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Downsizing in a tumultuous economy. How can Human Resource Departments make well-thought-out decisions on reduction in force? "Where do they get the data to make smart decisions and how can they make good choices that won’t have a long-term impact?"
Unfortunately, companies will need to continue to downsize and the unemployment rate is predicted to continually rise. With such somber news, how will Human Resource Departments be able to make well-thought out decisions on reduction in ...
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is a broad and comprehensive set of regulations requiring healthcare organizations to address privacy and security concerns related to electronically stored and transmitted healthcare data. HIPAA’s Security Rule mandates technical safeguards and further details the security standards to be implemented by organizations for the protection of electronic data. Although the Security Rule provides covered entities with ...
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This white paper highlights Windows Embedded technology, which is being widely accepted and proven technology in the field of Medical Device manufacture and production. This white paper is an effort to highlight some of the crucial features and application areas of Windows Embedded technology for Medical Instrumentation and control.
As the Medical healthcare industry increasingly demands more intelligent and reliable systems that works seamlessly together, the Microsoft Windows Embedded ...
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Anyone who needs to fill out a form should be able to find it on the web, fill it out on a computer and submit it electronically. For companies and government agencies who want to migrate from the paper world to the electronic world using the same forms and processes they use currently; Formatta eForms provide a clear migration path from paper to electronic processing.
As the table above illustrates, true, electronic forms can help both agencies and applicants (form users) take advantage of ...
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Introduction to Biometric Solutions in Computing Devices................................. ......... 2 Windows Biometric Framework............................... ........................................ .......................................3 Key IT/Security Drivers for Deployment OF Biometric Solutions............................... . 5 E-commerce and Risk of Identity Theft ........................................ ........................................ ..................5 Scalability and ...
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Migrating Microfilm, Microfiche and Aperture Card Records Enhancing Quality & Preserving Record Context after Conversion By Brad Penfold, BMI Imaging Systems (www.bmiimaging.com)
Commercial organizations and government agencies continue to pursue the model of a comprehensive, computerized database of When evaluating microfilm- information. As these organizations look at based conversion solutions, microfilm conversion projects, consideration consider the following: should be given to ...
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How Ruggedness Reduces TCO for Mobile Computers
General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, are designed for different tasks, and also vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). Organizations can’t afford to overlook this important difference in challenging times when all costs are under scrutiny and funds for new equipment are oftentimes limited. ...
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Innovative Solutions for Investment Management
Innovation & Proven Reliability Since 1983
Setting the Standard for Investment Technology
25 Years of Innovation Advent pioneered the investment management technology industry in 1983 and continues to set a standard for innovation that is unequaled. Our solutions reflect an in-depth understanding of the investment industry and what it takes to succeed—based on 25 years of working with firms like yours. As the world’s financial markets evolve, ...
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Creating the end-to-end, top-to-bottom supply chain is a vision in implementation for many supply chain managers. It requires responsive real-time visual smart solutions. Business capabilities in customer service, supply chain, merchandising and logistics are but a few processes that will be enabled by RFID. But if you limit your definition of RFID to compliance— tags only—and don't use it to improve your business processes, your enterprise will not gain tangible benefits, beyond ...
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This paper shows how two products, Microsoft® Office and Microsoft SharePoint®, contribute to the powerful architectural design of the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI). The BPI stack approach suggests that only by thinking at a capability level (for example, “What do users want to do?‖), and then adding the right aspects of capability in each place (client, server, and services), can we create desktop applications that also deliver rich server and services capabilities to ...
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fast analytics and business intelligence for everyone: best practices for deploying collaborative bi
AUTHOR: Neil Raden Co-founder of Smart (enough) Systems, LLC DATE: May 4, 2008
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Software for Business Intelligence (BI) provides the mechanism for people in organizations to examine historical trends, to measure results, to look for patterns in the data that might be missed in standardized reports and event to create alerts that fire when certain conditions are or aren’t met. ...
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3 Topics to consider when rescanning microfilm, microfiche and aperture card scanning.
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At A Glance Premium bill processing was cumbersome and prone to error. LaserNet’s solution eliminated administrative costs, shortened the accounts receivable cycle, and improved the customer experience. The Client This Midwestern not-for-profit managed health care organization provides a full range of health care services, including insurance, Primary Care and Specialty Care. The Problem The premium billing process was challenging for both this client and their employer groups. Upon receiving ...
