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• Digital Transformation Of Healthcare: Best Of Breed Supply Chain Technology Vs. ERP

  11/18/2020

  The healthcare industry is in dire need of change. With costs going up and reimbursements and margins going down even before Covid-19, transformation is afoot. A major area of transformation and one that this crisis has highlighted is the supply chain. The healthcare supply chain is unique in its own right but in many ways, it lags behind other industries in terms of best practices and digitization.

• Can AI Propel Us Towards Universal Health Coverage?

  7/2/2019

  The World Health Organization defines universal health coverage as ensuring that everyone can obtain the care they need, when they need it, right in the heart of their own communities. While countries in all regions of the world continue to make progress toward these goals, millions of people still have no access to healthcare. Considering this stark reality, it’s imperative we ask ourselves, how might advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) improve healthcare access and outcomes globally?

• HIPAA 2015: Will You Be Ready?

  2/4/2015

  The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is getting serious, and so should you. It’s time to move beyond just having a binder full of policies sitting on a shelf. You must educate your workforce so that each and every member, from top to bottom, understands the practical, day-to-day application of your security policies and can demonstrate compliance. The OCR has the ability to level fines, which start at a minimum of $10,000 (it goes up from there, based on severity), for what has been called “willful neglect of compliance.” By Jim Tufts, Health IT Consultant, ICE Technologies, Inc.

• Is It Time To Get Away From The Idea Of “Patient Experience”?

  11/5/2020

  For the last 20 years, the healthcare industry has been slowly shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care. We’ve seen the advent of the triple aim, the quadruple aim, pay-for-performance, and ACOs. All of this in an attempt to move from paying for healthcare based on quantity to paying for quality and outcomes. In the meantime, we’ve also seen a rise in consumerism and a focus on patient experience. And we tie those to the goals of value-based care. But the very word experience suggests we are still thinking about healthcare as episodic, and episodic care is susceptible to massive disruptions like those we’ve seen with COVID-19.

• Where Are The Wearables? The State And Future Of Health Monitors In Hospitals And Clinics

  2/1/2016

  While wearable activity trackers have been commercially available since the 2009 release of the original Fitbit, investments in new technology has evolved these trackers into all-around health monitors. These relatively new devices can go beyond simple pedometer functions of their predecessors by integrating real time bio-analytics. By Cameron Roche, Research Analyst at VDC Research

   

• Cybersecurity For C-level Healthcare Executives

  10/26/2018

  Along with mitigating risk at an individual level, there’s an obvious requirement to ensure the systems, networks, and devices we rely on are protected against attacks from an ever-increasing number of malicious actors. Several attacks have gained ground in recent months to devastating effect, and its C-level executives that carry the ultimate responsibility for resolving these issues and preventing future catastrophe.