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• Achieving A Supply Chain That Can With Stand Any Disruption

  1/17/2018

  Nothing strikes fear and anxiety into the hearts and minds of supply chain departments across the country faster than the local news outlet predicting bad weather on the horizon. From an impending snow storm up north, to a catastrophic hurricane on the east coast, or a raging wild fire out west, the initial reaction within a healthcare supply chain department is panic. Do we have enough supplies? What will we need? Should we order more of everything?

• IoT And Healthcare: Is Your Body The Next Target For Hackers

  6/28/2016

  Healthcare cybersecurity primarily focuses on protecting breaches of patients’ private medical data and, more recently, on preventing ransomware attacks that can lock health professionals out of their systems and make electronic medical records inaccessible. However, as wearable and implantable medical devices are developed and grow in popularity, another concern arises: the potential for hackers to actually attack the body of patients.

• White Paper: Security Management: The Evolution Of Identity And Access Management

  11/11/2009

  Over the past decade, the role that IT plays in the corporate landscape has evolved at a pace that Darwin would find astounding. In an effort to survive, the fittest IT professionals have rapidly adapted a business-savvy persona, and, in most cases, business people are rapidly becoming more IT proficient. By Bilhar Mann
• Closing Gaps In Care With Digital Care Coordination

  1/4/2019

  The rates for closing gaps in care are some of the most widely used, quantitative metrics to measure quality, allocate incentives, and control costs. Both health plans and providers are each financially incentivized to close gaps in care. For health plans, programs through Medicaid (HEDIS) and Medicare (STARS) have meaningful incentives and/or penalties tied to a members’ ability to receive certain healthcare services. Similarly, valued-based providers can control costs by providing certain recurring services to their patients. Fee for service providers also benefit from the additional volume generated by closing gaps in care. Gap closure uniquely aligns quality and financial incentives across health plans and providers.

• Using De-identification To Break The 80/20 Rule Of Health Data

  3/23/2016

  Recent initiatives supporting advanced medical research and precision medicine have underscored the importance of enabling access to health data to develop new ways to diagnose, treat, and potentially cure what ails us.

• Patients Trust Online Reviews As Much As Doctor Recommendations (And Other Shocking Facts About Transparency In Healthcare)

  11/9/2018

  Businesses everywhere are feeling the pressure to be more transparent. Online ratings and reviews started with retail shopping and quickly expanded from there. Now they’re a fixture that people expect to see when they’re searching for anything, from dog walkers to job opportunities.