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This white paper is an exploration of technology innovations and evolutions that impact corporate enterprise fax solutions.
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Identity fraud and financial account fraud are not new and many of the tried and true methods for committing these crimes are decidedly low-tech; dumpster-diving and stealing mail have long been the primary methods by which criminals gain access to individual’s sensitive personal information. But the methods used by criminals to gain access to the personal information that makes these crimes possible are changing with our times. Increasingly, criminals are turning to more technologically ...
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Over the last few years, hundreds of corporations have been featured in headlines for data security breaches.According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the records of over 158 million U.S. residents have been exposed by security breaches since January 2005. That's more than half of the U.S. population.
Lost or stolen backup tapes contributed to a large number of these breaches, yet protecting backup data is still often overlooked. Many companies believe that it is useless to protect these ...
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Considerations for Establishing Patient Identity in the Patient Portal
In today's world of personal automation, consumers rely heavily on Internet‐based services to conduct their daily business activities. As a result, consumers come to expect that certain service options are available online, regardless of the type of business. Healthcare organizations are being challenged more and more to provide convenient self‐service capabilities for many administrative tasks that have traditionally ...
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According to estimates from the federal government, and Recognizing the ultimate impact healthcare fraud and from issues-based groups such as the National Health abuse have on private health insurers, government-funded Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA), as much as 10 per- health plans and consumers, IBM has worked closely cent of all healthcare expenditures in the United States with healthcare investigators to develop the IBM Fraud may be lost each year to fraud, abuse and waste.1 That’s and ...
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A RIS NEWS AND HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY WHITEPAPER
MANAGING COSTS AND IT INVESTMENTS SO YOU EMERGE STRONGER WHEN TIMES IMPROVE
Like many businesses, retail and hospitality organiza- tions may be tempted to cut their information tech- nology budgets during tough times. Companies struggling with slow sales and high fixed costs may see large-scale IT investments as a logical target for belt-tightening. In reality, technology investments that enable operational efficiency, reduce labor costs and ...
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There are numerous benefits that an Application Service Provider (ASP) EMR can offer over a Local Client Server (LCS) such as lower cost, greater efficiency, lower maintenance, ability to share and manipulate data and much more.
If the benefits of an ASP outweigh the benefits of an LCS then why is there still a debate over which application is the right solution for physicians? The debate is over the concern some physicians have with the safety of their patient information and the reliability ...
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As healthcare organizations continue to grow and serve greater volumes of patients, persistent, high no-show rates have an increasingly greater impact on revenue.
Though direct mail has traditionally been effective reminding patients of their appointments, leading providers have embraced automated phone messages to supplement, and often, completely replace, this older method. Automated messaging allows quicker, more cost-effective communication, and those who employ it are experiencing ...
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In an environment of constantly strained resources, human and financial, optimizing the workflow of the lab - from test order request, to specimen receipt in the lab and result generation – is critical. Doing so will allow the focus to be on critical results that need immediate attention, as well as being able to move resources off of routine tasks that can be automated and redeployed to critical patient safety and quality of care initiatives. Automating as many steps as possible in the ...
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Activation is the culminating event of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) project endeavor. It is the time the system goes live and the most memorable event to the end-users. It is often their measurement for how successful the project team performed. The benefits of implementing EMR's have been realized through reduction in medication errors, accessibility and availability of patient data, productivity improvements through electronic documentation, and improved continuity of patient care. ...
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In spite of their importance, documents can be an expensive, wasteful and time consuming proposition. Most healthcare organizations lack a complete understanding of the total amount they spend to create, print and manage documents. The reason for this is that organizations tend to view document management in a highly fragmented way, often only within a clinic or department, rather than looking at the process across the entire enterprise. As a result, opportunity for cost containment and process ...
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A smarter healthcare system: its time has come
Remarks (as prepared) by Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
2009 Medical Innovation Summit, Cleveland Clinic October 6, 2009
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Architecture, Customization, and Integration
Table of Contents Introduction ........................................ ........................................ .................................... 3 ACT! Architecture Overview................................ ........................................ .................... 3 Database Layer................................... ........................................ .......................... 4 The Business Logic ...
