Feature Articles
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Using Data To Drive Process Improvement And Enhance The Patient Experience
6/20/2017
One year ago, Jackson Health System in Miami realized a cultural shift was necessary in order to move forward. By Bill Griffith, Vice President of Business Process/Operational Improvement for Jackson Health System, Miami
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Patient Data In The Age Of Technology
6/15/2017
Effective data management provides a practical way to improve the performance of healthcare systems. Professionals in the healthcare sector can identify and correct problem areas in various ways. They need to collect, conduct a thorough analysis, interpret and respond to specific performance measures.
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Making Predictive Analytics A Routine Part Of Patient Care In Hospitals
6/15/2017
Today, 96% of hospitals have converted to electronic health records (EHR). Since 83% of adults and 92 percent of children visit a doctor every year, health care systems manage an extraordinarily growing amount of data every year. While hospitals are beginning to apply big data techniques to predict individual outcomes like post-operative complications and diabetes risk, big data remains largely a buzzword.
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NLP: Unlocking The Potential Of Unstructured Text In Healthcare
6/7/2017
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Digital Transformation: Converged Infrastructure For Healthcare
6/2/2017
Convergence in the data center, software defined technologies, and cloud computing have brought new options for data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity that have never been as widely available or as affordable as they are today. It’s an exciting time, but these changes can lead to a landscape that can be confusing and challenging for businesses. Because backup is seen as a cost and an insurance policy, rather than as a business enabler, many organizations have underinvested in it for many years, which impairs IT managers’ ability to meet availability requirements for data and applications.
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Addressing The Quadruple Aim With Technology
5/30/2017
Healthcare organizations are striving to improve the health of their assigned populations while simultaneously lowering healthcare costs. Many of them use the Triple Aim as an overarching set of goals driving the redesign of systems to improve patient care and population health. The Triple Aim‘s goals are enhancing the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare.
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Provider Friendly Terminology: A Better Problem List Strategy
5/30/2017
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Valley Medical Center Improves Patient Outcomes And Achieves Cost Savings With Communication Platform
5/10/2017
Valley Medical Center is an acute care, non-profit community hospital in the suburbs of Seattle. An entity of University of Washington Medicine, Valley Medical Center has a network of primary care, urgent care and specialty care clinics throughout King County. HealthCare’s Most Wired and HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 awards are evidence of the hospital’s commitment to using innovative healthcare technologies to deliver high-quality care.
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UCSF Medical Center At Mission Bay Consolidates Communication And Alarm Functions
5/10/2017
To meet growing demand and address the need for improved facilities, University of California San Francisco Medical Center spent 10 years and $1.5 billion on a new, three-building hospital complex in Mission Bay. The new facility includes a 289-bed children’s, women’s specialty, and cancer hospital complex, which opened to the public in February 2015 with state-of-the-art equipment and emerging technologies.
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Sarasota Memorial Brings Physicians, Nurses And Administrators Together With Communication Solution
5/10/2017
Voalte Me™ extends the capabilities of Voalte One™ by connecting caregivers inside and outside the hospital walls. In the hospital, they use hospital-owned shared devices, while those outside use personal smartphones. At Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida, physicians, nursing managers and administrators are relying on Voalte Me to send and receive secure text messages about patient care, strategize on how to alleviate weekend crowding in the Emergency Department, and disseminate group messages to the staff. And they do all this from outside the hospital, using their own personal smartphones equipped with Voalte Me.