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• Patient Empowerment In A Changing Environment

  8/28/2018

  Health is not just occasional moments throughout a lifespan, but an ongoing journey with unexpected turning points, peaks, and valleys. While the current healthcare system is centered around 15-minute appointments with doctors and specialists, most of what impacts one’s health occurs not during those visits, but in between them. During these long stretches of time, medications change, symptoms fluctuate, additional labs and tests are administered, and visits to other specialists are scheduled. Health-related decisions take place nearly every minute of every day.

• Improving Healthcare Providers' Virtualization Experience Via Thin Clients

  3/29/2017

  Today’s healthcare professionals want the same easy mobility and secure computing environment workers in other industries want. By Simon Clephan, Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, IGEL

• 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.

• Mismatched: How Patient Identification Errors Are Costing Patients And Health Systems

  11/29/2017

  Imagine two patients with the same last name, admitted for separate ailments at the same hospital. One is mistakenly treated with a medication intended for the other patient—and has a serious reaction to the drug. Patient mix-ups are all-too-frequent occurrences at many hospitals across the U.S., leading to redundant tests, wrong diagnoses, incorrect treatment services and unnecessary hospitalizations – while increasing costs.

• Global Trends Sweeping Healthcare: How Analytics Is Helping The Industry To Respond

  10/21/2015

  There is no doubt the healthcare industry is in the midst of transformative times, whether in terms of costs, pay structures, approaches or access. You name it, it’s changing. Five major global trends, tightly interconnected and relevant in both public and privately-funded healthcare environments, are driving much of the change. Here, we examine how healthcare organizations are responding and how analytics can support clinicians, patients’ and leaders during this critical time. By David Bolton, global industry solutions director for the public sector and healthcare, Qlik

• Non Profit Healthcare Provider Goes Mobile With Tablet Computers

  1/5/2012

  Swedish Medical Center in Washington was in search of a device that would allow its mobile nurses to update and access patient information on the go. With a main focus on connectivity and mobility, this case study highlights how the medical center identified and selected the right mobile device — a tablet computer — to fit their complex workflow.