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• Wellframe Partners With Boston Scientific To Deliver Digital Heart Health Management Solution

  4/15/2019

  Cardiology organizations today are under increasing pressure to improve quality and outcomes performance across a variety of measures, whether it’s an organizational priority, regulatory need, or quality improvement initiative. And the stakes are high: organizations who don’t succeed could be risking penalties or leaving revenue on the table for risk-based contracts, attractiveness for narrow networks, readmission penalties, new bundled payments, and MIPS.

• A New Era For IT In Healthcare - Are You Prepared To Achieve The Quadruple Aim?

  5/1/2018

  Information technology professionals have never played a more important role in healthcare or been more responsible for its ultimate success or failure. If information is the new lifeblood of healthcare, data are the platelets that comprise it and IT infrastructure is the circulatory system it moves through. In my 30 years in the industry, I’ve seen technology’s role grow in importance and today I would argue that it is ground zero for each objective of the “Quadruple Aim.”

• It's Time For Healthcare Organizations To Stop Doubting The Cloud

  7/10/2019

  The American healthcare sector has changed dramatically within the past decade, thanks to wave after wave of technological innovation. Cloud technology, in particular, has transformed healthcare in much the same way it has transformed other industries, allowing organizations of all types and sizes to optimize their IT resources. But healthcare is different from most other industries — even other regulated ones — because healthcare information contains highly sensitive personal data that is some of the most sought-after information by hackers. For this reason, some healthcare organizations have been reluctant to embrace the cloud.

• Mission Revamp Healthcare 2019: Top Policies To Reimagine Healthcare

  8/28/2019

  One of the greatest challenges in healthcare is keeping up with the changing landscape. Considering only since the beginning of 2019, the CMS and other federal agencies, such as the Office of National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have introduced a number of rules as a measure of upholding their goal of empowering patients and enhancing healthcare efficiency. We’re at a very critical juncture in healthcare and from a regulatory perspective, there are a few key rules that merit a special focus which will have a great impact from both a clinical and financial standpoint.

• Top Wearable Technology To Keep Seniors Safe

  3/7/2017

  There's so much wearable technology available right now it’s enough to make your head spin if you don’t know what you’re looking for, even for someone who’s knowledgeable. For many, the various capabilities the newest sports watches have are more than enough — text messaging, answering phone calls, even GPS. By Jagger Esch, president and CEO, Elite Insurance Partners LLC

• Proactive Security Measures Essential To Preventing Data Breaches

  5/3/2016

  When our organization, Oakland Regional Hospital, a 45-bed general acute care hospital in the Detroit metropolitan area, migrated to a new EHR system, we also had an opportunity to improve our data security policies and procedures. With our former EHR, our data security protocol was reactive based on reported incidents, which we realized was not sustainable from a risk management perspective.