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• EHR Failure: What's A Practice To Do?

  11/15/2017

  Physician dissatisfaction with EHRs has been well-documented in recent years, as has the growth of the EHR replacement market. In Kalorama Information’s report, The State of the EMR Market in 2017, the authors estimate that approximately 15 percent of physicians are seeking EHR replacement systems in order to mitigate frustrations with awkward and non-intuitive interfaces and functionality gaps.

• Financial Services Current State In Healthcare

  11/23/2009

  Financial service organizations are increasingly providing products and services to the healthcare community. While the medical lockbox may have been the first healthcare-specific product that banks1 offered to larger hospital systems, products have expanded to include a number of different services for payers, providers and consumers. By Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)
• Tips For Selecting The Right Practice Management Software

  3/30/2017

  Practice Management Software (PMS) provides data visibility to the doctors and makes it easier for office staff to conduct regular tasks — it is an important tool to help hold the medical business together. But when it comes to choosing the right PMS, every practice has to consider its unique needs and navigate through the clutter before selecting a system that fits best. By Bhavesh Koladiya, SoftwareSuggest

• 5 Ways To Spot Malicious Insiders

  5/21/2015

  Medical data is under attack. Both patients and healthcare providers are becoming increasingly aware of the threats to information stored within the industry. And the trust in organizations’ ability to protect this highly sensitive data isn’t keeping pace. In a 2014 Ponemon Institute study, of the people who said their healthcare providers outlined the measures used to protect patients' medical records, 68 percent of those respondents revealed they weren't confident the measures would actually keep their medical data secure. By Lisa J. Berry-Tayman, senior privacy and information governance advisor, IDT911 Consulting

• Optimize Pop Health Management For Patients With Serious Illnesses

  4/11/2017

  A growing number of healthcare payers are seizing the opportunity to optimize their population health management (PHM) programs for seriously ill patients. By Greer Myers, President, Turn-Key Health

• HIMSS16: How The M&A Boom Is Changing Health IT

  2/29/2016

  With HIMSS 2016 underway, a key topic of conversation centers on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Last year, large industry-leading deals characterized healthcare M&A with announcements form Aetna and Humana, Anthem and Cigna, and a large, nationwide movement of private practice acquisitions by hospitals and healthcare systems.