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The numerous benefits of remote KVM IP access and management have made them the new must have technologies for IT managers. With KVM IP companies can reduce downtime, slash travel expenses; lower cooling costs and restrict server room access which increases security.
Unfortunately many remote access and management solutions are too costly for small and medium sized business`s (SMB's). Much of their high costs derive from the contemporary “replace everything” approach which demands throwing ...
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Webmedx Technology and Services Provide a Bridge to the EHR for Rockwood Clinic
Combination of Narrative Transcription and EHR Templates Ease Transition, Improve Physician Adoption and Support Physician Productivity.
5901 C. Peachtree Dunwoody Rd. | Suite 450 | Atlanta GA 30328 T: 678.443.7250 | F: 678.443.7241
Webmedx Technology and Services Provide a Bridge to the EHR for Rockwood Clinic
Combination of Narrative Transcription and EHR Templates Ease Transition, Improve Physician Adoption ...
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8089 S. Lincoln St., Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80122 T 303.795.7956 F 303.797.7109 www.lerchbates.com
Michelle Baratta Regional Manager Pacific Southwest Region 31899 Del Obispo, Suite 100 San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 T 949.487.7203 F 888.603.6676
What Is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)?: A.I. is the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. A.I. is defined as machines that exhibit human like intelligence such as ...
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As part of President Obama's economic stimulus package officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (or ARRA) approximately $20 Billion has been allocated to incentivize hospitals and physicians to adopt Healthcare IT technology such as Electronic Health Records and E‐Prescribing.
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AUTHENTICATION STRATEGIES UNDERSTANDING THE TRADEOFFS
Sentillion, Inc. 40 Shattuck Road Suite 200 Andover, Massachusetts 01810 phone: 978.697.9095
©2010 Sentillion, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
At first glance, the choice of authentication and identification solutions might seem to be a fairly low-level security- technology decision. What users require what access to which systems? What are your password policies?
In healthcare, however, that perspective only scratches the surface of the ...
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Despite the documented advantages of an electronic medical record (EMR) and the push for providers to adopt EMR by 2012, there remains a chronic resistance to embrace this new technology. For many providers, especially smaller practices, concerns about cost and other challenges limit their ability to see long-term benets. Some believe that paper works ne, so why make the change?
A recent survey of 2,758 physicians published by the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General reported ...
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GettinG Your Wireless netWork infrastructure riGht, the first time
GettinG Your Wireless netWork infrastructure riGht, the first time
GettinG Your Wireless netWork infrastructure riGht, the first time
Like most things in life, when deploying an enterprise mobility strategy, it pays to make your best move first. And that critical first step has to do with your wireless network.
in the course of providing hundreds of wireless implementations over the past decade, we’ve seen many healthcare ...
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The healthcare industry has undergone a wide range of regulatory changes, patient safety challenges and third-party pressures to improve identifying patients, medications and procedures. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations providing FDA acceptance criteria for electronic signatures, data tracking, as well as patient and laboratory specimen identification. To streamline, automate, and improve accuracy within the healthcare market, regulatory personnel turned to the automatic ...
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The healthcare industry has undergone a wide range of regulatory changes, patient safety challenges and third-party pressures to improve identifying patients, medications and procedures. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations providing FDA acceptance criteria for electronic signatures, data tracking, as well as patient and laboratory specimen identification. To streamline, automate, and improve accuracy within the healthcare market, regulatory personnel turned to the automatic ...
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Six New Facts About Buyers Preferences For White Papers In 2009
Buyers have clearly stated their preference for educational content that aggregates and economically presents facts and analysis to help them make better decisions during the buy cycle. The greater the informative value to the customer, the stronger the differentiation, mind share and relationship gained by the information provider is the new rule. In response, “content is the new marketing” is the mantra of wise marketers who are ...
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This is the first in an occasional series chronicling the implementation of an elec tronic health record in a small community hospital system in rural New Hampshire. Serious discussion about the implementation began in 2009, during a time of seismic change in healthcare and healthcare IT.
The story is told in a diary authored by the EHR vendor's CEO. The hospital system, LRGHealthcare based in Laconia, New Hampshire, is comprised of two community hospitals, 137-bed Lakes Region General ...
