Ensuring patient safety in acute and critical care settings has become more challenging than ever before. Nurses, clinicians, and caregivers are facing more demands – often with fewer resources. They must juggle providing high-quality care while managing a growing number of patients, all under both physical and mental strain.
In intensive care units (ICUs), where nurses are responsible for managing multiple IV lines for each patient, labeling each line, and tracing each line – all
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The Critical Role of Medical Display Technology in Modern Healthcare
The latest medical display technology plays a critical role in enhancing and advancing the way physicians diagnose, monitor, and treat patients, assisting both physicians and patients in their interactions within the healthcare environment, while enhancing partner hospital efficiency, streamlining staff operations, reducing equipment costs, and facilitating more remote work opportunities. As the technology continues to evolve and innovate, the future of healthcare is increasingly reliant on the
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Preparing for the Healthcare Security Paradigm Shift
The evolving cyber threat landscape has driven the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to propose significant updates to the HIPAA Security Rule, a first in 12 years, with more stringent guidelines for protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI). These amendments stress the need for network segmentation, real-time surveillance, and effective compliance with legislation to provide comprehensive coverage of defense gaps in information technology
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Simplifying HIPAA Compliance: How Microsegmentation Can Help
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, the stakes have never been higher especially for organizations in the healthcare industry. Data breaches and ransomware attacks are not just increasing in frequency—they’re becoming more sophisticated, leaving even the most prepared organizations vulnerable. The reality is clear: protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) demands comprehensive, granular control.
This urgency has been underscored by the Department of Health and Human Services'
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Beyond Paper: Modernizing Print Management in Healthcare
Technology continues revolutionizing healthcare while enhancing patient care and operational efficiency. Despite continual innovation, paper-based processes and physical documentation dominate many aspects of the industry.
Reliance on traditional workflows presents many challenges. For example, thousands of printers may be spread across various buildings and campuses within large healthcare systems. While access to printed materials may be acceptable in static environments, healthcare
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Why Healthcare Publishers Need An Exclusive Ad Management Platform
In today’s digital age, one of the biggest challenges for healthcare brands is reaching and then effectively engaging healthcare professionals (HCPs) at critical moments of care. Arguably the most important among them is when an HCP researches to write a prescription. Thanks to HCPs placing greater amount of trust in messaging within endemic environments, programmatic marketing with the help of endemic platforms finds an opportunity to play a significant role in helping HCPs deliver appropriate
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Reforming Medicaid’s Approach to Remote Patient Monitoring Programs
The promise of remote patient monitoring (RPM) to revolutionize healthcare delivery remains just out of reach for millions of Americans, namely the people who stand to gain the most from it — Medicaid recipients facing significant health disparities. Despite its proven track record in improving patient outcomes, reducing hospitalizations, and enhancing care accessibility for underserved populations, RPM's widespread adoption is being stifled
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Beyond the EHR: Achieving a 360-Degree View of the Patient
It took so many years and so much effort to digitize health records and build the modern EHR that it can be tempting to think that the hard work of collecting and sharing necessary information about patients is done.
The bad news is that the work isn’t over – not even close. The good news is that, thanks to advancements in technology, the task of assembling a complete picture of patients will not take nearly as long as the digitization of health records did. The even better news is that when
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Hidden Healthcare Crisis: Healthcare Dollars Buy Patient Harm
Everyone in America has felt the effects of uncoordinated healthcare, from the hassle of medical records lost between providers to devastating stories of medical errors that caused patient harm or a loss of life, uncoordinated care in medicine leaves no one behind. Uncoordinated care in the US directly contributes to out-of-control healthcare costs by adding roughly $340 billion annually in wasted resources – surpassing heart
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Protecting Margins in Home-Based Care with Smarter Revenue Cycle Management
Healthcare providers are heading into another year where financial uncertainty remains a top concern. While many for-profit and nonprofit organizations reported improved margins in 2024, industry analysts warn that rising expenses and process inefficiencies could put those gains at risk. Home-based care agencies, in particular, continue to face workforce shortages, changing reimbursement structures and administrative challenges – making revenue cycle management (RCM) a critical tool for
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