CapSite™ announces the release of the 2011 U.S. Patient Access Study. The study represents the latest in a series of CapSite strategic industry reports focused on the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) market.The statistically significant study represents unique Voice of Customer (VOC) insight from more than 500 U.S. hospitals on the market opportunity, market share, vendor mind share and adoption of various Patient Access solutions
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Career Spotlight: What Do CEOs Look for in Interviews?
Seventy CEOs walk into a room …Top executives are often the objects of wry humor and close scrutiny over their compensation and strategic fumbles as well as the financial performance of theircompanies. In his new book, "The Corner Office", Adam Bryant takes a different, more personal tack: He focuses on the qualities that have put them into positions of leadership and their perspective on how employees can thrive and advance their own careers at any level.Bryant uses more than 70 interviews
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Video: Introduction to the New HIMSS ICD-10 Playbook
Juliet A. Santos, MSN, CCRN, FNP-BC, Senior Director of HIMSS Business-Centered Systems and the HIMSS Medical Banking Project, introduces the HIMSS ICD-10 Playbook, which provides critical information to assist hospitals, ambulatory centers, practitioners, and their staff in transitioning to ICD-10. The PlayBook was developed by HIMSS staff with support from the Medical Banking and Financial Systems Committee, ICD-10 Task Force, ICD-10 PlayBook Work Group, and 25 organizations including
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ICD-10 Survey Shows Urgent Need for Education
J.A. Thomas and Associates (JATA) has announced results from an ICD-10 survey sent to its U.S. hospital client base. The ICD-10 Final Rule sets out a specific date, Oct. 1, 2013, by which all entities impacted by HIPAA must convert to and begin using new ICD-10 code sets. ICD-10 conversion means major changes in coding rules, terminology and structure and an eight-fold increase in the number of codes. Providers face both the prospect of productivity losses, and possibly,
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What Connected Community of Health Means to Members of North Shore-LIJ Health
North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System has a vision for a connected community. Various stakeholders within the organization explain what that vision means to them.
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White Paper: Measuring the Impact of Patient Portals: What the Literature Tells Us
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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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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