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) encourages physician practices to implement electronic health record (EHR) soft- ware. The law does not necessarily require that a physician implement an EHR, but any phy- sician who does not do so will face a one- to three-percent decrease in Medicare payments, beginning in 2016. Other issues may drive the decision to use EHR technology in your practice. ARRA will al- most certainly entice many practices to imple- ment an EHR. Participating ...
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Diminishing the importance of money in a hospital system's physician practice setting; to become singularly focused on the care side, can be detrimental not only to the business but to the very communities these health care organizations serve.
Hospital systems that don't pay adequate attention to the revenue cycle will underperform financially and strain their organizations. When this happens, leadership often attempts to stop the bleeding by pulling the plug on under-performing clinics ...
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HDS utilizes thousands of on-site technicians across the country so you can be helped wherever your practice is located. In addition, OSA™ – Off Site Assistance saves time and money as most support needs can be addressed through your broadband connection – without waiting for a tech to arrive at the site. Phone support on nights and weekends gets the answers you need, when you need them. With three generations in the radiology industry, customer satisfaction has always been our goal, and we ...
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Pilot Study: Performance, Risk, and Discomfort Effects of the RollerMouse Station
Introduction & Background This report summarizes the results of a pilot study to estimate if the RollerMouse impacts motion savings in keyboard and mouse-intensive tasks and to approximate theoretical potential time savings. In addition, study participants were asked to subjectively rate the usability of the device relative to a conventional mouse as well as the contribution to discomfort of the two input ...
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Overview IPAs represent a coalition of providers and financers of health care coming together to provide integrated health care services to managed populations. These might be employer groups, people enrolled in Medicare Advantage and other government-sponsored programs, or other health plan members. To remain successful in an increasingly competitive health care environment, IPAs must provide value to each of these key constituencies, while remaining compliant with diverse regulatory ...
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Overview IPAs represent a coalition of providers and financers of health care coming together to provide integrated health care services to managed populations. These might be employer groups, people enrolled in Medicare Advantage and other government-sponsored programs, or other health plan members. To remain successful in an increasingly competitive health care environment, IPAs must provide value to each of these key constituencies, while remaining compliant with diverse regulatory ...
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At A Glance A Midwest hospital system continues patient-centric care beyond the visit with online access for patients and service representatives to view and pay from a simplified, yet comprehensive, statement.
Bellin Health is an integrated health care delivery system providing high-quality care
The Problem Bellin produces patient statements from two operating systems: Meditech for the hospital and LSS for the clinics. These systems work independently of each other, so patients who received ...
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A Winning Combination for Clinical Documentation Partial Dictation Used in Conjunction with Structured Text Encourages Physician Adoption of EHR January 2010
A Winning Combination for Clinical Documentation: Partial Dictation Used in Conjunction with Structured Text Encourages Physician Adoption of EHR
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Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) seeking solutions to best meet the needs of ancillary departments are faced with a barrage of promises from Hospital Information System (HIS) vendors.
During the sales process, some HIS vendors may promise “we do that” – they claim their solution provides the department-specific functionality and workflow that is desired by end-users in their ancillary departments. If the HIS system is shown to fall functionally short in that department during the due diligence ...
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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 example, the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) demonstration project recently recouped ...
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Adults learn differently than they did as children. This is a reality rarely understood by the adult learners and by the organizations that train them. Because the adult learning experience is so unique, most companies do not realize how to handle these differences and cater to their trainees. In order for the organizations to successfully move into the future, leadership must understand what the best way is for adults to process and acquire new information. An understanding of the way adults ...
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A Successful collaboration between Technology and Operations is an integral element to the success of any organization, easing operational processes, resolving potential staffing issues and creating overall ways to enhance a company's ability to save and generate revenue and provide optimal service to patients. A well-trained and talented Information Technology (IT) department is essential to the daily operation and the future of healthcare organizations. However, it is not as straightforward ...
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Estimates on counterfeit trade exceed two hundred billion dollars (US). And inspections across the world cost billions, yet only a very few shipments are actually inspected. This issue has particularly impacted the vital Life Sciences Supply Chain. This article discusses some solutions that are at hand to reduce illicit trade and ensure a safe and secure supply of pharmaceuticals.
The past decade has seen an increase in the level of global trade, and along with it, the unintended consequences ...
