Accelerate Healthcare Reform with Information Technology [ Source: VMware ]
June 2013- As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right IT platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. This solution brief provides an overview of how VMware is helping healthcare organizations to future-proof the entire IT care environment.
Improve Outcomes with the VMware Care Systems Analytics Solution [ Source: VMware ]
June 2013- Information informs patient care. With more accurate data, caregivers can deliver better outcomes, faster. Yet, this reality is only possible when care systems are effectively managed to streamline complexity and support big data. This white paper examines how VMware is delivering new levels of automation, analytics and intelligent policy management to modernize and improve healthcare IT architectures.
Business Agility & the True Economics of Cloud Computing [ Source: VMware ]
June 2013- Read the results of a McKinsey & Company survey that reveals a direct link between implementing cloud computing and improving business agility.
The Value of Analytics in Healthcare [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013-
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.
Read this paper to learn how building analytics competency can help these organizations harness Big Data to create actionable insights, set their future vision, improve outcomes and reduce ...
The Case For Smarter Healthcare [ Source: IBM ]
April 2001- Even as medical science advances, demand for health services increasingly outstrips supply, revealing critical flaws in the systems we use to deliver care. Aging populations and an onslaught of avoidable diseases are pushing many healthcare systems to the breaking point. Much of this unsustainable trajectory can be attributed to the considerable complexity of these healthcare systems. Most of them consist of vast networks of physicians, specialists, patients, pharmacies, insurers and hospitals - all of which ...
Redefining Value in Healthcare: Innovation to expand access, improve quality and reduce costs of care [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- Across the healthcare industry,forward-thinking organizations are developing new competencies in anticipation of the opportunities that come with industry-wide transformation. They are positioning themselves for success. And they are defining the future of healthcare. Will your organization be ready? The shift away from volume-based, fee-for-service reimbursement models is fueling widespread transformation throughout the healthcare ecosystem, laying the foundation for a more purposeful and integrated system to emerge. It also means that every member of the ...
Enabling Healthcare Transformation with Social Business [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- By embracing and cultivating a spirit of collaboration and community, internally and externally, social business is helping people and their organizations deliver significant returns on the time invested. Social business is important for healthcare transformation because it connects care providers and helps them achieve patient-centered collaboration by empowering and engaging patients and providers.
IDC Virtualizing Clinincal Desktop [ Source: VMware ]
March 2013-
IDC Health Insights conducted interviews with two provider organizations that have adopted virtualized clinical desktops. The provider organizations were identified by VMware, and the interviews were conducted in May and November 2011.
The key findings from IDC Health Insights' primary research with these organizations are summarized in this document.
Frost and Sullivan Whitepaper: Constant Access to Patient Care Applications and Information in a Digital World [ Source: VMware ]
March 2013-
Becoming ill is not a planned event. In a world of digitized patient information, healthcare providers require on-demand access to digitized patient information to deliver optimal care.
In hospital settings, downtime is not an acceptable option. A virtual infrastructure that enables
always-on availability and access to electronic medical records (EMRs), electronic health records (EHRs), and other patient care applications is essential.
3 Steps to Faster EMR Adoption with Desktop Virtualization and SSO [ Source: VMware ]
March 2013- Virtual Desktops Deliver Tangible Benefits in Hospitals
IBM Patient Care and Insights: Identify new intervention and treatment opportunities and deliver coordinated, personalized care to help improve patient outcomes and lower costs [ Source: IBM ]
February 2013-
The healthcare industry is poised for a transformation in patient care. As healthcare organizations around the world strive to deliver new treatments and meet expectations for higher-quality care, reduced costs and better outcomes, they face a critical shortage of resources and an increasing incidence of chronic disease, which costs the US economy more than USD1 trillion annually.
To address these challenges and capitalize on tremendous opportunities for improving patient care, healthcare organizations must ...
It's the Right Place and Right Time for Simulation [ Source: HealthStream ]
February 2013-
Simulation has gained tremendous momentum over the last decade in academic medical centers, medical schools, and nursing schools as a powerful method of reinforcing clinical knowledge, improving team communication, and teaching decision-making skills.
A national simulation study, conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, found that 87% of nursing schools are now using some form of high- or medium-fidelity simulation.
Furthermore, a study of emergency medicine residency programs found ...
Care Management and the Future of Health Care [ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
December 2012-
Medical care in the United States suffers from problems related to cost, quality, and
fragmented delivery, and compliance to new models and reforms. What's needed,
instead, is an approach to health care that is proactive, integrated, and patient-centric.
