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• Time To Bring Automation To Prior Auth

  12/29/2017

  Prior auths may be as popular among providers as ants at a picnic, but they have become a common and necessary part of the reimbursement process. As a result, being able to manage prior auths efficiently is critical to maintaining a healthy revenue cycle and avoiding issues such as denied claims, administrative waste, excessive staff turnover and, of course, patient dissatisfaction.

• Guest Column: Providers' Perceptions: A Conversation With WellStar's Ron

  2/1/2011

  WellStar senior VP and CIO, Ron Strachan discusses the IT turnaround he has initiated during his tenure, and his facilities' path to Meaningful Use, Health Information Exchange, and Accountable Care Organizations. By Ron Strachan, senior VP and CIO, WellStar
• Technology Will Help Senior Care Facilities Manage The Tide Of The Growing Elder Population

  10/26/2015

  Despite the uptick in technology adoption by the healthcare industry overall, the implementation of health IT (HIT) in the senior care market is lagging behind in comparison to the rest of the healthcare market sectors. Long-term and skilled nursing facilities with EHR systems are seeing their benefits such as smoother transitions of care, staffing efficiencies and exchanging data between hospitals and physicians. So, despite the need for sophisticated health IT software to handle patient data generated by senior patients, why is the senior care industry slower to adopt these new capabilities? We can trace this to misconceptions about many things, most commonly concerns around cost and the belief that implementing an EHR will be disruptive to business. By Dave Wessinger, CTO, PointClickCare

• Protecting Your Network From Hackers

  4/7/2016

  Many healthcare organizations don’t realize just how many privileged accounts are on its network that insiders have access to. Periodically taking inventory of these accounts and getting rid of those that aren’t needed can go a long way toward protecting your organization’s network: think of it as a new type of spring cleaning.

• Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

  10/22/2015

  Netherlands-based Leiden University Medical Center deploys an IoT time tracking solution to reduce time-to-treatment for heart attack patients. By Adebayo Onigbanjo, Director of Marketing, Zebra Technologies’ New Growth Platforms Team

   

• 5 Tips For Tackling HIPAA Compliance Challenges

  3/8/2017

  Regulations such as HIPAA are in place to protect sensitive protected health information, but the threat landscape is ever changing. With healthcare organizations the target of 88 percent of all ransomware attacks, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued new HIPAA guidance on ransomware attacks in July last year.