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• 6 Ways Using Mobile Tablets For Patient Check-In Deliver ROI To Healthcare Enterprises

  3/12/2018

  The advancement and ubiquity of technology is providing health systems the option to rapidly migrate to tablet-based technology platforms, which increase patient engagement and deliver measurable return on investment.

• Priming Your Practice: Security Protection And Preparedness

  6/10/2019

  Providers should prioritize the safety of patient health information (PHI) and remain diligent about HIPAA security and privacy regulations, particularly if they want to survive the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits. Here’s a look at growing threats and ways medical practices can protect themselves.

• Italian Pharmacies Align With New Healthcare Tracking Laws Using Bar Code Technology

  11/22/2010

  This case study covers how Communal Pharmacies implemented handheld scanners to read bar codes on newly mandated Italian medical prescription pads. By Datalogic Scanning

• Reduce Lost Appointments By Aligning Digital Technology With Patient Behavior

  2/3/2016

  Historically, practices have had no-show rates ranging from 5 to 50 percent. The reality is, missed appointments happen and, when they do, cost the practice both time and money. There are numerous reasons why patients miss appointments, but many of them could have been prevented. By Tom Cox, CEO, MyHealthDirect

• Reimagining The Future Of Hospital Crisis Management

  8/20/2020

  COVID is the trigger that may be the ultimate transformation in healthcare. When the pandemic first hit, health systems went from managing a crisis occasionally to managing multifaceted situations every day. Healthcare organizations needed to reinvent themselves quickly and implement new approaches to everything. This ranged from workforce protection, supply chain and resource stabilization, patient flow and care protocols, and staff communication and engagement – all while dealing with a deadly respiratory pandemic, financial uncertainty, and typical seasonal emergencies, such as tornadoes.

• Mastering The Item Master – Data Governance In Healthcare

  5/2/2019

  Value-based care places many demands on health systems, most notably the importance of having a data governance strategy. Your data governance strategy should include data sources used by the EMR/EHR, ERP, MMIS, and financials systems. In many healthcare settings, the facility’s MMIS Item Master is the common data source used throughout the facilities systems and business processes, thus putting incredible pressure on the item master to be as accurate as possible. Vizient research shows that roughly 30 percent of the average item master contains bad data. (Vizient, 2018) As inferred above, the item master can impact multiple areas within a hospital. Areas most affected include purchasing, inventory management, clinical decision support, quality management, surgical supply documentation, value analysis, EMR documentation and third-party reimbursements to name a few, are all effected by the data you populate in the item master.