Document Management Featured Content
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VNA: A Better Way To Archive
1/16/2015
Given today’s broad healthcare challenges, it’s hard to be neutral about Vendor Neutral Archiving (VNA). Given its ability to translate data to a standardized format and enable communication across disparate IT systems, hospital departments, and enterprises, the VNA addresses today’s most crucial healthcare issues – enabling patient data communication across the continuum of care, creating a more complete patient record, and supporting Meaningful Use. Moreover, after years of little control over PACS and other important data, a VNA puts providers back in the driver’s seat and relegates vendors a secondary position. By Greg Strowig, COO, TeraMedica, Inc.
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How to Approach Healthcare IT And Compliance: A Brief Tutorial On ISO 27799
12/16/2014
It’s been said time and again: healthcare regulations are a virtual alphabet/number soup. Entire books can be written about HIPAA regulations alone, so we’ll leave those aside for now. ISO 27001, ISO 27002, and ISO 27799 are only a few of the regulations required to protect individuals’ healthcare data. Noncompliance doesn’t only risk data loss, it also means you can incur large fines, individual, and class action lawsuits with massive punitive damages – and even be shut down. By Roy Peretz, VP of Product Management, Whitebox Security
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From Milk Crates To Mobile IT: Hospice Improves Access To Patient Records On The Go
1/29/2013
Employees on the go know that handling documents in the field can be a difficult task – and perhaps no workforce knows this better than hospice caregivers. Hospice workers are road warriors who are constantly on the go to see patients in their homes, a job description that seemingly requires mobile technology.
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Why Teamwork Is So Painful Infographic
9/26/2012
Inforgraphic from a KnowledgeTree survery covering "Why Teamwork Is So Painful".
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Are You Fully Leveraging Your EHR Investment?
6/14/2012
Failing to account for records created before the launch of a new system creates two methods of patient care – one using an automated platform, and one that requires costly, inefficient file storage and paper pushing. It’s the worst of both worlds.
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Achieving Success With The 5010 / ICD-10 Change-Over
2/8/2012
SuccessEHS is a nationally acclaimed vendor providing Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solutions with Integrated Medical Billing Services.
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The Price Of Quality: Managing Cost-Effective Clinical Documentation
10/19/2011
This white paper takes a comprehensive look at the strengths and weaknesses of traditional transcription services, speech recognition solutions, and point-and-click software systems in terms of producing cost-effective and accurate clinical documentation. Dale Kivi, FutureNet Technology Corporation
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Imaging Moves Into The Mainstream
7/28/2011
Misperceptions about 2-D imagers are changing fast, which is why 2-D imagers are the fastest-growing category of bar code readers. Only a few years ago, 2-D imagers were (wrongly) considered a niche technology mostly used for reading 2-D bar codes. Now they are becoming the technology of choice for most bar code applications, and lasers are on the way to becoming a niche technology. By Intermec
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White Paper: Advanced Coding Technology Can Advance The Revenue Cycle
7/14/2011
Coding is changing. ICD-10 is looming larger on the horizon, and financial leaders areright to be fearful of its potential effects. Natural language processing (NLP) and computer-assisted coding (CAC) are advanced coding technologies that can alleviate some of the challenges faced in healthcare organizations today. By Mark Morsch, OPTUMInsight
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Meditech: What It Is - And What It Isn't
6/8/2011
I’m what you might consider a Meditech lifer. For more than 15 years, I worked in a hospital that had Meditech across almost every area of the hospital. By Lorna Green