New strategies are evolving to propel health care in those directions. A new technology
solution, known as integrated care management, is emerging to address the important
processes and functions of those strategies.
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.
Read ...
Unified management supports the convergence of healthcare assets [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
In their efforts to keep up with these varied needs, healthcare organizations are experiencing a proliferation of assets and assettypes. But assets themselves are experiencing a convergence. Clinical devices for patient monitoring and care, building systems for cooling and lig hting, and technology devices forcommunications and recordkeeping share a common foundation.
An enterprise asset management system can be at the core of thistransformation. It can help improve patient care by providingimproved visibility and ...
The Real Action is Still at the Bedside [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
This in-depth, highly topical white paper describes how today's healthcare providers can leverage mobility with data capture at the point of care to enhance patient care, advance EHR adoption and increase clinician efficiency and satisfaction.
It demonstrates how healthcare providers can: accelerate the provider's journey in ensuring better patient care through electronic data capture; build a foundation around mobility and data capture to improve quality of care, patient safety and provider/patient satisfaction; ...
Managing the Explosion of Medical Data [ Source: HP ]
October 2012- Healthcare providers are beginning to leverage big data as an increasingly important asset. But the explosion of data, fueled in large part by the growth of electronic medical records (EMRs), is presenting significant challenges for healthcare IT organizations, including how to manage and store all of this data and siloed storage infrastructures that make it difficult for institutions to share medical records across various departments. Fortunately, solutions are available to help healthcare organizations better manage ...
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.
IBM Big Data Platform for Healthcare [ Source: IBM ]
August 2012- The healthcare industry is under competitive and legislative pressure to reduce the cost of care delivery, efficiently manage resources and improve patient care. To be successful, healthcare organizations will need to effectively manage the explosion of data, structured or unstructured, streaming or stored, and data that flows across the enterprise and external sources. The IBM big data platform for healthcare is an enterprise-class platform that addresses the variety, volume and velocity of healthcare data to ...
Unified Management Supports the Convergence of Healthcare Assets [ Source: IBM ]
July 2012-
In their efforts to keep up with these varied needs, healthcare organizations are experiencing a proliferation of assets and assettypes. But assets themselves are experiencing a convergence. Clinical devices for patient monitoring and care, building systems for cooling and lighting, and technology devices forcommunications and recordkeeping share a common foundation.
An enterprise asset management system can be at the core of thistransformation. It can help improve patient care by providing improved visibility and ...
Selecting the right EHR for the Life of your Practice and Your Patients [ Source: HP/Intel® ]
February 2013-
This whitepaper discusses foundational criteria for selecting the right EHR solution. Author Justin Barnes is chairman emeritus of the national Electronic Health Record Association, and is VP of marketing, industry affairs and government affairs, for Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.
Sponsored by:
HP Server and Storage Technology Helps Drive Hospitals EMR adoption [ Source: HP/Intel® ]
July 2012-
Learn how Maricopa Integrated Health System approached EMR implmentation - what they realized in terms of IT improvements and business benefits, including the hospital's - eligibility to receive an estimated $15 million in federal funding.
Sponsored by:
Prescription for Change: Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Patient Satisfaction [ Source: IBM ]
June 2012-
All the recent advances in medical science cannot entirely counter the skyrocketing costs, operating inefficiencies and outright fraud that plague the healthcare industry today.
The burden is on providers and payers alike to find resolutions to these challenges that threaten both patient outcomes and profitability. But addressing the problems that haunt healthcare requires a level of insight that most organizations lack.
The reality is that to gain this perspective, healthcare organizations ...
Patient satisfaction: Meeting healthcare's most fundamental mission [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- As hospitals and clinics strive to boost operational efficiency metrics and rein in rising costs, patient satisfaction is perhaps the best indicator of how a healthcare organization is succeeding in its mission. In an increasingly competitive environment, patient satisfaction is frequently used as a measure that influences accreditation and licensure, compensation under ?pay for performance programs? and quality rankings that affect the choices of well-informed customers. Learn how predictive analytics help healthcare organizations collect and ...
Turning Strategy and Innovation into Success - Driving revenue and profit growth for healthcare product portfolios [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012-
Every day, life sciences companies' such as those in the medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields' gamble with their futures, making bets big and small and risking "currency" in the form of their strategic direction, their processes for innovating and the success of their product portfolios.
This white paper describes how to connect all areas of your enterprise to help create the right strategies to deliver the right products to the right marketplace ...