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 ...
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 ...
RSS Mobile Reader
[ Source: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd ]
May 2009-
The RSS feed reader is a J2ME MIDP application that is able to read most RSS feed versions. RSS is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other content like blogs and news. The data is stored on the mobile device and updated on request. It supports most encodings. RSS is a family of Web-feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and pod casts. An ...
4G And Its Evolution
[ Source: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd ]
May 2009-
This paper focuses on 4G -- its features, initiatives, architectures, business models, specifications like physical and MAC layer, channel access, error control coding, and OFDM. Higher-layer issues, like mobility, congestion, and QoS are also discussed.
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 ...
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. ...
Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) In Healthcare: Wi-Not Wi-Fi?
[ Source: Awarepoint Corporation ]
August 2009-
CIOs must ask some very important questions to appraise the cost and value of Wi-Fi-based RTLS: Are you really using existing infrastructure? What is the cost (in time and expertise) for on-going maintenance of Wi-Fi RTLS? How will Wi-Fi RTLStraffic affect your network? The “just add water” story Wi-Fi marketers publicize loses steam in real-world applications. Once you’ve optimized your Wi-Fi infrastructure for RTLS, you will need extensive location planning of highly trained individuals ...