Abstract: Patient portals can offer important benefits to patients and provider organizations. These technologies — particularly when integrated with an electronic health record (EHR) — have the potential to improve both quality and access to care through features that enable patients to: communicate electronically and securely with their provider; access their medical records; schedule appointments; pay bills; and refill prescriptions.This paper examines research documenting the
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Archives for May 2011
Mobile App Spotlight: AbbaDox Rad: DICOM Image Viewer for the iPad
AbbaDox Rad is a DICOM image viewing app for the iPad designed to provide radiologists and imaging centers with the ability to share diagnostic images with their referring physicians conveniently, securely and without the need to install and maintain mini-PACS workstations and VPNs on their premises.AbbaDox Rad features include:Synchronized scrolling between images using reference lines to automatically show equivalent positioning in relation to each serieView images from multiple studiesFull
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Top-Ranked Hospital Uses Wyse Cloud Client Computing Solutions in Its Private Cloud to Optimize Healthcare Services
Wyse Cloud Client Computing has completed another successful customer implementation at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, WA. With approximately 4,500 employees supporting 292,000 annual patient visits, Seattle Children's specializes in meeting the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of children from infancy through young adulthood. The hospital is consistently ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
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Career Spotlight: Interviewing Suggestions for Your Next HIT Consulting Position
Maybe you interviewed last month for a short term assignment. Maybe you haven’t interviewed in years. Either way, here are some great interviewing suggestions for your next HIT consulting position:Be on time for the call. Show the interviewer that you are serious about the position.Sheila Rogers, Founder and CEOBe succinct and ensure you are answering the interviewers specific questions.Research the background of the company that you will be interviewing
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Neil de Crescenzo Discusses New Oracle® Health Sciences Cloud
Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit, discusses how the new Oracle Health Sciences Cloud supports the increasingly networked environment for research, clinical development, and healthcare delivery in the healthcare and life sciences market. Facts: Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Applications will be powered by the next-generation Oracle® Health Sciences Cloud, a scalable and secure software-as-a-service delivery platform
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Webinar: ICD-10 PlayBook: New Tools for Successful Transformation
Date: 5/25/2011 Time:12:00:00 PM-1:30:00 PMCost: Free for HIMSS members Free for non-membersRegistration InformationDescription:Abstract: The ICD-10 implementation is one of the most complex and challenging federal mandates facing the US healthcare industry today. The HIMSS ICD-10 Playbook is a free, web-based guide to industry-best resources for providers. Maintained by leading ICD-10 experts, the Playbook addresses the gamut of ICD-10 challenges
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CareTech Solutions Unveils iDoc™ Savings Calculator
CareTech Solutions, an information technology and Web products and services provider for more than 180 U.S. hospitals, today unveiled its iDoc™ Savings Calculator, at the Michigan Health Information Management Association’s annual meeting. Located on the company’s website, the online tool will estimate annual savings for an organization after it implements the company’s document imaging and management solution. “CareTech Solutions’ iDoc Savings Calculator helps hospitals isolate costs
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Video: HealthCollaborate
HealthCollaborate™ is designed to enable clinicians globally to form/join communities of providers and to securely communicate, exchange patient data, collaborate on patient cases, share ideas, trade documents, send and receive messages containing PHI such as referrals, images and results, create discussion forums, share knowledge, ask questions from colleagues and more. HealthCollaborate™ enables providers to connect to their patients and securely send health education, messages,
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Nuesoft Podcast Series:Reworking Workflow to Maximize Revenue
t having a streamlined claims submission workflow can mean that your practice is losing out on tens of thousands of dollars each year. Learn how to spot breakdowns in your workflow, create best practices and effectively use technology to optimize your revenue cycle.Cara Buckhaulter, CPC, Nuetopia Billing Consultant, Nuesoft Technologies, Inc.Bio: Cara Buckhaulter, CPC is a medical billing and coding consultant with a multi-specialty background and 20 years experience in the medical field,
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Specialty Article: AMA Report: Standardized EMR Would "Stifle Innovation"
At the 2009 Annual Meeting, the House of Delegates referred Resolution 624-A-09, “Standardized User Interface for all Electronic Medical Records.” The resolution was introduced by the Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS) and asked that our American Medical Association (AMA): 1. Promote the development and universal adoption of a standardized user interface for all Electronic Medical Records (EMRs); and 2. Advocate for a federal mandate for interoperability of EMRs
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