Redefining Value and Success in Healthcare: Charting the path to the future
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
Transformation of the healthcare industry is finally happening, and with dramatic energy, driven by a fundamental shift in the expectations of all stakeholders - patients, governments, payers, employers and providers.<br><br>
Today, the market is rejecting the three major structural deficiencies that have resulted in the industry's systemic challenges:<br>
1) An over-emphasis on expensive advances in medical technology that yield incremental improvements in outcomes, with inadequate consideration to ...
Redefining Value in Healthcare: Innovating to expand access, improve quality and reduce costs of care
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
Despite its increased spending, the healthcare industry struggles to deliver the right care, to the right patients, at the right time. The healthcare industry is turning to digital information and resources to improve quality of care while simultaneously reducing costs.<br><br>
In this paper, learn how technology can be leveraged to increase consumer access and value, improve quality and outcomes, and build sustainable, cost-efficient healthcare systems.
The value of analytics in healthcare: From insights to outcomes
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
Healthcare organizations around the world are challenged by pressures to reduce costs, improve coordination and outcomes, provide more with less and be more patient-centric. Yet, at the same time, evidence is mounting that the industry is increasingly challenged by entrenched inefficiencies and suboptimal clinical outcomes.<br><br>
Read this paper to learn how building analytics competency can help these organizations harness "big data" to create actionable insights, set their ...
The Case for Smarter Healthcare
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
Even as medical science advances, demand for health services increasingly outstrips supply, revealing critical flaws in the systems we use to deliver care.<br><br>
In some countries healthcare costs are growing twice as fast as inflation; in the United States alone more than $850 billion is wasted each year on things like duplicate lab tests, preventable conditions, and inefficient paper-based systems; and millions of people every year are injured because of ...
Fade or flourish? Rethinking the role of life sciences companies in the healthcare ecosystem
[ Source: IBM ]
April 2012-
The life sciences industry stands at a crossroads. Its business model is broken, and the surrounding healthcare ecosystem is changing dramatically. So how should companies respond?<br><br>
They can carry on as normal and potentially fade into insignificance or completely rethink how they engage with the other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem in an effort to flourish anew.<br><br>
In today's increasingly complex and fast-changing ...
Foundations For The Future: Building a Better ACO - August 2011 Webcast
[ Source: Optum ]
September 2011-
This informative webcast provides new insight on the IT strategies and technologies that enable collaborative and interconnected processes and the capabilities that will form the basis for new models of care. <br><br>
With a real-world focus on what is possibl - and practical - attendees will learn how to begin planning. Watch this webinar to learn more about: <br><br>
• Various technologies that will help facilitate ...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.<br><br>
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing ...
Business Intelligence for Healthcare: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
[ Source: SAP ]
February 2011-
Read this white paper by Don Tapscott and explore the criteria best-in-class hospitals use for selecting business intelligence solutions. Companies that learn to effectively harness the information generated by their IT systems will enjoy substantial productivity improvements.
Smart Work for Healthcare demo
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
Watch this demo and learn how combining Business Process Management, Collaboration and SOA enables an ER to: significantly improve the quality of patient care; handle emergencies better; access proper medical expertise (regardless of location); and increase its efficiency and effectiveness.
Ukraine Leads in Central and Eastern Europe in Number of Software Developers
[ Source: IT Sourcing Europe Limited ]
October 2010-
IT Sourcing Europe highlights the findings of the 2010 Global Services ITO/BPO industry research in terms of the world’s leading IT outsourcing locations. According to the GS Top 20 Locations List (2010), the world’s leading countries by the number of software developers employed are: India (514,157 developers), Philippines (97,740 developers), USA (42,808 developers) and China (34,672 developers). Ukraine ranks 11 globally and 1 in Central and Eastern Europe by the number of employed developers (5,816).