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• How To Develop A Cyber Security Practice

  11/19/2018

  The potential business revenue from rising compliance requirements and security threats is hard to ignore. The increasing press coverage of ransomware attacks and fines for non-compliance is driving awareness and urgency. Even the slow adopter business owners and managers know something needs to be done to limit their corporate risks and individual exposure, and time isn’t on their side. What tools are necessary, how to integrate it into the IT services offering, how to market it? What are the best ways to go about developing sound cyber-security policies and practices in 2018 that could be used for commercial gain as well as internal commercial security? Here are some recommendations.

• Virtual Monitoring & How It Can Improve The Patient Experience

  10/22/2018

  In today’s digital world, customer experience is everything. In nearly every industry, consumers who are unsatisfied with the service they receive or by an experience they have with an organization will seek that service elsewhere. The healthcare industry has been known for lacking a positive patient experience, with grumblings of frustration with the healthcare system heard across the country.

• Case Study: Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia

  9/23/2009

  Doctors are getting lab tests back faster, and that means they’re more efficient. They can ... accept more patients as a result. By Microsoft
• Consumers Must Be The Focus Of Providers' Value-Based Technology For Managing Risk

  1/16/2020

  Providers negotiating risk-based health plan contracts or considering Medicare Value-Based payment options have to decide how they are going to avoid devastating financial losses. As capitation re-emerges as a dominant payment type, providers are using various technologies to supplement their current EHRs and financial systems. Their priorities are on spotting patients and providers who may generate "excessive" costs compared to targets and improve performance.

• AMA EHR Initiatives: What They Mean For Tomorrow's Doctors

  7/7/2017

  The AMA recently announced two separate initiatives around EHR training for next-generation doctors: the AMA Health System Science Textbook and the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative.

• Back To The Past — Is A Private Cloud Really Safer

  12/3/2015

  Maybe it’s the word public, but some healthcare organizations think of public clouds as more vulnerable to security attacks, and thus, should be passed over in favor of privately built and managed cloud environments. But how well-grounded are these fears, especially given the frequency of internal healthcare data breaches? As it happens, healthcare IT in the public cloud — that is, in a data center environment managed by a third party vendor and which hosts data from numerous organizations — can enable the healthcare profession to leverage unique features not available anywhere else, including ironclad security. By Matt Ferrari, Chief Technology Officer, ClearDATA