Inside the BriefcaseThe impact of EMRs often leaves many clinicians behind – struggling with lost or forgotten passwords needed to access patient information. A brand new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute researched the economic, productivity and security impact that single sign-on has on healthcare organizations and their means to accessing and securing PHI.
QlikView, a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that its customer Centerstone Research Institute (CRI), a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare delivery through the integration of research and information technology, is expanding its QlikView deployment to make significant progress toward finding a cure for mental illness and addiction disorders. The expansion is made possible in part through QlikTech’s “Change Their World” Grant Program and enables CRI to become the largest repository of mental health information in the world. As a result, community mental health centers (CMHCs) across the country will have greater insight and operational effectiveness to dramatically improve care for mental illness or addiction disorders for the patients they serve.
DST Health Solutions, LLC, today announced its patent-pending 3i event integration platform, which provides transparent access to strategic operational data by integrating real-time events from across a health plan. An industry-first, 3i offers DST Health Solutions customers the ability to view the operational status of their claims, and flags issues requiring immediate attention. DST Health Solutions has made 3i available via download at the Apple® App Store(SM).
Electronic health record systems are not designed to generate data for clinical research, and providers engaged in clinical trials may be using a number of different, incompatible EHRs. Yet a high-powered consortium of medical research centers, pharmaceutical companies, medical advocacy groups and health IT organizations is trying to find ways to overcome these and other obstacles so that electronic patient data can be mined for research purposes.
With a surge in remote monitoring devices, mHealth, developers are clamoring to build M2M applications that can transmit patient data in real time. Healthcare is quickly becoming a key area of this already-hot market. Download this whitepaper today to learn more about developing apps for healthcare and beyond.
A major hurdle for many healthcare communicators is convincing leadership that social media isn’t something to be afraid of. Often executives can warm to the idea of having an online presence in which news, information and messages can be spread, but bristle at the thought of managing a major hospital crisis via social media.
Healthcare information technology tops the list of top 10 ‘hot careers’ for college graduates in 2011, according to a new study from the University of San Diego Extension.
One of the major goals of health reform and accountable care is to reduce hospital readmissions–and mobile apps have the potential to make this happen.
While pagers were once the lone option for mobile communications in hospitals, the rise of smartphone usage is changing the way clinicians, administrators, and others communicate. In fact, there are a variety of devices that now need to be incorporated into a hospital’s communications framework to keep efficiency and safety in the forefront.
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TGen needed a storage solution that required less management resources and allowed TGen to repurpose its previous system as a backup archive.
Harvard Medical School’s storage requirements grew exponentially and they needed a lower cost, reliable, scalable central storage repository.
One of the major purposes of the federal program for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) is to produce improved clinical outcomes for patients.
Electronic medical records (EMRs) and other IT systems will go a long way toward alleviating an expected shortage of qualified healthcare professionals and staff as health insurance reform takes hold, according to a new poll from the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
After years of debate, healthcare reform is evolving from policy to reality—and already beginning to influence the behaviors of patients and healthcare providers around the country. In the effort to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, one would expect the role of enabling technologies to be front and center. All too often, however, when it comes to healthcare, technology gets a bit part
St. Jude Medical,a global medical device company, today announced connectivity with an additional electronic health record (EHR) solution and a cardiac rhythm management (CRM) data management system.
A move to electronic heath records has spurred Rasmussen College and other educational institutions to develop programs that train students for careers working with those systems.
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in business process management (BPM) solutions, today unveiled new capabilities for its care management solution, which enables healthcare insurers, hospitals and pharmacy benefit managers to reduce utilization costs and deliver higher quality care.
Clinicians want electronic health records (EHRs) of the future to be more user friendly than those of today when trying to enter orders and grasp subtle changes in a patient’s condition, according to experts testifying on a care provider perspective panel at the Health IT Policy Committee’s Adoption/Certification Workgroup hearing on EHR usability.
Hartford Hospital, an 867-bed regional teaching hospital and referral center in Connecticut, has increased its early discharge rate, a metric hospitals use to manage bed utilization, nearly three-fold by offering its clinicians access to a business intelligence (BI) dashboard from Carefx, a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions.
MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), one of the nation’s top health care plans, today announced an expansion of their partnership to achieve an industry-leading capability to improve delivery of care to its Medicare Advantage members.
In medicine, there’s the patient and there’s the chart. And the chart is paper. That’s the stereotype. Actually, about 20 to 30 percent of all primary care physicians in the nation now use basic electronic health records, according to David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor who was the national coordinator for health information technology in the Obama Administration until a week ago.
Autonomy Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced a new OEM agreement with Kainos, a leading IT consulting company, to integrate Autonomy Records Management (ARM) and Autonomy Business Process Management into Evolve®, Kainos’s next-generation, Electronic Document Management solution for the healthcare sector.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released a draft request for proposals to develop an electronic health record (EHR) system based on open source technology.
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today launched its ImagineNation Ideas Challenge, asking Canadians how they would improve health and health care through innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT).
Tweet GE Healthcare has introduced a new clinical research management (CRM) solution, Centricity Research so as to support the improvement of the efficacy and efficiency of clinical studies by offering better management of treatment plans, processes, and protocols while supporting research billing compliance. GE Healthcare claims that Centricity Research facilitates various institutions in conducting clinical […]
ROi, the supply chain division of Mercy Health System, has completed end-to-end, from purchase order to point of consumption, integration of GS1 Standards* with its supply chain information systems to enable the achievement of “perfect order.”
Avaya, Inc., a global leader in business collaboration systems, software and services, today announced the results of a Healthcare Technology Outlook survey it recently conducted at the 2011 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition in February. Avaya offers an array of healthcare communications solutions incorporating unified communications and contact center technologies, serving more than 5,000 healthcare providers globally.
Tweet Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced that Seattle Children’s Hospital selected Tableau Software to help the hospital monitor and analyze data to make the right operational decisions which ultimately improves patient care. Children’s is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 children’s hospitals in the country by […]
A survey of studies from recent years shows that health information technology has benefited healthcare providers, even small practices, refuting other recent findings that suggest electronic health records and other health IT do not produce positive effects for patient care.
