TechnologyAdvice decided to survey the city of Nashville, one of the fastest growing healthcare markets in the country and uncover how EHR adoption was doing in a city renowned for healthcare innovation and investment. Nashville is home to 15 publicly traded healthcare companies and more than 300 private and public healthcare organizations, making the city one of the nation’s leaders in healthcare innovation, investment, and job growth. The Nashville Healthcare Council estimates that in 2008,
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Look Beyond Coding: Optimizing Your HIM Department for Value
47 percent of hospital leaders plan to outsource their coding efforts by October 1, 2015, according to a recent survey of 650 hospital leaders by Black Book Rankings. Given the 21 percent national coder shortage by industry estimates, hospital CFOs must look beyond coding to optimize their HIM department operations to improve their overall efficiency.
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ACO Trends to Watch in 2014 and Beyond Infographic
Infographic created by CDW Healthcare illustrates some of the key ACO trends to watch in 2014 and beyond.
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Infographic: Top Digital Health Consumer Activities of U.S. Households
Consumers are gaining increasingly active roles in their healthcare services. Spending is shifting from employers to employees, and personal technologies give consumers the ability to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Nearly 60% of U.S. broadband households own some kind of personal health and wellness device, such as a digital weight scale or glucometer, and new designs and form factors, such as smart watches, have generated considerable consumer interest. This infographic created
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How Mobile Medical Apps Are Poised to Revolutionize Healthcare
Infographic created by global science, technology and product development services company Sagentia illustrates how mobile medical apps are poised to revolutionize healthcare.
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Infographic: What’s in the Bag of the Quantified Clinician?
This infographic created by Quantified Care illustrates how mobile health devices are transforming the way clinicians provide care across the continuum of medicine.
About Quantified Care
Quantified Care is committed to helping clinicians and their patients learn about and adopt evidence-based mobile medical apps and devices that have the potential to improve quality of care while lowering costs.
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Infographic: Rx for Doctor Disconnect
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 90% of physicians are using smartphones, but only a tenth of our hospitals are offering a secure texting solution at their facilities. So how can physicians become engaged when they are struggling to communicate with the rest of their team?
The infographic visualization created by Voalte highlights the doctor disconnect trend by exploring the key issues and risks contributing to poor physician engagement.
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The Convergence of Big Data and EHR Infographic
“In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together,” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Data science holds great promise for patient health, but patient data is only actionable in so far as it is digital. This is where Electronic Health Records (EHRs) come in. By 2019, the majority of physicians will have adopted a basic EHR system, and with good reason, too. EHRs may reduce outpatient care costs by 3 percent.
The
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Infographic: Embracing Cloud in Healthcare
HIMSS Analytics has released the results of their inaugural Cloud Survey on embracing the cloud in healthcare. According to the survey 150 healthcare organizations, 80 percent of respondents are currently using cloud services and almost all have plans to expand their use of cloud services.
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Intersecting Trends in HIT: Population Health Management & Business Intelligence
72.5% of healthcare organizations are integrating clinical and claims data to better manage population health. In order to successfully take advantage of that data to improve care coordination, healthcare providers must learn to utilize population health management and business intelligence tools. The infographic shown below created by CDW Healthcare illustrates how population health management and business intelligence tools are playing a bigger role in the changing HIT landscape.
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