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• How Telehealth Is Bridging The Mental Health Resources Gap

  11/27/2017
• Private Practice Streamlines Clinician And Patient Care Processes With Tablet Computing

  5/19/2011

  This case study highlights how Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire was able to gain real-time access to procedural information, eliminate duplication of effort, and increase data security by deploying 85 tablet PCs across its 15 healthcare departments. By Motion Computing, Inc.
• How To Excise The Risk Of Storing Healthcare Data In The Cloud

  5/25/2018

  Doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations are becoming ever-more reliant on diagnostic imaging via X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, tomography, and other formats. With increased usage of these types of images comes increased volume of data known as Digital Imaging in Communications in Medicine (DICOM) files.

• False Alarms Have Real Consequences In Hospitals

  10/23/2017

  As we go through our days, we are surrounded by a variety of alerts: clocks alarm in the morning, microwaves ding at lunch and dinner, smartphone reminders chirp throughout the day, and sounds of text messages are often in between. By Todd Plesko, Vice President of Product Strategy, Vocera Communications, Inc.

• How The New PQRI Will Affect Emergency Department Provider Documentation

  9/23/2009

  The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program instituted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has received changes for the 2008 calendar year. The PQRI program replaces the Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP) and involves all emergency care providers (i.e., physician assistants and nurse practitioners), not just physicians. CMS began collecting the PQRI data on July 1, 2007. Data reporting utilizes the CMS coding and billing infrastructure through the use of CPT Category II codes or in some instances G-codes. By T-System Inc.
• A Great Communications Strategy Is No Cure For A Terrible Cyber Security Plan

  5/15/2015

  It has been more than three months since 80 million people had their most sensitive data stolen during the largest healthcare data breach ever at Anthem Inc. From a crisis management perspective Anthem checked all the boxes. However, from an IT perspective, it failed to protect its customer data, allowing “hackers” to use a stolen employee password to access the database. Unfortunately for Anthem’s 80 million exposed customers, the company is learning its security lesson the hard way. For others in the healthcare industry it presents an opportunity to do better. By Cameron Burke, SVP Business Development, DeliverySlip