seen in the history of the United States. Every year, individual clinicians, private practices, and health systems are bombarded with new coding, compliance, quality, and reimbursement models, making staying ahead of the curve in terms of overall strategy nearly impossible. Executives, physicians, and healthcare experts would probably agree that it is impossible to maintain a status quo level of performance if your strategy is one of pure reaction to each new deadline from the Department of Health and Human Services.

86. To Click or Not to Click — That Is The Question: How To Avoid Or Rapidly Recover From Data Breaches 9/29/2016

    Information can be one’s greatest ally, but for many organizations it can also become public enemy #1. The healthcare industry has learned this the hard way in 2016 as it has increasingly fallen victim to a series of ransomware attacks.

87. Helping Children With Cancer Overcome Social Isolation During Medical Treatment 9/20/2016

    In this testimonial, learn how Logitech ‘plug and play’ solutions helped nonprofit charity, Hopecam, to expand their service of connecting kids to their schools and classmates during cancer treatment.

88. “To Click Or Not To Click … That Is The Question” 9/2/2016

    Information can be one’s greatest ally, but for many organizations it can also become public enemy # 1. The healthcare industry has learned this the hard way in 2016 as it has increasingly fallen victim to a series of ransomware attacks.

89. Healthcare IT In The Public Cloud 8/29/2016

    Public clouds such as AWS, Azure and others are becoming more attractive because of scalability, agility, features, speed to market, etc. But the key challenge becomes how to best maintain security and compliance.  There are two broad approaches available – using internal staff to manage the cloud (a DIY approach) or working with cloud managed service provider. 

90. 5 Risks Hospitals Face When Using The Public Cloud.. And How To Overcome Them 8/29/2016

    Savvy healthcare organizations in need of greater IT infrastructure agility, performance, security, and compliance are exploring the benefits of public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The allure of on-demand cloud services combined with advances in cloud security have transformed the healthcare IT mindset from “Why move to the public cloud?” to “What should we move and how do we do it?”