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• How To Keep Hospital ORs Running Smoothly During M&A Integration

  1/30/2019

  The healthcare industry is undergoing a major transformation. In response to rising costs, shrinking reimbursements, and an ever-changing regulatory environment, hospitals and health systems are left searching for ways to reinvent themselves. For many, the answer is merging with, or acquiring, another hospital or health system.

• 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.”

• EHRs: What's Next — An OR Manager's Perspective

  4/10/2017

  Among today’s biggest trends are EHRs and business intelligence. We’re investing millions of dollars creating “data engines” that track patients throughout the continuum of care. By Ashley Walsh, MHA, Sr. Financial Analyst and former Perioperative Business Manager, Perioperative Services, UCHealth and Director, Client Services, LeanTaaS

• Getting Beyond The Telehealth 'Stop Gap' Mentality

  9/15/2020

  Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46 percent of patients reported in late April that they had used telehealth to replace a canceled healthcare visit in 2020, while 48 percent of physicians said they had started using telehealth to treat patients.

• E-Prescribing: We Haven't Reached The Pot Of Gold Yet

  10/7/2016

  For many years, e-prescribing loomed as an over-the-rainbow, off-in-the-distance goal. Spurred on by government initiatives such as the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (also known as the “eRx incentive” program) and the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program (also known as “meaningful use”), e-prescribing has finally become the norm. By Dewey Howell, MD, Vice President of Clinical Applications, First Databank (FDB)

• The Interoperability Impact: Resolute To Touch Millions Of Lives In 2020

  1/23/2020

  Achieving true interoperability across the care continuum has been a top priority for providers, payers, and other key stakeholders for more than a decade. The HITECH Act in 2009 saw providers move from paper-based records to EHRs. However, achieving 100 percent interoperability is still a feat healthcare must achieve to realize coordinated and patient-centric care. Here’s a brief history of interoperability and how much still needs to be achieved.