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 ...
HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10: The Road to Compliance
[ Source: Patni Computer Systems Limited ]
September 2009-
Healthcare payers and providers are facing two major compliance initiatives over the next couple of years: conversion from the HIPAA 4010 electronic transaction set to the 5010 set and conversion from ICD-9 codesets to ICD-10. These initiatives will impact nearly every core process, system and interface across the industry, and industry costs are expected to be in the billions of dollars. Although compared by pundits with the Y2K initiative, the twin HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 conversion initiatives ...
Best Practices in Protecting the Technology Systems Revolutionizing Healthcare
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
July 2009-
Information technology is being integrated throughout healthcare operations to improve patient care, service levels and operating costs. Through the use of technologies such as digital diagnostic equipment, electronic medical records and patient RFID, the healthcare industry is benefiting significantly from increased accuracy and efficiency. However, heightened technologies raise a need for infrastructural technologies, such as power protection.
The Joint Commission requires healthcare facilities by code to have a backup generator in place – not ...
Comparing Wi-Fi RFID And IR-RFID Real-Time Locating Systems For Use In Healthcare
[ Source: Versus Technology ]
August 2009-
Real-time locating systems (RTLS) are becoming mainstream in healthcare environments. Although currently there is only a 29% adoption rate, this number is expected to grow to nearly 70% by 2011. However, there are many different RTLS offerings as well as remarkable variation in the implementation processes, functionality, and long-term success with each system. This white paper explores the implementation costs between two popular RTLS solutions: Wi-Fi RFID (radio frequency identification) from Cisco and hardwired Infrared-RFID from Versus, and ...