Secure Messaging Case Studies & White Papers
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Risk Mitigation Through Patient Communication And Engagement
4/18/2016
Patients may not provide complete information needed for diagnoses or may not follow their treatment plans, resulting in poor outcomes. Patients may transition to different providers or fail to attend follow-up visits, which can put outcomes and revenue at risk. Providers remain perpetually at risk of being sued.
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12 Question Guide To Buying A HIPAA-Compliant Secure Messaging App
3/29/2016
In today’s connected hospital, the way doctors, nurses and other clinicians communicate and collaborate is changing. Outdated communication methods (i.e. pagers, email and landlines) are not compliant with HIPAA, and also lead to inefficient clinical workflows, which can result in a decrease in patient care quality and clinician productivity. With more and more pressure to deliver high quality care while reducing costs, hospitals across the U.S. could benefit from a solution that helps drive increased workflow efficiencies, which, in turn, can lead to reduced costs and improved patient outcomes.
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Streamline Care Delivery And Clinical Workflows With Care Team Collaboration
12/9/2015
Today’s healthcare system is in the process of making one of the most significant transformations in its history. Organizations are shifting away from a volume- based business model and into the new value-based reimbursement industry. Value-based care is highly collaborative and requires a team-based care delivery approach to provide high quality and low cost services, while also meeting requirements of federal and state level payment regulations.
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Accelerating Interoperability In Healthcare: Bridging The Gap Between Traditional Fax And Direct Messaging
11/17/2015
This white paper describes and explores interoperability of healthcare in the United States, particularly with reference to tactical problems surrounding the transition from paper-based information transmission techniques—fax, in particular. We also describe a new player in the information exchange marketplace that helps solve the tactical problems and bridges the gap between current-day practices and the future world of electronic interoperability.
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Hospital Improves Communication Processes And Increase Provider Satisfaction With Secure Texting Solution
11/4/2015
Froedtert and The Medical College of Wisconsin faced a communications challenge. With no standardized approach to provider communications, a variety of smartphones, pagers and Wi-Fi phones in use, and more than 1.5 million pages being sent each year, the healthcare network needed to improve critical communications for mobile staff while protecting patient health information and assuring the delivery of messages to the right person.
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3 Keys For True HIPAA Compliance
11/4/2015
With the HITECH Act giving HIPAA regulatory teeth, hospitals need to be concerned about doctors, nurses and other clinicians communicating about protected health information (PHI) in a non-compliant fashion. A single non-compliant message could lead to a fine of up to $1.5 million.
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The ROI Of Care Team Collaboration: Increase Efficiency And Reduce Costs
8/17/2015
Hospitals are under more scrutiny now than ever before. Strict regulations require facilities to hit goals in certain areas of patient care to avoid being fined and penalized. For example, if a patient is readmitted to a hospital within 30 days of discharge, the hospital receives a strike from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. After so many strikes within a given year, the hospital loses 3% percent of its annual income from Medicare.
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5 Best Smartphone Advances For Doctors In The Past 5 Years
6/25/2015
The iPhone is only seven years old, but it’s tough to remember life without it. In the years since the iPhone’s 2007 release, the smartphone has become ubiquitous. Today, 58 percent of Americans own a smartphone.
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Top 8 Best Practices For Secure Messaging
5/28/2015
There’s a reason text messaging is quickly becoming common in the work- place: It’s quick; it’s to the point; it saves time. But for all the considerable benefits, traditional text messaging has severe security limitations – the sender cannot be assured of the privacy and confidentiality of messages. This risk poses an even greater threat in organizations where regular communications contain confidential or industry-regulated information.
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BYOD Policy Template For Better Security
5/7/2015
The use of mobile devices has become commonplace for both our personal and professional lives. Businesses understand that employees often utilize their personal mobile devices in the workplace; however, this raises several safety and privacy concerns that must be addressed.