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Hospitals To Reap Millions in CMS Reimbursement Revenue

by Dr. Donald Voltz 12/02/2015 Leave a Comment

Dr. Donald Voltz_Electronic Medical Records

Like most hospitals, Good Samaritan in St. Vincennes, Indiana was struggling with the typical EHR interoperability plaguing most healthcare facilities in which multiple EHR system cannot share data.  However the 232-bed community health-care facility not only solved this common interoperability, but used it to unlock a treasure trove of CMS funds while also improving patient care. Middleware, used for years to integrate data in financial and retail organizations with its simple open
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5 Hospital Considerations for Implementing an E-Prescribing Solution

by Our Thought Leaders 11/23/2015 Leave a Comment

E-prescribing market

Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.  On the face of it, the use of computers to order prescriptions seems like a no-brainer. Who, after all, is capable of reading a physician’s handwriting? But
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Hospital Cyber-Attacks Could Be Mitigated through Higher Education

by Our Thought Leaders 11/23/2015 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data _Cybercrime in Healthcare_Infographic: History of Security Data Breaches in Healthcare

Editor's Note: J.A. Eve Krahe, Ph.D. is the dean of graduate programs for University of Phoenix School of Health Services Administration. Prior to joining University of Phoenix, she served as the director of health care innovation programs at Arizona State University. In his comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2015, Brian Dishman of Intel Corporation described the “constellation” of health data that surrounds each of us. From diagnostic,
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Reimagining Aging: Designing Digital Health Products for Aging Boomers

by Stuart Karten, Principal of Karten Design 11/19/2015 Leave a Comment

Karten Design: Design Must Play a Larger Role in Healthcare

Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.  The number of adults aged 65 and older will double to nearly 90 million people by 2050. The baby boom generation — the largest in history — aren’t babies anymore. They are taking their unique perspective into their senior years, and that perspective will help shape healthcare for the next several decades.
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Robotic Surgery Is the Future of Medicine

by Our Thought Leaders 11/16/2015 Leave a Comment

Robotic Surgery

  Editor's Note:  Richard van Hooijdonk is a futurist and international keynote speaker on future technologies and disruption and how these technologies change our everyday lives. Van Hooijdonk and his international team research ‘mega trends’ on digital health, robotic surgery,drones, the internet-of-things, 3D/4D printing, Big Data and other how new technologies affects many industries.  The human body is a rather untidy place where your organs, bones, flesh, muscles, arteries
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Can Mobile Health Apps Transform Mental Health Care?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 11/12/2015 Leave a Comment

Report: mHealth Market Will Account for Nearly $18B in 2016 Alone

Any conversation focused on what’s great about America usually includes a mention of optimism, hopefulness or some variation on the theme. Americans generally still believe in a brighter future, and especially the ways in which technology can enable that future. But that sense of optimism contains a kernel of potential disappointment when we ask technology to do too much. Consider the case of mental health care, a profession that faces massive budget shortfalls. According to Robert
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4 C’s of the Quantified Doctor-Patient Relationship

by Margalit Gur-Arie 11/09/2015 Leave a Comment

Doctor-Patient Relationship

So far the doctor-patient relationship escaped rigorous quantification, because “relationship” is largely a nostalgic quantity, and because “communications” was deemed to be a reasonable substitute. There are various tools and instruments for subjective measurement of communications with one’s doctor, with the most common being the ubiquitous patient experience survey. However, if we accept a broader definition of the doctor-patient relationship, such as the 6C’s proposed by Dr. Emanuel, a more
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5 Ways Supply Chain is Improving Patient Care Today

by Our Thought Leaders 11/02/2015 Leave a Comment

5 Ways Supply Chain Can Reduce Rising Healthcare Costs

Editor's Note: Scott Kelley is the VP of North American Sales & Marketing at healthcare supply chain provider GHX and is responsible for all commercial activities across the healthcare provider and supplier markets in North America. Kelly has spent more than 20 years focused on the issues facing the healthcare issues, addressing the issues of cost and improved operational efficiency while working at companies such as GE Healthcare and Fuji Fuji Medical Systems. Kelley The modern,
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Health IT Interoperability: The Battle with Frankenstein Continues…

by Dr. Donald Voltz 10/30/2015 Leave a Comment

Health IT Interoperability_The Battle with Frankenstein Continues…

Victor Frankenstein created his monster with a mix of parts, some chemistry and a touch of alchemy.  Depending on how one looks at the fictional creation, although hideous, it was a successful experiment to create an emotional and sensitive creature. As we approach another Halloween night, health IT has its share of cobbled together solutions that for the most part are working, albeit with a great deal of frustration from both patients and physicians and for the most part on a local level. We
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5 Benefits of Geographic Information Systems in Healthcare

by Our Thought Leaders 10/29/2015 Leave a Comment

Geographic Information Systems in Healthcare

  Editor's Note: Brittni Brown is a current Masters candidate at the University of Idaho. There is no doubt that technology has made a significant impact in the medical world. Advancements range from those that improve the comfort of many patients to those that extend their lives. Perhaps one of the most interesting technologies that has emerged onto the scene is one meant to more efficiently address geographical links to illnesses: geographic information systems, or
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