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We are all used to the finding the right balance concept. Perhaps the time has come to bring the idea of “the right balance” to the forefront when discussing or considering the best approach to deploying HCM / HRMS solutions.
Every day, organizations around the globe respond to the pressing need to effectively manage and support their workforce by trying to implement robust HCM / HRMS solutions at the speed of business. However, the wide range of positive business outcomes expected from ...
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Unleashing the Power of Point of Care information teChnology in healthCare
Unleashing the Power of Point of Care information teChnology in healthCare
the clinical device market is experiencing a resurgence fueled by technology enhancements that are driven largely by extension of electronic medical records (emrs) to the point of care (PoC). emrs are extended through mobile point of care devices that may be mobile e.g., mobile workstations on wheels (wows), or portable e.g., tablets, hand held, ...
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In this white paper, authored by Numara® Software and Pink Elephant, leaders in service and asset management software and ITIL® consulting and training respectively, we examine the critical role of having effective processes in driving down service costs. In particular, the paper demonstrates the importance of process and automation in helping IT executives stretch their IT budget further. That means C-Level executives can now see the progress of their IT investments and place a value against ...
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Organizations of any size, especially those that have grown, tolerate at least a certain level of ambiguity, duplication and even conflict. Human nature is always a contributing factor, but often the roots of the dysfunction are in sheer expedience - things are the way they are because something had to be done and the broader or longer-term consequences were of secondary concern. Because people are able to function relatively well under these circumstances and make judgments and adjustments, ...
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The security industry has seen a lot of action in the past 15 years. Hackers have been busy discovering vulnerabilities and developing new threats to exploit them. Manufacturers have built point solutions to secure computer networks and applications from those threats. Enterprises have responded in turn, making significant investments in token-based authenticators, firewalls, intrusion prevention, identity and access management, e-mail security…the list goes on. The result has been more and ...
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Many physician practices are troubled by the huge upfront costs
many EHRs require – hardware, software, interfaces, and IT
support – without a clear return on investment (ROI).
Practices also worry about disruption during EHR implementation. They could face a forced reduction in patient
load during the transition to an EHR. For some, this could lead to
a permanent reduction in revenue. On top of that, providers fear
that EHR implementation will take too much time away from
seeing ...
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Shrinking margins. Escalating debt. Uncollected payments. These are just a few of the challenges that keep a healthcare executive up at night and struggling to keep hospital doors open. But with the healthcare industry treading water under the weight of considerable financial strain, it’s an unpleasant reality for many. Not only is it difficult to admit defeat but it is even more disconcerting to deal with the aftermath: patients struggling to access needed healthcare services and to understand ...
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This white paper moves beyond the hype of green IT and provides substantial support for implementing practical, yet cost- effective power management policies and tools to “green” your IT environment and boost your bottom line. We begin by outlining key drivers for adopting green IT practices: increasing government energy regulation, enhancing corporate image, and achieving considerable cost savings. A key incentive for adopting green IT policies stems from shifts in government energy ...
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The IT support center industry has grown up and come into its maturity in the past thirty years, starting with the introduction of the PC in 1981. Early help desks (circa 1985) were known as the helpless desk for good reason – they were staffed by poorly trained employees who had access to none of the tools that a twenty-first century service desk now enjoys. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) was first developed in reaction to the immature state of IT in the late ...
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Six Ways Leading Hospitals Use Unified Communications to Improve Patient Care, Safety, and Satisfaction
Enabling Care, Safety, and Efficiency Through Unified Communications
Mary, a patient at your hospital, wears a heart monitor. Her physician sets up a communications alert to ensure he is notified if it goes off. At 10 p.m. it does. The nurse on duty is notified immediately on an in- house wireless telephone and quickly assists Mary. But the doctor needs to be alerted, too. The technology ...
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In business, the use of information technology (IT) is ubiquitous. Businesses in nearly all sectors have realized the benefits of IT including improved customer service, decreased transaction time, increased tracking of market trends, and improved flow of products and ideas. When one is withdrawing money in a bank, for example, the banker never says “just wait right here while I transfer over your paper records.” Yet in healthcare, paper-based records have persisted despite advances in ...
