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Accountable Care: Let The Work Begin
1/5/2012
Hospitals looking to participate in a formal ACO or to develop an informal coordinated care strategy have their work cut out for them. By Whitney L.J. Howell
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Does HIMSS Level 7 Really Mean Paperless?
12/14/2011
In this blog excerpt, the author assesses the reality and attainability of a truly paperless healthcare environment. By Amy Lockton, Sales Solution Manager — Healthcare, Perceptive Software
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Making The Emergency Department Profitable With IT
11/28/2011
How to center your hospital system's finance strategy around the ED and how an EDIS (Emergency Department Information System) can help. By Steve Armond, chief financial officer, T-System, Inc. and Robert Hitchcock, MD, chief medical informatics officer, T-System, Inc.
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Adding ECM To The EHR Equation
11/24/2011
The healthcare industry is in the midst of radical transformation, and documents are at the heart of the revolution — with good reason.
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Accountable Care Trends, Strategies, And Best Practices
11/8/2011
This article provides advice on how private practices can merge health IT with payers, patient engagement, and liquid data to form accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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You've Scanned Your Healthcare Documents … Now What?
11/8/2011
Scanning is just the first step in an optimized workflow for paper based clinical documents. The goal behind any clinical scanning process should be to enhance your operational efficiency and improve the quality of patient care.
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Why Email Encryption Is Crucial In The EHR Age
8/25/2011
This article uncovers the vulnerabilities inherent in email communication and why email encryption is crucial to protecting PHI in this era of EHR ubiquity. By Daniel Stevens, Chief Executive Officer, Send Technology Inc.
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Data Capture: Success In Healthcare
7/21/2011
Companies across all vertical markets continue to realize the benefit of transforming paper documentation into digital data. The reasons cited most often include increased efficiency, reducedstorage requirements, and even compliance. By Vicki Amendola, editor, Jameson Publishing
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Guest Column: Are Nurse Call Systems Dead?
7/19/2011
CEO, Andrew Rothon, looks at the unprecedented fundamental challenge faced by the Healthcare Industry. That is; how to cope with ever-increasing patient numbers in the face of rising operational costs and tight budgets? It's a challenge that will continue for the rest of this decade. By Andrew Rothan, CEO, Next Intelligence Health, Inc.(NIQ)
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Guest Column: Physicians (At Last) Can Issue E-Prescriptions For Controlled Substances
7/19/2011
Physicians are no longer forced by the DEA to use paper-based prescriptions for controlled substances. E-Prescribing is now a viable option for these drugs, and it's poised to save physicians time and money, while improving patient safety. By Thomas E. Sullivan, M.D., and chief strategic officer of DrFirst