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• Accelerating The Time To Value From Advanced Analytics

  2/19/2020

  Why should healthcare executives care about analytics and connected analytics in particular? Because healthcare is in a state of enormous disruption and transformation.

• Overcoming Drug Shortages With Tech

  10/15/2019

  Medication shortages come with a substantial cost to pharmaceutical companies—loss of revenue, provider loyalty, and brand reputation pose significant and detrimental threats to business. Currently, the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) lists over 150 drug shortages, costing the United States $216M in labor and $200M in substitution costs, each year. As time and resources are invested heavily in drug discovery—approximately $2.6B is spent to bring a drug to market—it is vital that the medication supply chain is optimal to recoup investments.

• Guest Column: Give PACS Stations A Space-Saving Makeover

  4/21/2011

  This article takes a closer look at using a new breed of review displays with built-in USB ports to manage multiple PACS workstations instead of KVM switch solutions. By Art Marshall, product manager, medical-grade displacys, NEC Display Solutions
• The Case For Greater Consumer Centricity In Hospital Star Ratings

  6/25/2019

  Earlier this year, the CMS announced it was considering retiring the latent variable model it uses to assign its well-established hospital star ratings. The notice came as a surprise to many in the healthcare industry, considering CMS originally defended the star rating methodology nearly a year ago. But hospital executives have largely criticized its continued relevance in today’s healthcare landscape, which is slowly but surely moving toward a consumer-focused model. CMS is currently gathering feedback to decide whether or not permanent changes will be made to the star ratings system, but given how much has changed in the healthcare industry since the ratings were first established (and last revised), many of us in the healthcare industry say it’s time for a refresh.

• Patient Matching Strategies In An M&A Environment

  8/8/2017

  Despite intense efforts and significant investments to implement EHRs, duplicate records continue to plague providers. Patient data matching functionalities within EHRs often lack the complexities to reconcile records from disparate and external systems. By Dan Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate

• Did The U.S. Technology Gap Push Medical Errors Into The Third Leading Cause Of Death?

  6/15/2016

  Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a U.S. IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest “Can You Top This” except, increasingly, the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks to needless medical deaths, many of these IT snafus are caused by preventable interoperability communication errors, as has been the case for decades.