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• EHRs Continue To Lead The Way In The New Healthcare Environment

  4/13/2016

  The EHR has come a long way since its inception. Initially designed to electronically capture the patient visit, it has morphed into an integral tool for patient and provider communication as well as data management and analysis. Overall, this technology has been helpful in prompting healthcare organizations to shift away from paper and will continue to push the industry to a new era of care.

• Improving Care And Bolstering Revenue With The Gift Of Time

  5/1/2015

  In the highly competitive health system market, savvy hospitals are stepping up to make their resources go further and work harder, and are recovering their most valuable resource of all, time, in order to keep revenue flowing into their health system and keep patients and providers collaborative and happy. By Bill Reid, SVP of Product Management and Partners, SCI Solutions

• National Health IT Week: Streamlining Patient Care by Minimizing Alarm Fatigue

  10/5/2015

  National Health IT Week is about recognizing the ways delivery of care is changing. Healthcare is in a period of transition that is changing how care is delivered. Health information is shared, quality is measured, reimbursements are dispersed, and patients are becoming engaged in their own. Today’s technology is advancing quickly and is a reliable tool to support these changes and advancements. Nurses are at the forefront of transforming care with increased responsibility placed on them to achieve better patient outcomes. As nurses balance delivering care at more reasonable costs with providing chronic care management to an aging, sicker, and more diverse population, supporting technology must be finely tuned to meet their needs. By Rhonda Collins, Chief Nursing Officer, Vocera Communications

• Optimizing EMRs To Lessen Administrative Burdens

  2/8/2019

  Despite the current emphasis on streamlining healthcare delivery, the administrative burdens placed on today’s healthcare providers—physicians, nurses, medical assistants and office staff—are heavier than they have ever been. Between managing diverse information coming into the organization, ensuring it ends up in the right place within the electronic medical record (EMR), correctly capturing every element of a patient encounter, and accurately coding it to support proactive and comprehensive care, providers have a lot of non-clinical tasks on their plates. Amid these competing priorities, they are also expected to deliver a consistent, compassionate patient experience and smoothly handle unexpected situations.

• Guest Column: Prepare For The New Patient Influx

  5/28/2010

  It is already difficult for some of us to find a primary care physician. So how can our country accommodate an influx 32 million newly insured patients under healthcare reform when the system is already overburdened? The fact that only 4% of new doctors choose to become primary care physicians each year suggests the problem will only get worse.
• The New Middle Ground – Hybrid Clouds

  11/17/2014

  Without dispute, cloud computing ranks as one of the most significant technological developments in recent years. And like many major advancements, it comes with controversy and challenges. Still being disputed is the suitability of the cloud in compliance-centric industries. Many healthcare organizations still question whether the essential benefits of the cloud – elasticity and quicker deployments – are outweighed by the perceived risks related to security, compliance, and reliability. By Mika Javanainen, senior director of product management, M-Files Corporation