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 ...
Healthcare: Riding a Storm of Change
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2012-
The healthcare sector is in the midst of a revolution on that will change almost every aspect of the industry, from the back-office processes associated with managing the relationship between service buyers and service deliverers, to the way in which patient data is stored, analyzed and shared, and in the way that patient care is delivered on the front line.<br><br>
This paper sets out to describe the way in ...
Four EHR Change Management Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
[ Source: HP/Intel ]
November 2011-
The question is no longer if your healthcare practice will make the transition to electronic health records (EHR), but when. Careful planning and effective change management can help keep missteps - and the stress and costs that come with them - to a minimum.<br><br>
This white paper presents strategies for avoiding common problems as you select technology, choose your implementation team, assign responsibilities and lay out the logistics. Carefully ...
Mobile Clinical Assistants: Your Questions Answered
[ Source: Motion Computing and Intel Corporation ]
August 2011-
Given the potential for improved quality of care, cost savings, and patient safety benefits, optimizing mobility for healthcare applications is too important to ignore. <br><br>
In this paper, VDC Research examines the key questions surrounding the adoption of the Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) in healthcare environments.
Windows 7: A Prescription for Desktop Health
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
If you're an IT exec at a healthcare organization responsible for maintaining systems and end users, smoothing out electronic medical records implementations, and modernizing your mobility and desktop solutions, take a dose of this Windows 7 desktop migration strategy. You'll have happy healthcare systems and improve patient care!
Accurate Asset Tracking Boosts Small Business Profits and Productivity
[ Source: Wasp Barcode Technologies ]
March 2010-
From misplaced notebook computers and software licenses, from pre-paid gas cards to heavy equipment, businesses heavily invest in assets critical to their success. Yet locating these vital items can be time-consuming, onerous and, ultimately, expensive. Discover how today's affordable and effective asset-tracking technologies eliminate these unproductive, costly quests for business resources, empowering staff to spend their time serving customers and increasing sales.
In this whitepaper, you’ll learn:
· The time and money many companies waste ...
Delivery Media to iPhones and iPads With Helix Solutions
[ Source: RealNetworks Inc ]
June 2010-
Adoption of mobile multimedia has grown steadily to where over 50% of mobile devices have the ability to support playback of video and video content. While delivering live or on-demand content to these devices has been difficult based on the range of protocols, codecs, networks, and standards available as well as end users reluctance to pay additional data charges for such content, RealNetworks Helix Media Delivery Platform is seen as a leader in meeting the requirements ...
Qualcomm’s GPSOne Solution
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
As enterprises increasingly go wireless and workers become increasingly mobile, location-based services grow in importance. Underlying all LBS is a critical technology: GPS. Leslie Presutti, director of product management at Qualcomm, discusses the growing LBS market and importance of GPS. She discusses the changes in the market, the must-have feature for today’s users, and how Qualcomm’s gpsOne can help providers fit into that market. With chips, software, tools, application support, and systems, Qualcomm ...
A Mobile Software Quality Framework
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
February 2009-
Today’s mobile software companies face a daunting challenge: How can they achieve quality while getting to market swiftly? After all, speed is king in the mobile market. New technologies are constantly being introduced; new mobile device platforms are emerging at a prodigious rate; competitors are constantly “one-upping” each other in an ever-escalating arms race of new features and interfaces. The trade-off between speed and quality in mobile software development is an illusion--or should be. ...
Improving Healthcare Delivery with Role-Enabled Communications
[ Source: NEC ]
September 2009-
Today, more healthcare IT organizations than ever are interested in implementing UC applications in a planned, cost effective manner. In order to meet their tremendous potential for improved healthcare delivery requires more than UC - it requires role-enabled communications. Download NEC's whitepaper to see how to deal with healthcare challenges.