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.
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Case Study: Ahead of the Game with Computer-Assisted Coding
In this video, John Kemper, RHIA from St. Elizabeth Healthcare discusses their partnership with 3M for computer assisted coding tools and the numerous benefits including: Decreased discharge not final billed30% coding productivity increaseRevenue cycle and cash flow improvementICD-10 preparation
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KLAS Report: Providers Prefer Interoperability Interface Solutions
KLAS Report: Providers Prefer Interoperability Interface Solutions based on recent KLAS report
The ever-expanding number of technology applications, combined with meaningful use and other initiatives, results in the increasing demand for application interoperability in healthcare organizations. This in turn places greater pressure and incentive on those organizations to find better and easier ways to facilitate interfacing. Providers want all the horsepower of a robust, scalable, and flexible
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Specialty Topic: The True Cost of EHR Downtime
As hospitals and offices transition from paper records to electronic records, one important, often overlooked consideration that organizations need to ensure is adequate system uptime. Very few organizations realize the true cost of a system outage – for example just 15 minutes of downtime for a 5 provider practice can cost over $500. In an effort to raise awareness to this problem, Stratus Technologies has created an infographic outlining the costs of EHR downtime.
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CMS Proposes MU Attestation for Clinical Quality Measures in 2012
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals may continue to report clinical quality measures for meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do in 2011, according to two proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Also, just like 2011, the measures must be calculated using meaningful use-certified electronic health records.The provision, with varying language, is in separate proposed rules setting Medicare's hospital outpatient
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Video: Cloud Imposters: Understanding the Risks of Hosted ASPs
Although many health information technology companies claim that their software products run “in the cloud,” there are some important distinctions between true cloud based systems and those that are really just client server technology in disguise. This video podcast reviews the important distinctions between the cloud networking model and hosted solutions, where a vendor “hosts” the application with either your hardware or theirs, and gives users access via an Internet connection.Massoud
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