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• Roadmap To Cost Savings By Improving Care Variation

  5/22/2017

  To improve margins, healthcare providers must bend the cost curve to reduce wasteful spending as the industry moves from fee-for-service to value-based payments, while facing the prospect of declining reimbursement. However, many provider organizations do not know or understand where they may be losing money due to deviation from commonly accepted clinical based guidelines. By Susan Kanvik and Mitzi Raaf, Point B Management Consultants

• Digital Transformation: Tech Challenges For Healthcare Modernization

  4/11/2018

  The healthcare industry is in the midst of a dramatic digital transformation, marked by a host of new back-end technologies that promise to modernize hospitals and lay the foundation for a truly digital workplace in the year ahead. Hospitals and healthcare systems are challenged with striking a delicate balance between running a smooth, efficient operation while remaining flexible and devoted to patient care in a modern age. This creates significant procurement challenges, requiring hospitals to embrace new technologies and innovations at a seemingly breakneck pace while also keeping an eye on the bottom line.

• GDPR Vs. HIPAA — Noting The Differences

  12/15/2017

  If you are in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the European Union, you may have already started working towards GDPR compliance. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is a set of compliance requirements that comes into effect in May 2018 and will apply to any organization that deals with data provided by citizens of the European Union. In other words, this ruling can apply to your organization even if you are based outside the EU but handle data pertaining to patients from the EU.

• Automate And Audit Access Rights In A Healthcare Environment

  3/3/2017

  Access to critical data is paramount criteria for success in today’s electronic world. Physicians and caregivers need access to patients’ records to insure proper delivery of care, but encumbering employees and internal stakeholders with too many restrictions to systems or complicated access methodologies can have catastrophic consequences.

• How To Increase Network Security And Productivity

  4/18/2017

  Healthcare is currently experiencing a number of high-profile technological advancements and, as a result, a renewed focus on increasing network security by restricting access to data. By Dean Wiech, managing director, Tools4ever

• Preventing Medical Identity Theft

  9/21/2009

  Medical identity theft is also a very dangerous issue. This type of theft can expose a person’s sensitive personal information which can then be used by fraudsters to get medical treatments, benefits, prescription drugs and generally defraud the medical system. By Shred-It