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• The Risk Of Virtual Viruses In The Race To Modernize Healthcare

  5/2/2016

  A viral outbreak of epidemic proportions is disrupting medical services across the country, most recently stalling procedures and causing delays at MedStar, a community-based health system in Washington, D.C. Similarly disrupted was a hospital in Kentucky, declaring an “internal state of emergency” due to a virus, while a Southern California hospital paid $17,000 to cure a virus earlier this year.

• Charting The Course Toward Value-Based Care With A Healthcare Data Lake

  9/22/2015

  There is no doubt healthcare providers are working hard to improve clinical outcomes. With healthcare reform progressing, providers are being asked to accelerate their goals and timetables to programmatically manage current and future high risk populations as their organizations make the transition to value-based payment structures. “All hands are on deck” is the cry as IT teams work to integrate EHRs, medical imaging, labs, and pathology at the same time they are building better predictive analytic models to inform clinicians at the point-of-care. By Roberta Katz, Director, Healthcare-Life Sciences, EMC

• Hospital Reduces Costs, Secures Employee Files With Hosted Solution

  1/5/2015

  Growing personnel files were cumbersome for Upland Hills Health. As more paper documents were added to employee files, the facility’s HR department couldn’t justify continuously spending money on paper and additional filing cabinets to store it.

• Modern Healthcare Network Challenges And The Value Of Zero-Trust, Session-Based Networking Models

  11/14/2017

  With digital transformation sweeping across all industries, new technologies are streamlining and enhancing lives everywhere. While this digital era symbolizes great progress for society, industries like healthcare would be wise to tread lightly amid such change. Although newfound technology often equates to higher efficiency, it is important to remember that new security concerns may also arise. With 233 healthcare-related breaches already reported in 2017 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, network security is the most crucial component for healthcare organizations to consider as the transformation of the industry continues to ramp up.

• The Impact Of RTLS At Geisinger Health System

  3/25/2015

  Recently, Health IT Outcomes editor in chief Ken Congdon went out on the road to Geisinger Health System, an integrated health services organization widely recognized for innovative delivery of healthcare including the use of the electronic health record and the development of advanced care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator and ProvenCare, in Danville, PA. As one of the nation's largest rural health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

• Improving Access For A Pennsylvania Medical Collective

  2/17/2010

  Nearly every human being has experienced the challenges and frustrations caused by flawed or inaccessible paperbased medical records. These health records, which provide limited access to past medical data, often contain information that is disorganized and unintelligible. By Optical Image Technology