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Automated Test Equipment (ATE) is a computer controlled device that is utilized to quickly test electronic components and assemblies. In the past, custom designed controllers or relay logic were used. An ATE system can be as simple as a Digital Multimeter (DMM) connected to a computer where data from the DMM is acquired, analyzed and stored. An ATE system can range from this simple example all the way to a large collection of sophisticated test equipment capable of diagnosing faults in complex ...
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The Trend Toward the Electronic Delivery of Patient Statements
Read on and find out what eDelivery entails and how it can help save time and money for your company.
Is eDelivery right for your company?
eDelivery is most attractive to healthcare organizations with one or more of the following situations:
– Focus on transparency and improving the patient experience both at and after the onsite visit
– Multiple and fragmented practice management systems
– Desire to reduce costs and ...
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At Cardinal Health, we are focused on one goal: To make healthcare more cost-effective, so our customers can focus on their patients.
By helping pharmacies, hospitals, laboratories, physician offices and ambulatory care centers improve their efficiency and collaborate across the healthcare system, we make it possible for our customers to focus on their patients. As the business behind healthcare, we improve the cost-effectiveness of the system, so that our customers can improve the quality of ...
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It is certainly true that the U.S. healthcare market is the largest vertical market, but also the most dysfunctional market, in the economy today. A large (though certainly not the only) contributor to that fact is the abysmal state of the healthcare information technology (HCIT) marketplace. At its core, healthcare is an information business, but the IT infrastructure necessary to run the healthcare market in anything close to an efficient manner has been grossly lacking. Having been ...
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The medical world is making astounding, constant progress. Tools available to caregivers are continually improving, increasing diagnosis and treatment options. This trend has significantly increase total patient medical data. Concurrently, patients are becoming increasingly mobile and seeing more caregivers than in the past. Together, these trends have resulted in numerous partial medical records scattered among physicians, systems and institutions; as opposed to a single, comprehensive medical ...
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Providers can take the following steps to implement a preservice collection program:
> Verify eligibility multiple times
> Distinguish between patients who can pay and those who need assistance
> Determine charity status
> Estimate the patient bill before service
> Determine the appropriate payment plan
> Reconcile estimate with insurance payments
> Manage the change
Preservice collection of estimated bills holds an important place in the hospital revenue cycle, especially as the ...
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A Business Revolution Providing Strategic and Competitive Advantage
The Technology Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a wireless data collection technology developed during World War II that has been used in tracking and accessing applications for about a decade. The technology transfers data wirelessly between a tiny transceiver and a tag. A tag is a combination of an electronic transponder with an antenna that can be attached to items such as a razor blade, an infusion pump in a ...
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Anesthesiologists routinely document the comprehensive medical history of surgical patients as part of their preoperative assessment. This assessment has universally become a primary source of information for hospitals ever since it was demonstrated that it significantly increased comorbid documentation. However, this assessment is typically completed in clinical terms that are nebulous to the medical coders who are tasked with generating comorbid ICD-9 diagnosis codes. The ability of ...
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There are many changes in V6R1 from V5R4 and it will take time to fully comprehend and understand the implications of them all. Based on briefings and COMMON presentations from IBM, we've outlined some important points to think about if you're considering implementing V6R1 for tape encryption.
IBM clearly understands that drive based encryption is not suitable for all users due to the complexity and costs associated with it. For more details, see our article `LTO4 with Encryption – Why it ...
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Medical CT, MRI, and other scanned images can be treated as 3D data sets. Modern computers and GPUs provide substantial resources to process these 3D datasets in real time for faster diagnosis and improved visualization techniques. The suitability of various GPU products for medical imaging is not obvious from common benchmarks, so medical benchmarks are required to understand which products are appropriate.
The technology of digital imaging for visualizing medical information is rapidly ...
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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 and complicated process for any facility.
The release-of-information (ROI) process has always been ...
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One of the biggest drains on your practice revenue is the patient no-show. Fortunately, this problem has many potential solutions. Here is an eight-step approach that can cut your no-show rate dramatically.
Step 1 – Calculate the Cost of No-Shows and Cancellations
Before you invest your time, effort and resources into reducing your no-shows, you need to know what it's worth to you. So consider this:
A typical PT practice loses 10-15% of all their scheduled appointments due to no-shows and ...
