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• Can HIPAA Keep Up With Rapidly Evolving Consumer Technologies?

  9/8/2016

  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), legislation that exists to safeguard private medical information, could be creating more problems than it is preventing. By Gene Fry, Scrypt, Inc.

• Move Over Functional Obsolescence: Cybersecurity Is Driving Lifecycle Management For Connected Medical Devices

  3/7/2018

  As CIO’s and CISO’s who walk the halls of healthcare institutions know all too well, the number of devices being enabled in the Internet of Things and Internet of Medical Things around us is exploding exponentially. With this explosion, complexities arise in security, data collection, storage, and especially lifecycle management. Devices have varying degrees of security and lifespans that range from two years up to 15 years, adding complications to management strategies.

• How Actionable Data Can Assist In The Operating Room

  12/14/2017

  Today’s hospitals face relentless pressure to improve quality, especially in the operating room. This challenge requires insights into root causes of problems and unnecessary clinical variations, which are notoriously difficult to diagnose.

• New Business Models For The Emerging Consumer-Driven On-Demand Healthcare Economy

  1/26/2018

  Convenience, simplicity, speed and immediate satisfaction are the hallmarks of the on-demand economy. Broadly defined as business activity created by technology platforms that fulfill consumer demand via the immediate provisioning of goods and services, the on-demand economy has disrupted virtually every industry. Healthcare tends to think of itself as unique—and immune–but the platform economy is already at work in the industry.

• How To Identify Patient Retention And Leakage 'Forks In The Road' And Choose The Right Path

  12/9/2019

  Patient leakage from a health system network is an emerging critical issue facing healthcare leaders. As Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements continue to negatively affect operating margins for even high-performing health systems, competition for privately insured patients is increasing. To compensate for flat or shrinking fee-for-service revenue from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, many health systems are participating in the agency’s value-based care payment programs; while this presents new revenue opportunities, it also puts pressure on systems to improve outcomes.

• Put Away The Checkbook, It's Time To Pay The Doctor Online

  5/3/2018

  When was the last time you used a check to pay for anything? I can’t remember the last time I used a paper check. Was it five or 10 years ago? I’m not entirely sure. But one place checks are still in use is at your doctor’s office. And it has to stop. Really. What was once a convenient payment method is now antiquated and should be retired as digital payments have become ubiquitous and secure.