New white paper from Lumeris provides an accountable provider’s guide to consumer-driven health care and offers 5 strategies to successfully engage patients
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How Secure Text Messaging Promotes Better Physician Alignment
New white paper from DocHalo explores what features of a secure text messaging system promote better physician alignment.
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Accelerating Medical Product Development Through Agile Methods
New ebook from Pathfinder Software addresses how agile development can accelerate medical product development to shorten timelines, reduce risk, and improve quality.
The medical device and diagnostics industries are facing unprecedented challenges: regulatory and reimbursement model changes, dramatic technology changes, increasing technology interdependence, and the rising expectations of physicians and patients. Medical Devices and Diagnostics typically have long development cycles, often 3
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IDC Health Insights: Imprivata Cortext: Secure Communications Platform for Healthcare
White paper sponsored by Imprivata, presents key findings of interviews with three healthcare IT executives regarding the deployment of Imprivata Cortext, a secure communications platform.
Executive Summary
At the heart of excellent patient care is good communication between care team members. However, a highly mobile workforce and multiple communications channels voice, landlines, mobile devices, email, and paging make it challenging for clinicians to communicate
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Secure vs. HIPAA Compliant: What’s the Difference for Text Messaging?
White paper from DocHalo explores the differences between secure vs. hipaa compliant text messaging and what features make a secure texting solution truly HIPAA-compliant.
The need for physicians and other healthcare team members to be in constant communication with each other has never been higher. Secure texting applications seek to provide healthcare professionals a quick and convenient way to connect while complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
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The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare
Efficient communication and collaboration amongst physicians, nurses and other providers is critical to the coordination and delivery of patient care, especially given the increasingly mobile nature of today’s clinicians and the evolution of the accountable care organization (ACO) model.For healthcare IT leadership, the ability to satisfy the clinical need for more efficient communications technologies must be balanced with safeguarding protected health information (PHI) to meet compliance and
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7 Questions To Ask Before Choosing A Patient Portal Solution
IT’S NO SECRET that patient engagement is critical to achieve Meaningful Use, increase patient satisfaction, lower hospital operating costs and promote higher usage of better data. With a bevy of vendors offering patient portal solutions, it can be challenging for a hospital to know where to start. Choosing an efficient patient portal solution can be a daunting task and can cost you big without proper research. By asking the right questions and connecting the right stakeholders, you can ensure
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Breaks $2.3B In First Half of 2014
Digital health funding totals $2.3B in the first half of 2014 according to recent 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report by Rock Health.
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare today released their 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report, an in-depth analysis report of digital health funding in first half of 2014. The report found funding of digital health companies continued to grow overall, totaling $2.3B in the first half of
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An Insider’s Look to Clinical Engagement
As healthcare informatics continues to generate attention in the media one of the greatest challenges facing start-ups and large corporations alike is the ability to engage healthcare professionals.
An Insider’s Look to Clinical Engagement is a free white paper written by the UK based clinical team at corporate strategy consultancy AbedGraham supported by the industry insights of HIT Consultant. This concise paper highlights the increasing prevalence of healthcare professionals in
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Keys to Implementing a Sustainable Population Health Management Program
White paper from Siemens examines some of the critical success factors for a sustainable population health management program.
Population health management (PHM) has become and will continue to be a top priority for healthcare providers as the industry shifts from the current fee-for-service to new value-based purchasing models. Provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving the adoption of these models, which are designed to improve the quality of American healthcare, while large
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