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• COVID-19 Communications: Meeting Patients Where They Are

  2/10/2021

  There’s been a spate of good news in recent weeks on the COVID-19 vaccine front that is cause for hope and optimism in the war against the coronavirus. The pace of vaccine production and distribution by the U.S. government has been accelerated, making more doses available to more people sooner. In many states, the prioritized rollout has transitioned from healthcare workers and long-term facility residents to vaccinating adults 70 years of age and up. President Joe Biden has set a goal to administer 100 million shots of the vaccine in his first 100 days in office.

• What Does Age Have To Do With Healthcare Payments?

  8/23/2017

  Healthcare spending grew to $3.4 trillion in 2016 and is expected to reach $5.5 trillion by the year 2025 according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. By Chris Seib, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, InstaMed

• Assuring The Healthcare IT Evolution Enterprise-Wide

  10/27/2017

  In his keynote speech at the 2017 Healthcare Security Forum, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge highlighted that a new reality exists with the proliferation of applications and access devices in healthcare. “IoT will become the Internet of Everything,” said Secretary Ridge. “Everything that makes healthcare more efficient, every access point, new device or algorithm, for every positive there’s a negative: risk and vulnerability.”

• Overcoming The Hurdles Of Healthcare Technology

  11/10/2016

  Healthcare is losing over $2.2 million per data breach, and that doesn’t include additional losses in customer information. Since 2009, almost half the population has had their healthcare data stolen as a result of one of approximately 1,500 data breaches. So, why aren’t healthcare companies doing more to address this problem? There are a couple of reasons, both of which can be attributed to the fact the healthcare industry is, at its core, outdated.

• The Healthcare Digital Backbone

  5/12/2015

  The healthcare industry is undergoing significant transformation with wellness and personal devices exponentially increasing the reach of what was termed as healthcare access in traditional terms. On the other hand, cost and regulatory compliance pressures are pushing for improved efficiency. While it is a paradigm shift from a consumer perspective, it does impose significant changes on the IT side as well. The B2C shift as well as evolving reimbursement models will result in innumerable changes in interactions. It is no more a provider administered IT interaction, but device and app based self-service. By Ashok Balasubramanian, Head, Services Transformation Group, Syntel

• Community Hospital Mobilizes Staff For Process Improvement And More

  2/27/2012

  East Jefferson General Hospital‘s (EJGH) nurses required photo documentation for a pressure ulcer prevention project. Lightweight mobile devices have now streamlined this process, contributing to a drastic reduction in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers.