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The pressure to continually do more work with fewer resources is never-ending for today’s health care providers. Government agencies, auditors, payers and patients place undue burdens on hospitals with their demands for immediate service, complete
transparency, and relentless reporting. From the providers’ perspective, it is often a losing battle. Deadlines are missed and reports are delayed. For ...
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APP Design, Inc.
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After decades of significant technological advancements, a substantial part of the practice of medicine and the business of healthcare is still dependent upon getting information from point A to point B. Recent technological innovations, however, have the potential to change the model in which care is delivered, and the way that organizations manage the business of healthcare.
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AT&T Intellectual Property.
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As the Hurricane Katrina disaster demonstrated in 2005, the American health care system and the underlying physical and informational infrastructure that supports it is incredibly fragile. In the aftermath of the hurricane recovery operation, paper-based health records were destroyed and proved quite difficult to reproduce. Of all of the evacuees who moved from New Orleans to a new location, the ...
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Compliance with HIPAA privacy regulations places a significant legal and financial burden on healthcare facilities. Public and private organizations have produced different figures for the cost of compliance with estimates ranging from $3.8 billion to
upwards of $250 billion to develop and implement solutions over a 5 to 10 year period. No matter what the final figure, compliance is an expensive ...
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Outsourcing is defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production to an external entity that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing, over the last ten years, has received an undeserved bad “rap” due to the many jobs that have left the country to go overseas. This area is a subset of outsourcing called “off shoring” and is not the subject of this white ...
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