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• A Guide To Attracting And Engaging Patients With Mobile Tactics

  1/10/2019

  Recent studies show that 52 percent of smartphone users gather health-related information on their phones. This rise in mobile health activity echoes the widespread change in user behavior; 52 percent of global online traffic is now generated through mobile phones.

• Continuum-Wide Data Visibility Helps Reduce Costly Readmissions

  11/30/2015

  Reducing hospital readmissions continues to challenge hospitals nationwide. This year, 2,592 hospitals — more than half of hospitals nationwide — were penalized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a total of $420 million for readmitting too many patients with certain conditions in fewer than 30 days. With continuum-wide data visibility and tools to help them easily identify high-risk patients in greatest need of a clinical intervention, care managers can help prevent readmissions to improve their organization’s financial performance, but more importantly, their patients’ outcomes. By Kent Locklear, chief medical officer, Lightbeam Health Solutions

• Chronic Disease Management Efficiency: Outcome Analytics Is The Key

  9/13/2016

  As chronic diseases account for 86 percent of the U.S. healthcare costs, caregivers are concerned with accurate evaluation of their chronic condition management activities. Accordingly, there is much discussions and research on how to improve health outcomes for chronic patients. However, there is not much written on what precedes actual improvement — that is, medical data analytics where caregivers define, measure, and analyze these outcomes in order to base their progress with clinical processes on real-world data.

• What Is The Future Of Data And Analytics In Healthcare After COVID-19?

  5/18/2020

  The amount of data collected and analyzed by hospitals and healthcare organizations across the world was already on the rise, but the global pandemic has sharpened the focus on data even more.

• Case Study: Duplicate Records Compromise EHR Investment

  12/29/2009

  Children’s Medical Center in Dallas made a major financial commitment to an EHR in 2001, but when the data from the old master patient index (MPI) was loaded into the new system, big problems arose. By Just Associates
• Following A Devastating Fire, SmartSearch Helped A Medical Billing Company Rise Up From The Ashes And Opened The Door To A More Efficient And Profitable Future

  11/11/2009

  After a fire destroyed the offices of Medical Reimbursement Services and many of its medical records were severely water-damaged, including those it was storing on behalf of clients, the company realized it needed to find a more secure way to retain documents. By Square 9 Softworks