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Encryption, the process of scrambling information to make it unread- able to the average human dates back to the Romans. Formerly reserved for high level government agencies, the 1970s saw a shift in encryption practices, making encryption more readily available for new applications in e-commerce, telecommunications and finance. Now, with security breaches commonplace in the daily news, the need for encryption has become so necessary that various agencies have seen a need to step in and impose ...
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Increasing healthcare costs have forced hard choices on employer groups looking to continue to offer medical coverage to their employees in a cost-effective manner. Employer groups in turn have pushed health plans to offer products to manage premium increases.
In response to this challenge, health plans have developed new cost-management strategies. The first product strategy is an incremental change to established PPO products. The second, more innovative product is the Consumer-Directed ...
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Many physician practices have resisted electronic health record (EHR) adoption because of cost, concerns about disruption to the practice and changes to clinical workflow. Find out how to leverage the incentives offered in the recent economic stimulus package and navigate through the complexity associated with choosing the right EHR solution for managing your practice.
For several years, the physician community has heard the ongoing dialogue about the adoption of Electronic Health Records ...
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Insights into EHR and Sub-Specialty Sponsored by Disease Management MaximEyes SQL ®
Second in a Four-Part Case Study Series How Electronic Health Records Aides in Tracking and Managing Cataract Patients
Patient History A 51-year-old female who underwent cataract surgery with the implantation of a premium multifocal lens. When refractive stability has been achieved she will likely undergo enhancement with photorefractive keratectomy. This patient originally visited my office in 2003 inquiring ...
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Are you ready to increase your customer loyalty through managing promotions?
Experience a new world of interaction © 2009 NCR Corporation
Increase your consumer loyalty through managing promotions.
In today’s competitive environment, retailers must focus on building loyalty since consumers face so many shopping options. Today’s consumers no longer shop exclusively at their neighborhood retail establishments simply because they are the same stores where they have gone for many years.
Based ...
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One Partner for Patient Billing and Payment
White Paper Simplifying the Business of Healthcare
The Advantages of an Integrated, Single Source for All
In the ever-changing healthcare industry, providers must operate efficiently and maintain healthy business practices if they are to remain viable and able to offer superior patient care. However, the onset of a consumer-driven healthcare model and subsequent need for new patient-facing administrative solutions are making operational ...
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Physicians are working harder than ever before to see even a small increase in their income. From 2004 to 2005 median gross charges for primary care doctors rose 6.8%, but their median compensation only increased 3.9%.1 That means that less and less of your practice's revenue goes into your pocket. And despite seeing more patients and thereby increasing their billing, physicians' real income after inflation has actually decreased an average of 7.1% between 1995 and 2003, with primary care ...
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Industry wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) is moving closer to fruition, largely due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), part of the Obama administration’s 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This legislation will trigger unprecedented investments and incentives in health information technology, creating an opportunity to drive new levels of EHR adoption and health information exchange across an interoperable ...
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The concept of converting a practice management system evokes painful memories (and sometimes hives) for those of us who have had this experience. No one will admit to having a good conversion without significant doses of Benadryl®. A practice management conversion is the ultimate baptism in religious terminology. If conducted correctly, all the sins of the past can be removed. Unfortu- nately, these sins can arise again and much faster if the technology and process analysis are not correctly ...
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Within the last ten years, there has been a vast increase in the accumulation and communication of digital computer data in both the private and public sectors. Much of this information has a significant value, either directly or indirectly, that requires protection.
It is common to find data transmissions equating to billions of dollars transferred daily. At all company levels from small to corporate, sensitive information concerning individuals, finances, product or business developments is ...
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PayStream Advisors’ research indicates that a significant change is underway. Invoice and payment automation solutions that automate manual tasks, reduce errors, and accelerate the invoice receipt-to-pay cycle are gaining popularity. PayStream Advisors uses the term ‘healthcare ePayables’ to define these solutions. These automation options not only reduce processing costs, but also free AP staff to focus on more value adding activities such as: negotiating early payment discounts, investigating ...
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Automating Survey-Based Evaluation in Education using Class ClimateTM
Automating Survey-Based Evaluation in Education using Class ClimateTM
Today more than ever, educators must understand how your services are qualitatively perceived by participants. In these times of heightened competition, you need a quality management system to scrutinize the quality of educational services provided. All educational institutions, including colleges and universities or internal and external trainers, must ...
