FEATURED CONTENT

• ITAD: Why This Facet Of The IT Life Cycle May Be The Key To Securing Healthcare Data And Empowering Innovation

  3/2/2020

  Not long ago, Microsoft disrupted end users and businesses alike by announcing that Windows 7 was entering its end of life phase on January 14, 2020. As an operating system that stands as an institution due to its enduring and widespread popularity — while out of date, the program still runs on more than a quarter of the world’s desktops — Windows 7 has thrown many into a long-due upgrade process. For healthcare, however, this change may come as a particular blow.

• Targeting High-Risk Patients: A Population Health Strategy

  1/7/2019

  Population health is a hot topic within the healthcare industry, as providers move from traditional fee-based to value-based models. In the annual Numerof State of Population Health Survey, 95 percent of the U.S. C-suite healthcare executives surveyed ranked population health as “moderately” and “critically” important.

• Factors To Consider When Switching EHRs

  3/28/2014

  David Gibbons, executive VP & COO at UPMC Hamot explains why the “Big Bang” approach was chosen over an evolutionary or staged approach, mentioning the distance from the core as UPMC as one reason.

• How The New PQRI Will Affect Emergency Department Provider Documentation

  9/23/2009

  The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program instituted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has received changes for the 2008 calendar year. The PQRI program replaces the Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP) and involves all emergency care providers (i.e., physician assistants and nurse practitioners), not just physicians. CMS began collecting the PQRI data on July 1, 2007. Data reporting utilizes the CMS coding and billing infrastructure through the use of CPT Category II codes or in some instances G-codes. By T-System Inc.
• Protecting Your Network From Hackers

  4/7/2016

  Many healthcare organizations don’t realize just how many privileged accounts are on its network that insiders have access to. Periodically taking inventory of these accounts and getting rid of those that aren’t needed can go a long way toward protecting your organization’s network: think of it as a new type of spring cleaning.

• Patient Empowerment In A Changing Environment

  8/28/2018

  Health is not just occasional moments throughout a lifespan, but an ongoing journey with unexpected turning points, peaks, and valleys. While the current healthcare system is centered around 15-minute appointments with doctors and specialists, most of what impacts one’s health occurs not during those visits, but in between them. During these long stretches of time, medications change, symptoms fluctuate, additional labs and tests are administered, and visits to other specialists are scheduled. Health-related decisions take place nearly every minute of every day.