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.
Today, the market is rejecting the three major structural deficiencies that have resulted in the industry's systemic challenges:
1) An over-emphasis on expensive advances in medical technology that yield incremental improvements in outcomes, with inadequate consideration to cost
2) The myopic focus on ...
Intelligent InSites Visibility Platform Case Study: The Lasting Hope Recovery Center
[ Source: Intelligent InSites ]
February 2009-
Intelligent InSites’ solution combines leading location-sensing devices and Web-based software to deliver the highest level of safety to staff and patients. It provides significant improvements over the noisy and obstructive overhead paging systems of the past and proves its effectiveness as a staff duress system.
Intelligent InSites Visibility Platform Case Study: The Alton
[ Source: Intelligent InSites ]
February 2009-
The solution combines location-sensing devices and Web-based software that provide significant improvements in resident care and staff effectiveness. The real-time locating and communication system uses small pendants to monitor the presence of residents and staff members within the community.
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 ...
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®
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Windows 7 Security and Compliance for Public Organizations
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
December 2010-
Organizations today are under increased pressure to secure their computers, protect their users' and customers' data, and comply with new regulations. Download this paper to learn how Dell computers running Microsoft Windows 7 can help you make your operations more secure and meet compliance requirements.
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.
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 turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...