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• What Does It Take To Earn Top Medicare Advantage Ratings?

  6/4/2019

  While healthcare leaders uniformly agree that transitioning to value is the way healthcare is going to be in the coming days, it is unclear to most how they can make the transition without negatively impacting their cost outcomes. In an industry which had primarily been fee-for-service based, healthcare organizations are facing immense pressure to innovate and adapt or risk their long-term viability.

• Reducing The Threat Of Stolen And Compromised Credentials

  6/1/2016

  Compromised and stolen credentials continue to be a thorn in the life of the health IT security professional. A recent Cloud Security Alliance survey found more than 65 percent of respondents believed compromised credentials would be the root cause of a security breach.

• From Health Record Maintenance To Drug Research: How Mobile Tech Is Transforming Healthcare

  5/3/2017

  From the arrival of the Blackberry in 2002 to the explosion in smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices we see today, the last decade and a half has seen mobile communication and computing tech come a long way. One industry which has been profoundly affected is healthcare. By Brent Whitfield, CEO, DCG Technical Solutions Inc.

• The Digital Healthcare Evolution: How Experimentation Can Help Build The Future Of Patient-Centered Care

  2/12/2016

  A lot happens in 60 seconds on the internet. More than 293,000 Facebook statuses are updated, 550,000 tweets written, and 2.78 million YouTube videos watched in this small amount of time.

• Banks And Innovative IT: Healthcare's New Power Couple

  11/29/2016

  Banks have traditionally played a critical role in serving the healthcare industry. They are payment aggregators, digital and paper lockboxes, data normalizers, systems of record, and more. By Deborah Theobald, CEO, Vecna

• Technology Will Help Senior Care Facilities Manage The Tide Of The Growing Elder Population

  10/26/2015

  Despite the uptick in technology adoption by the healthcare industry overall, the implementation of health IT (HIT) in the senior care market is lagging behind in comparison to the rest of the healthcare market sectors. Long-term and skilled nursing facilities with EHR systems are seeing their benefits such as smoother transitions of care, staffing efficiencies and exchanging data between hospitals and physicians. So, despite the need for sophisticated health IT software to handle patient data generated by senior patients, why is the senior care industry slower to adopt these new capabilities? We can trace this to misconceptions about many things, most commonly concerns around cost and the belief that implementing an EHR will be disruptive to business. By Dave Wessinger, CTO, PointClickCare