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• 5 Project Management Lessons For Healthcare

  10/28/2015

  Project management offers a variety of methods and tools that hospital leaders can implement to increase the quality of the care and optimize processes in a hospital. However, staying focused on how best to execute project management methodologies is often hard, especially when being under time, budget, and legal constraints. So, let’s take a look at five project management lessons worth incorporating into healthcare. By Andreas Tremel, Co-Founder and CEO, InLoox

• Technology Options For Healthcare Color Label & Wristband Printing

  10/14/2009

  Color has earned a permanent place in healthcare processes because it has proven to be an effective enhancement to labels, files, forms and wristbands. Selective, appropriate use of color can enhance patient safety by providing an extra visual reminder to differentiate potential lookalike or soundalike medications, highlight dosages, dietary restrictions, allergies and other alerts, and to easily identify specimens to streamline sorting and prioritize processing. Color on files, records, specimen labels, test orders, meal tickets and other documents also supports more efficient workflows. By Epson America, Inc.
• 10 Things You Need To Know Before Creating A Strategic Workforce Management System

  2/21/2017

  Rising labor costs, a competitive hiring market, value-based payment models, and millennial worker expectations are rapidly changing the healthcare workforce landscape. By Alan Bateman, Director of Health Industry Workforce Management Strategy at Infor

• Tips On Wandering Alzheimer's Patients

  11/30/2009

  It is suggested that nearly 70% of people with Alzheimer’s disease will wander away from home and get lost. Wandering is one of the biggest risks for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and is a common but dangerous symptom of the disease. A wanderer is someone with a disease such as Alzheimer’s who has wandered away on their own free-will from their caregiver. By Karen Cinpinski, Accutech-ICS
• The Power Of Real-Time Analytics At The Point Of Care

  12/14/2015

  There has been a lot of talk about transforming healthcare into an industry that leverages real-time analytics. Sadly, while the cost of a purchased cup of coffee at Starbucks appears on your iPhone in seconds and your 401k reflects every change in holding and values at any given moment, healthcare has not made it easy for clinicians to leverage similar technology. In fact, patients and physicians are often left in the dark for months after clinical events, greatly limiting the industry’s efforts to improve quality and efficiency. The infrastructure is there, and so is the technology. The only thing left is a company that will engineer the software itself. By Dan Rizzo, CIO, Inovalon

• How Ruggedness Reduces TCO For Mobile Computers — VDC Research Presented By Intermec

  6/22/2011

  General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight, and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). By Intermec, Inc.