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• EMR Roadblock Assuaged

  8/7/2012

  The transition to electronic charting in low-acuity environments is one thing; the transition in high-acuity departments is quite another. In critical care and ICUs, nurses spend an astounding amount of time checking — and rechecking — each patient’s status.

• 3 Best Practices To Establish Clinicians As Value-Based Care Navigators

  5/25/2016

  The shift to Value-Based Care (VBC) has not been a seamless journey for the healthcare industry, specifically for providers. With a fast approaching, CMS-mandated VBC deadline for 2018 and an industry-wide initiative towards population health, the time is now for healthcare organizations to make strides toward the future model with the help of quality-driven clinicians supported by accessible, easy-to-use analytics.

• The e-Prescribing Evolution: Today's Benefits And Tomorrow's Possibilities

  1/3/2017

  Less than a decade ago, only 7 percent of physicians prescribed medications through EHRs. Thanks to regulatory nudges and incentive programs such as 2009’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, along with advances in health IT solutions stemming from those movements, like Meaningful Use, that rate jumped to 70 percent in 2014

• Technology Partner Should Offer Rapid, Simple And Powerful Data Analytic Tools To Inspire Budgeting Confidence

  1/19/2017

  Healthcare IT platforms available to monitor and analyze purchased services spending data are limited. This is surprising considering up to 45 percent of a hospital’s or health system’s non-labor budget is spent on purchased services, meaning millions of dollars are being spent without the level of scrutiny it deserves. By Chris Heckler, CEO, Valify

• Age-In-Place Storage: When Not To Tier And Migrate Active Data

  11/12/2009

  We acknowledge the changes in file reference behavior are subtle, consistent, and complex. There are two ways to “look” at any file on a Unix file system4. The most common is with the file’s path and name, which is exactly what people and most programs do when they open or close a file as we look at a directory structure. Even so, names are not used to mange files. By Randy Chalfant
• DCH Health Reduces Costs, Denied Claims, A/R Days And $23.9M In Receivables Using CareMedic's eFR®

  10/21/2009

  When it was built in 1916, no one imagined the quaint Druid City Infi rmary would eventually be transformed into today’s DCH Health System (DCH), the largest healthcare provider in West Alabama. Serving seven counties through its four locations, community-owned DCH generates approximately $1.5B in annual gross revenue. By CareMedic Systems, Inc.