HTO MAGAZINE CONTENT

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  A BYOD Backlash?

  This year, I had the honor of speaking at the 2013 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. The focus of my presentation was the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend that is currently sweeping healthcare. My goal was to provide healthcare IT executives with the information necessary to establish a BYOD program that caters to employee demands while ensuring that corporate assets and health data are secure.

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  The Rise Of mHealth

  Healthcare is currently wrapped in a cloud of mobility, but what applications hold the most promise for providers and their patients, and what does the future hold?

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  Can Telehealth Become Mainstream Medicine?

  As the healthcare industry moves toward adopting more technology, telehealth programs are popping up around the country. Two healthcare facilities explain how their telehealth systems keep patients connected and improve care quality.

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  Stage 2 MU Sticking Points

  Patient engagement and medical image integration are the top Stage 2 Meaningful Use concerns for many providers. Learn how these four EHR early adopters plan to tackle these issues and achieve successful attestation.

FROM THE EDITOR

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  A Golden Lesson In Patient Care

  It’s amazing to me how a television show that first aired back in 1989 (that’s 24 years ago folks) is still so relevant today. As far as the healthcare industry has come from a technology and treatment standpoint in the past two-and-a-half decades, we haven’t made much progress when it comes to how physicians interact with their patients. Many are still woefully poor performers when it comes to listening, communicating, and compassion.

GUEST CONTRIBUTORS

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  Conquering Risk Aversion In Healthcare

  Looking at Fast Company’s list of the 50 Most Innovative Companies, I was struck by the conspicuous under-representation from an entire industry.   Not just any industry, but one where the U.S. spends $2.7 trillion every year and industry costs are growing three times faster than wages: healthcare.

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  Healthcare Providers: Are You Providing Enough Data Security?

  CIO’s and IT professionals in healthcare organizations are tasked with achieving a balance between the demand for universal access to information and the need to ensure security. As Sheranga Jayasinghe, Director, Information Technology at Canada’s Sunrise Health Region says, “By its very nature, healthcare creates a number of unique challenges, from a highly mobile workforce to government-mandated patient confidentiality requirements.” The move toward electronic health records (EHRs) and pressure from regulations like HIPAA, which restricts the number of eyes permitted to see an individual’s confidential information, will only continue to grow.

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  Taking The Pulse Of Mobile Health

  It’s no secret the healthcare industry is going digital. Electronic health records, health information exchanges, and Web-based patient portals are becoming ubiquitous features in nearly all clinical environments. But the fastest, most widely adopted digital push, according to healthcare industry experts, has undoubtedly been in mobile health.

FEATURE ARTICLES

FEATURED SUPPLIERS

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  MaaS360 by Fiberlink

  With 20 years of experience in delivering enterprise mobility management solutions, Fiberlink has the in-depth functional and technical expertise necessary to accelerate deployment, reduce risk, increase employee productivity, and simplify mobile device management.

   

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  dbtech

  A leading provider of solutions to manage, share and protect mission-critical content since 1983, dbtech Ras is currently installed in over 150 community hospitals.

  Our Interactive eForms and Ras document management platforms provide a central repository for a wide range of essential data – from legal documents and billing paperwork to clinical records And, all dbtech solutions from interactive eForms and patient folders to document management and workflow automation solutions work seamlessly with your existing HIT system to drive administrative costs out of the hospital and optimize your revenue cycle.

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  Motion Computing, Inc.

  Motion Computing® is a global leader in mobile computing solutions, combining world-class products with services customized for the unique needs of target vertical markets, including healthcare.

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  KeyMark Inc.

  KeyMark Inc. is an award-winning solutions provider. We automate business processes with document management, advanced data capture and workflow while leveraging your current systems — without required programming.

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EXECUTIVE PODCAST SERIES

• Protecting Your Patients From Medical Identity Theft Podcast

  Medical identity theft is becoming a concern of epidemic proportions for patients, healthcare providers and healthcare plans. Not only is the Federal Government cracking down on fraud, but healthcare providers are striving to implement policies, procedures and technologies that will help them minimize the risk of data exposure.

• The Value Of A Perioperative EHR In this podcast, Kermit Randa, senior VP of sales and marketing for Surgical Information Systems provides Healthcare Technology Online's editor in chief Ken Congdon with his insights on why specialty EHR platforms, such as perioperative systems, are vital to the health information management efforts of today's hospitals. The podcast addresses key differences between perioperative EHRs and enterprise EHRs and key HIT challenges that require specialization. In response to the question of why are operating room and perioperative services so important to hospitals today, Randa says "The OR, according to HFMA, is about 70% of the revenue of the average hospital, 60% of the margin, and 40% to 60% of the supply costs. Additionally, about half the errors caused in the hospital are done in the operating room. So, when you start to look at what’s happening today, the hospitals are in need of radical change."

HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY NEWS

• American Addiction Centers Deploys Xirrus Wi-Fi Network
• DoctorBase Doubles User Base To 10,000 Doctors In One Year On Its mHealth-As-A-Service Platform
• Allscripts Lawsuit Serves As Warning To Physicians
• ibml Announces SoftTrac Synergetics Advanced Capture Solution
• The ERx Group Leverages T-System To Bring More Value To Hospitals

FEATURED PRODUCTS

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  JACO Customer Service JACO Inc, a leader in providing electronic medical record (EMR) mobility carts to the healthcare industry, has announced an initiative to offer its products direct to hospitals, group purchasing organizations (GPO’s) and healthcare buying groups across the United States and Canada.
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  Enovate Mobile & Wall Emagination Stations

  Staying in an unknown environment with big medical equipment can be scary for little ones. That’s why Enovate created the Emagination Stations product line – products designed to give children a friendly face during recovery.

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  ZirMed Electronic Remittance Advices

  Physician practices have long known that the manual processes supporting paper-based remittance systems are fragmented, inefficient and error-prone. 

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  QLn 320™ Mobile Label Printer Zebra’s QL™ family of direct thermal mobile printers has built a highly satisfied following through its proven drop-resistant durability; user-friendly, productivity-boosting features; and easy integration.
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  OpenText RightFax Fax Server

  Whether your organization is small, medium or large, OpenText RightFax meets these challenges by integrating and automating fax and document distribution with your existing business applications.