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• Understanding Compliance In The Cloud, Part 1

  2/10/2020

  The massive market shift from on-premise services to the cloud rolls on. And for the healthcare industry, a decision to jump on board with this kind of migration is more complex than simply choosing a cloud provider. Yet in order to stay competitive in a world of resilient, agile, and rapidly accessible infrastructure and interoperable data, healthcare providers, device manufacturers, prescription drug companies and many others are driven to pursue new and different storage and hosting solutions.

• Technology To Track The Spread Of COVID-19

  8/11/2020

  Practically the entire world is focused on stopping the spread of COVID-19. Many methods have come to mind for doing so. One is contact tracing. Though a bit controversial, there are technologies that can be used for this application. One such promising technology is to use a graph database. And it has already been proven in a real case.

• ML For Healthcare As A Requisite To Responsible Patient Care

  3/12/2019

  Big data has long since arrived in the healthcare provider industry. We live in a world where remote patient monitoring devices can generate hundreds of blood pressure readings per day, where every supply is tracked down to a strip of gauze, and millions of radiology images may reside within a single EHR server. But along with these piles of data come clinicians and analysts charged with sifting through them, and the herculean task of providing actionable insight.

• Telehealth Can Improve Satisfaction — But Only When Implemented With Patients' Needs In Mind

  7/25/2018

  There’s no shortage of news about telehealth’s ability to connect remote patients with highly qualified physicians through super-high-tech videoconferencing equipment. This is not surprising, considering that telehealth has shown a proven track record of helping to speed up the diagnosis of conditions such as stroke by connecting patients and remote specialty providers.

• Procurement Digitization: The Key To Price Transparency And Healthcare Transformation

  2/20/2020

  Healthcare continues to be a source of major concern in the United States, with recent polling indicating it is the number one issue to voters in the 2020 elections. Availability and cost, which are closely related, are the key reasons for this. Despite greater past media attention on pharmaceutical pricing, the single greatest contributor to overall healthcare costs (a whopping 18 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, or $11,172 per person in 2018), is actually hospitals. As a result, there has been growing attention on hospital pricing. The issues involved are more complex than they may appear but, fortunately, there is a clear path to improvement for both hospitals and patients.

• Factors To Consider When Switching EHRs

  3/28/2014

  David Gibbons, executive VP & COO at UPMC Hamot explains why the “Big Bang” approach was chosen over an evolutionary or staged approach, mentioning the distance from the core as UPMC as one reason.