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• The Road To Mainstream Consumer Adoption Of Telehealth

  9/7/2017

  Making healthcare more affordable and accessible is an important mission for our nation, and for all of those who are personally invested in helping change lives. To get there, we must help educate others about, and evolve different attitudes toward, healthcare. By Arif Razvi, co-founder and president, Alvin Healthcare

• Digital Transformation Of Healthcare: Best Of Breed Supply Chain Technology Vs. ERP

  11/18/2020

  The healthcare industry is in dire need of change. With costs going up and reimbursements and margins going down even before Covid-19, transformation is afoot. A major area of transformation and one that this crisis has highlighted is the supply chain. The healthcare supply chain is unique in its own right but in many ways, it lags behind other industries in terms of best practices and digitization.

• Embrace The Power Of Data For Supply Chain Optimization

  6/6/2019

  Data is everywhere, and in healthcare, it comes from a huge number of sources – EMRs, ERP systems, manufacturers, distributors, and more. Turning this disparate data into useful information to optimize the delivery of healthcare services is the end goal, but while industries like retail and banking are effectively using Big Data to improve sales and operations, the healthcare industry lags. Understandably, we are frustrated, confused, and overwhelmed as we work to find a solution.

• Tackling The Mental Health Epidemic With Telehealth

  11/21/2018

  One in five Americans suffers from mental illness, yet only 44 percent receive treatment. Why? People with behavioral health problems face a growing number of obstacles that prevent them from receiving the care they need – from provider shortages to finances the mere unwillingness to seek treatment due to stigma. With telehealth, primary care physicians – nearly half of which treat mental health conditions – now have another viable option: online cognitive behavioral therapy, or iCBT. In fact, 75 percent of healthcare executives believe telemedicine has the potential to transform the standard of care for behavioral health and psychiatry.

• Guest Column: Improving Physician Satisfaction With EMRs

  4/1/2011

  This article describes how medical facilities are using 'discrete reportable transcription' with electronic medical records to help maintain the doctor's traditional workflow. By Randy Olver, CEO, Emdat, Inc.
• How IT Can Support Patient Safety In A Surgical Setting

  10/7/2019

  Twenty years ago, the Institute of Medicine published its seminal Consensus Report on patient safety, “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” That report noted that almost 100,000 annual deaths resulted from preventable medical errors and called for greater exploration of technology to reduce medical errors.