The ONC released this video last month discusses the positive impact of technology in health care.
Innovative health care can save lives and every physician and health care provider has a stake in its success. Through the use of electronic health records (EHRs), the coordination of health care for an individual patient between various practitioner offices is more efficient and accurate, resulting in better overall patient care. With an EHR, a patient's information is always current and
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Video: The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Healthcare Delivery Pt 2
The second part interview where Host, Gina Clark, Chief Marketing Officer for AmerisourceBergen interviews Loreen Brown, VP of Access and Reimbursement for Xcenda to share her insights on the impact of Accountable Care Organizations on healthcare delivery.
AmerisourceBergen delivers pharmaceuticals on a just-in-time basis to tens of thousands of healthcare providers each day.
Healthcare organizations and pharmaceutical manufacturers turn to us for the strategic business resources and
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Thought Leadership: Managing Healthcare IS Supply and Demand
By Daniel Herman, Founder and Managing Principal, Aspen Advisors, Guy Scalzi, Principal, Aspen Advisors, and Roger Kropf, Professor in the Health Policy and Management Program, New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Abstract:
IT governance has been topic of interest for many years, and even though the concept has been embraced within the healthcare industry, the reality is that it’s still not operationally working well within most healthcare organizations.
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Video: The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Healthcare Delivery Pt 1
Accountable care organizations might create a paradigm shift for healthcare--but questions remain over implementation costs, provider enthusiasm, and performance measurement. Loreen Brown, Vice President of Access and Reimbursement for Xcenda, joins "In The Know" to discuss how providers are responding to the cost and practicality of ACO participation, as well as how ACOs might change the way manufacturers interact with prescribers.
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GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Advance – Mobile
GE Healthcare today announced the release of Centricity* Advance-Mobile, a native Applie iPad application that is specifically designed for primary care physicians in small practices. Clinicians who will use the complete web based EMR and practice management system won't be tied to their desktop, but can walk freely utilizing their iPad with the ability to interact with their patients and patient record. The mobile application will allow immediate response to patient requests, such as
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Podcast: Reducing Liability and Improving Employee Satisfaction through Strong HR Policies
The great team at Nuesoft is back again with another great podcast around HR in healthcare. Something that can be overlooked by most and quite boring to discuss. Medical practices that do not have well defined standardized HR practices and policies can severely impact their operational, financial, and employee and patient satisfaction. This podcast lead by Denise Zoe Gillen Algrie, MBA, RN, COHN-S/CM, FAAOHN, practice leader for Risk Navigation Group will provide some insights and best practices
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Video Webinar: Healthcare Security & Privacy
Overview: Improving the quality and reducing the cost of patient care depends on moving to electronic patient records. A safe and accelerated move to electronic patient records requires a proactive, preventative approach to security and privacy. Sensitive information in electronic form presents new vulnerabilities (compared to paper-based equivalents) as do the growing trends in clinician mobility and wireless networking, health information exchange, new care coordination models, cloud
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Video Webinar: Healthcare Cloud Computing Webinar
This Intel cloud computing webinar describes how cloud can address healthcare industry needs related to health information exchange. Concerns around security and compliance and techniques for mitigating these concerns are also discussed. You'll learn about:• Key business drivers of healthcare clouds• Top concerns with healthcare cloud computing• Strategy and solutions to maximize value from cloud deploymentsListen to Brian DeVore, Director, Industry Affairs, Intel, and Chris Gough, Senior Cloud
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White Paper: CSC Update on Stage 2: Current Direction and Timing of Meaningful Use Requirements
Author:Erica Drazen Summary:On June 16, 2011, the HIT Policy Committee made formal recommendations to CMS on requirements for Stage 2 of meaningful use. Under the recommendations for Stage 2, all Stage 1 menu items would be mandatory, the threshold and/or scope of many Stage 1 measures would be increased, and providers would be responsible for meeting a number of new requirements (particularly around care coordination and patient engagement).The final rule on Stage 2 is not anticipated from
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Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud
Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud
Cloud Computing has Been Playing A Larger Role in Healthcare, but what is Its Security Profile? by John Degaspari
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As more provider organizations look to the cloud computing model, they face a host of security-related questions. What are the appropriate applications for the cloud, what is the best cloud model, and what do they need to know to choose the best vendor? Hospital CIOs and security experts weigh in.
From a
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