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• How Imaging Interoperability Creates Value For Emerging Healthcare Models

  11/14/2016

  Value-based imaging, according to the American College of Radiology’s Imaging 3.0 initiative, is the path to moving radiology as a specialty out of the fee-for-service modality and into the care-quality improvement and patient-experience enrichment model upon which reimbursements for all healthcare providers will soon be based. By Matthew Michela, President and CEO, lifeIMAGE

• The Smart Way For Healthcare Organizations To Go Mobile

  6/10/2014

  On January 1, 2014, a key prOvisiOn Of the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 went into effect, requiring healthcare providers across the country to adopt and demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (eMr) in order to maintain their existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels.

• Surgical Services Firm Speeds Search And Retrieval Of Vital Documents With KnowledgeLake

  1/12/2017

  AMSURG has a large presence nationwide. It has more than 250 ASCs in 34 states and provides physician services in 24 states, employing more than 2,800 physicians and other healthcare professionals. This vast network of healthcare facilities and practitioners generates an immense amount of financial documentation, particularly at the end of each month. The methods that the company used in the past for backing up its accounting documents were outdated and inefficient.

• Adaptation: The Key To Future HIM Success

  9/16/2015

  It’s a known fact in the animal kingdom that all organisms need to adapt to their habitat to survive. Take the camel, for example. Their long eyelashes, ability to open and close their nostrils, wide feet, fluctuating body temperature, storage of fat (not water) in their humps, plus their sandy color allow them to successfully survive in the harshest of desert conditions. Given the evolving healthcare landscape, it should come as no surprise that HIM professionals will need to adapt and refine their skill sets if they too want to meet the future challenges of the profession. The seismic shifts that are occurring across the healthcare industry are causing significant disruption to the status quo—but this massive change is also creating significant opportunity for HIM professionals. By Karen Snyder, Director of Healthcare Consulting, Iron Mountain

• How Virtua Healthcare Transitioned To An IP-Based Surveillance System

  6/27/2013

  Since Virtua’s facilities have the latest, state-of-the- art digital equipment, Virtua administrators felt it was necessary to upgrade their video surveillance to safeguard its tools. Their current surveillance system included a number of analog cameras that were not meeting their coverage capabilities and video resolution needs. The video management system (VMS) software became too cumbersome to operate on a daily basis, missing the ability to access usable recorded images.

• Provena Health's Home Care Agencies Realize Dramatic Improvements In Patient Care And Company Profitability With Fujitsu Life-Book Notebooks

  7/22/2009

  Equip home care nurses with Fujitsu LifeBook P1500 Series notebooks and a patient information system to enable collection of patient information at the point of care. By Fujitsu