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• Closing The Compliance Software Gap

  10/18/2019

  Building in effective security controls into application development will help ensure patient data privacy.

• 65 Percent Of Patient-Doctor Interactions Through Mobile Devices?

  6/7/2018

  With millions of mobile applications available to users and mobile based solutions being used in nearly every single healthcare organization across the world, mobile technology is a great industry anticipated to remain developing over the next many years. Some of the reports suggest that the international mobile health industry is estimated to generate more than $28 billion in 2018.

• Top 5 Takeaways From The Federal HIT Strategic Plan

  2/6/2015

  The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released, for public comment, their Federal Health IT Strategic plan covering 2015 to 2020. The strategic plan is divided into five major goals guided by a “collect, share, and use” methodology: Expand Adoption of Health IT (Collect); Advance Secure and Interoperable Health Information (Share); Strengthen Healthcare Delivery (Use); Advance the Health and Well-Being of Individuals and Communities (Use); Advance Research, Scientific Knowledge, and Innovation (Use). By Paul Sliva, Health IT Consultant, ICE Technologies, Inc.

• Healthcare On Cloud Nine: Top 8 Benefits Of Healthcare-Cloud Merger

  12/20/2019

  Rising healthcare promises have been tied to cloud technology in the most recent tech-talks of the town. While the majority of care providers are not holding their breath due to previous disappointments, we wanted to translate the often-vague statements made into discrete simplified processes for healthcare.

• Could RFID Help Support Electronic Health Records?

  11/10/2010

  Electronic health records EHRs would provide healthcare professionals with electronic access to an individual’s medical history, even when that history has been recorded by multiple providers. Therefore, the EHR system necessitates inter-operable communication of standardized data between hospitals and physicians. In our view, RFID could play a potential role in the development of these health records, particularly given the tight timeframe that needs to be followed. The Department of Health and Human Services needs to issue its Interim Final Rule by December 31, 2009 and legislative incentives begin in 2011. By Reik Read, Robert W. Baird & Co.
• 3 Ways Your Company Wins When You Say Goodbye To Fax

  5/25/2018

  Not long ago, I had a candid conversation with the vice president of a regional senior care facility. "We just can't get away from fax," he told me. Despite having transformed the facility into a paperless office, his team still had to send faxes because many primary care physicians require it.