The Client Ochsner Health System is southeast Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system with eight hospitals and over 38 health centers in Louisiana. Ochsner has been named the Consumer Choice for Healthcare in New Orleans for 16 consecutive years and is the only Louisiana hospital recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a “Best Hospital” across seven specialty categories.
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Guest Case Study: Solutions Healthcare Builds Agile, Highly Available Infrastructure with Xsigo
The following guest case study is written by By Jeff Bills, VP of Information Technology at Solutions Healthcare Management Background
Solutions Healthcare provides IT operations for medical offices and clinics. Our firm now serves 600 physicians across eight states with services including billing, collections, medical records management, digital imaging, VDI, and VOIP. As a service business, we compete by delivering services that continuously exceed our customers’ expectations while
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Video Case Study: How Telehealth Can Eliminate Barriers to Care
The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers to care. In this project, specially trained pharmacists provided medication therapy management services to nearly 100 older Cambodian-Americans. Results Pharmacists identified 604 potentially harmful medication-related problems (MRPs).
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Thought Leadership: Mobile Applications In Healthcare
Mobile Applications in Healthcare: Reaching Out to Patients to Improve Care by Colin Konschak, MBA, FHIMSS and Ram Davaloor, MS, MBA One in five mobile phone owners today owns a smartphone, a trend that is on the rise as consumers increasingly use these devices as handheld computers. Not surprisingly the number of consumer smartphone applications (apps) that were downloaded went from 300 million in 2009 to five billion in 2010. With mobile devices outnumbering personal computers, we
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Case Study: Virtua Implements CPOE
THE CHALLENGE
Virtua was implementing the Siemens Soarian Clinical Information System (CIS) at its Voorhees hospital, a 295-bed regional medical center in the heart of Camden County in Southern New Jersey. Keeping in line with its focus on continued process improvements to enhance the patient care experience and digitize the healthcare system for the future, Virtua wanted to ensure that the technology was live at the its existing hospital before transitioning to a replacement facility in May
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Video Case Study: Revenue Cycle Management at Fletcher Allen Health Care
Chuck Podesta, CIO of Fletcher Allen Health Care (FAHC) in Vermont discusses his academic medical center's use of the Centricity Business revenue cycle management solution from GE Healthcare. Podesta addresses ICD-10 readiness, Accountable Care Organizations, connectivity with Epic clinicals, and FAHC's new population health management patient portal tool, MyHealth.
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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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