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• Outsourcing: A Healthy Approach To EHR Migration

  11/13/2009

  As part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $1.2B is available to help hospitals and healthcare providers successfully install and use electronic health records (EHRs). However, even with financial incentives in place, adoption has been slow and providers – especially smaller to mid-sized practices – are struggling with the capital investment and ROI. By Mario DiSantis, Senior Vice President, Document Lifecycle Solutions, at HOV Services
• Are Your Clinicians Fed Up Don't Blame Your Technology (Yet)

  8/13/2015

  If your clinicians are raising pitchforks over your hospital’s technology, don’t panic and spend big on brand-new applications and systems, expecting a quick fix. More often than not, buying your way to greener pastures is impossible. Why? Well, your hospital’s technology usually isn’t the problem at all. When user adoption is poor and clinicians constantly complain, every issue feels like a technology issue, especially in resource-strapped community healthcare organizations. In reality, though, most of the technology problems that your clinicians complain about are actually process problems in disguise. Here’s a crash course on identifying and categorizing common hospital workflow issues. By Phil Stravers, ICE Technologies

• Hometown Heroes: How Hutchinson Clinic Saved Their Patients And Their Bottom Line

  3/16/2022

  Amid the sights and sounds of the annual Kansas State Fair, the buzz of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and the fanfare surrounding Hutchinson Community College basketball games, you’ll find the 40,000 locals who call Hutchinson home. “Hutch” as it’s affectionately known, is the largest city and county seat in Reno County, Kansas.

• ML For Healthcare As A Requisite To Responsible Patient Care

  3/12/2019

  Big data has long since arrived in the healthcare provider industry. We live in a world where remote patient monitoring devices can generate hundreds of blood pressure readings per day, where every supply is tracked down to a strip of gauze, and millions of radiology images may reside within a single EHR server. But along with these piles of data come clinicians and analysts charged with sifting through them, and the herculean task of providing actionable insight.

• 4 Unique Challenges In Healthcare Recruiting

  2/12/2019

  Recruiting in our current atmosphere of low unemployment is a challenge to begin with. However, recruiting in the healthcare industry which currently boasts a 2.6 percent unemployment rate can be deemed almost impossible by some. In this piece, I set out to tackle the challenges of recruiting in healthcare during a period of record-breaking low unemployment and a new strategy to help meet those challenges.

• Tablet Computers Help Occupational Therapist Go Paperless

  11/14/2011

  This case study chronicles how a South Australian Occupational Therapist was able to increase mobility, eliminate paper waste, enhance patient interaction, and reduce documentation times by using a rugged Tablet PC. By Motion Computing