Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) In Healthcare: Wi-Not Wi-Fi?
[ Source: Awarepoint Corporation ]
August 2009-
CIOs must ask some very important questions to appraise the cost and value of Wi-Fi-based RTLS: Are you really using existing infrastructure? What is the cost (in time and expertise) for on-going maintenance of Wi-Fi RTLS? How will Wi-Fi RTLStraffic affect your network? The “just add water” story Wi-Fi marketers publicize loses steam in real-world applications. Once you’ve optimized your Wi-Fi infrastructure for RTLS, you will need extensive location planning of highly trained individuals ...
EMC Perspective: Health Maintenance For Storage Environments
[ Source: EMC ]
January 2009-
Whether the system is a customer-facing online ordering application or a back-office communications platform, the business runs on information. The costs of data loss or system downtime are high. That is why managing business risk begins with managing data access, data availability, and application response times.
Risk Mitigation Strategies for Healthcare
[ Source: HP/AMD/VMware ]
June 2010-
If a server goes down in a hospital, it is a matter of life and death. Learn how healthcare IT managers are keeping their data centers up and running 24/7 with an infrastructure that is robust enough to support new healthcare IT initiatives, including Electronic Medical Records systems.
Better Patient Flow Means a Better Patient Experience
[ Source: HP/Central Logic ]
December 2012-
Making the best use of existing hospital resources is critical in light of economic uncertainties coupled with the anticipated growth in demand from an aging population and the newly insured under healthcare reform.
Today, advances in digital technology enable a new approach: patient-centered placement. This allows resources to be organized around patient needs and for healthcare teams to share real-time visibility into the patient?s needs and status through technology.
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Medicare or Medicaid: Getting on the right path to Federal EHR incentives
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
June 2012-
In 2011, the US government began paying out more than $36 billion in incentives to qualifying healthcare providers who implement or upgrade electronic health record (EHR) systems. There's still time to register for the program, but before you do, you must decide whether to participate as a Medicare or Medicaid provider.
Each track has different incentive opportunities, eligibility criteria, qualifying requirements and program deadlines. If you are uncertain which is the right choice for your ...
Making the most of Technology Transitions
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
November 2011-
Medical practices have been contemplating the prospect of moving from paper-based records to electronic health record (EHR) systems for decades. But relatively few have begun taking steps to make the transition - until now.
This white paper examines the factors that have kept many medical practices from moving forward with EHR over the years and the factors that are prompting action today; explains some of the technological requirements of making the transition to ...
Four EHR Change Management Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
June 2012-
Careful planning and effective change management can help keep missteps – and the stress and costs that come with them – to a minimum when implementing electronic health records (EHR).
This report presents strategies for avoiding common problems as you select technology, choose your implementation team, assign responsibilities and lay out the logistics.
Sponsored by HP and Intel®
HP's prescription for next-generation data center networks
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
November 2011-
HP's extensive, modular data center product portfolio drives simplicity through streamlined network designs and centralized management; enhancing agility with high performance, security, and accelerated provisioning; and saving money with energy efficiency and low total cost of ownership.
In this paper, we'll lay out the challenges healthcare organizations are facing and how HP is the right partner to help solve them.
A smarter approach to healthcare transformation: Becoming more agile, nimble and responsive to industry change
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2011-
It is clear that the healthcare industry is being driven toward major changes and transformation. Although it is difficult to plan ahead for transformation, it is even more of a challenge to be able to respond quickly and cost effectively to change. Often, organizations do not have visibility into the full effects of change-such as costs, needed resources and time.
Learn how your company can become more agile, nimble and responsive to change ...
More Big Changes Ahead in Healthcare: Is Your House in Order?
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Those health systems that are well on their way to having their house in order have implemented a scalable and flexible IT architecture that is capable of adapting to future interoperability requirements. They know that, in order to be trusted information-sharing partners in the future, they need to start organizing and managing the quality of their internal information now-before information sharing, analytics and new payment models become widespread.