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A distinct Return on Value (ROV) is achieved whenever physicians can document one or more additional medical disorders in addition to the primary disease or disorder under examination—comorbidity. Generating documentation with specific comorbid procedure and diagnosis codes—at the point of care—can provide pinpoint accuracy, cost savings, and insurance claim transparency.
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The road to a successful IT Strategic Plan requires a bridge that integrates technologies to the organization's strategies, allowing for a coordination of efforts and organizational focus that closes the gap between business vision and technology use. The days of reactively responding to the request for changes and enhancements in a decentralized IT landscape will not allow for a healthcare organization's evolution
A recent HIMSS Analytics Poll reported that 5,012 hospitals indicated having ...
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Many healthcare organizations are effective at measuring the clinical components of the job. Yet few are equally proficient when it comes to assessing the non-clinical or behavioral components of job performance. Without considering both elements of performance, most healthcare organizations may not have an accurate view of how their employees are truly performing.
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First, it would supportour goal of creating a more efficient work envi- ? ronment for our patients, staff, and physicians. As an electronicpractice, we have found that leveragingtech- nology in combinationwith our staff resources helps us to deliver a higher quality of care. Second,we also wanted to increase the accuracy of aU the patient data we capture. Accuracy is especially crucial in the cardiologyfield because clinical deci- sions are ofien driven by precise, technical information. ...
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Hospital operating rooms are fast-paced, highly technical and complex environments in which a patient's life is dependent on clinicians making fast and accurate decisions. Traditionally, to generate OR bills following surgery, hospitals have used largely paper-based systems to capture the numerous charges for labor, supplies and devices that are all required in a typical procedure. Accurately charging for these items and applying the correct formulas and algorithms to produce an accurate bill, ...
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University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center Tracking Assets to Improve OR Efficiency
“Savings on redundant equipment frees up budget to purchase some of the latest technology advances that offer non or minimally invasive approaches to surgical procedures. This can have significant impact on patient care, physician satisfaction and the bottom line. – James Bennan, Administrative Director for Perioperative Services
Introduction University of California San Francisco (UCSF) ...
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Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) has long been called the “last digital frontier” in radiology. While many radiographs became digital long before mammography, adoption rates have skyrocketed in the U.S. since the release of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network - Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (ACRIN-DMIST) results in September 2005. The ACRIN-DMIST trial compared digital to film-based mammography and included multiple institutions and approximately 49,500 ...
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Five Best Practices for Effective Critical Care Management
The need for effective critical care management is more urgent today than ever before. Trends in population demographics, healthcare labor, and patient resource needs are all creating a “perfect storm” that requires a new approach to managing Intensive Care Units (ICU).
This whitepaper will examine five best practices for effective critical care management which impact patient care, clinical workflow, regulatory compliance, ...
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Five Critical Strategies for Providers to Transition from Paper to Paperless Patient Billing & Payment
The world has changed. On any given day—at any given moment, millions of people are online, checking bank accounts, paying bills electronically, conducting web-based transactions and getting statements via email or secure login systems. With every point-and-click, payables and receivables draw closer together, and the world moves further from paper dependency to paperless fluency.
It's ...
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This paper is intended to inform current and prospective MediServe clients of MediServe's responsibilities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and the areas of HIPAA that the MediLinks® application supports. The primary areas of the Act that impact MediServe's business practices encompass (1) MediServe's access to client Protected Health Information (PHI) and (2) the utilization of the MediLinks clinical information system in storing and presenting PHI ...
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Accurate patient identification is critical to achieving the benefits of electronic medical records and to ensuring patient safety. There is also an increasing need for positive staff ID to protect patient privacy and track e-prescribing. This paper analyzes identification problems and evaluates available biometric solutions.
Patient ID. Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are powerful tools for improving care, but their power also expands opportunities for error. As EMRs and Health ...
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We all agree that the health care needs to change and that our existing model will not work. There are also many views on how to improve it. The health care as it is today is result of both economical and scientific influences. We are witnessing the most amazing advances of technology and science combined with an outrageously byzantine organization of delivery and financing. Why is that?
• Majority of our efforts in medicine focuses on treatment of disease. We have sophisticated
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