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• The Patient Safety Risks Of EHR Errors

  12/6/2019

  Accurate patient identification is fundamental component to safe care delivery. Yet, providers remain daunted by electronic health record (EHR) systems that contain errors and fail to communicate or transmit information effectively. The issue of poor patient identification becomes exponentially more problematic and dangerous as more data is generated and more applications are introduced into the healthcare environment.

• 2 Metrics For Monitoring Hospital IT ROI

  8/10/2015

  If your community hospital recently invested a lot of time or money on IT (or is planning to in the near future), you must know how to effectively determine if your investment is paying off and delivering value to patients, clinicians, and your organization. An excellent way to determine clinician value is to measure your hospital technology’s availability, responsiveness, and user adoption. Here’s a quick crash course on how to ensure your shiny new IT system is well-oiled and your drivers aren’t stuck in neutral. By Phil Stravers, ICE Technologies

• Ransomware And Healthcare: Defending Against Today's Most Devastating Attack

  6/2/2017

  In early 2016, the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center became the “poster child” for ransomware when an attack shut down the organization’s IT systems for more than a week before hospital officials agreed to pay $17,000 in bitcoin to their attackers. By Terry Ray, Chief Product Strategist, Imperva, Inc.

• Why You Should Move Your Practice To The Cloud

  4/30/2015

  Looking for medical software as a method for better managing your practice? It may be time to consider a program hosted in the cloud. By Zach Watson, content manager, TechnologyAdvice

• Putting Patients First

  9/6/2017

  I once heard someone say, “If healthcare were treated like any other service industry, it would be out of business within a week.” By Dr. Tom Schwieterman, vice president, Clinical Affairs and CMO, Midmark Corporation

• Guest Column: How Can Document Scanning Protect You From Swine Flu?

  9/23/2009

  It’s the biggest healthcare story of 2009. The World Health Organization has declared the swine flu pandemic the first in 41 years. In order to manage this crisis, the healthcare community will need to use technology to track patients and countermeasures in order to quickly analyze what is working and what needs to be changed. By Mike Stuhley is the president of GoScan, Inc.