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Electronic Medical Records Feature Stories
Impact of meaningful-use criteria on EMR developers
Because of the emphasis by the Obama Administration on converting 100,000 primary-care physicians using paper-based medical records to become users of electronic medical records (EMRs) that achieve meaningful...
Read More...Digital dilemma
Driven by CCHIT certification, meaningful use and ARRA/HITECH incentive programs, the purchase of electronic health records/electronic medical records systems is looming large on many hospitals’ horizons...
Read More...Group Practices Feature Stories
According to Dr. Sara Czaja, co-director of the University of Miami’s (UM’s) Center on Aging, and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, an estimated 22 million family members provide at-home...
Read More...Olathe Medical Center overcomes technical, political and organizational hurdles to deploy one of the nation’s first integrated radiology and cardiology PACS. Many healthcare organizations advocate...
Read More...Hospitals Feature Stories
How to boost operational efficiency in the enterprise radiology environment
Several years ago, North Shore-LIJ Health System, which cares for people of all ages throughout Long Island, Queens and Staten Island, established a strategy for information technology to implement enterprise...
Read More...PACS helps medical center reduce turnaround time from hours to minutes
It is well known that most hospitals, regardless of size, deploy some type of digital imaging. As medical imaging continues to advance, hospitals must deal with the significant increase in data that...
Read More...Network Infrastructure Feature Stories
IT infrastructure convergence key to managed network services
Aside from traditional telephone (voice) systems, pre-Internet protocol (IP) hospital communication systems were primarily devoted to life safety and monitoring applications, such as nurse call systems...
Read More...UC platform increases center’s effectiveness
Community health center Urban Health Plan enhances patient service and simplifies management with unified communications system.
Read More...Payers Feature Stories
Radiology decisions lead to cost savings
Point-of-order clinical decision-support solutions assure that medically appropriate procedures are given the highest priority. While research varies, studies report that up to 25 percent of imaging...
Read More...Manage contracts through best practices
Integrated provider management is more than simply managing contractual language. A best-practices approach reaches beyond adherence to preferred legal arrangements. Traditionally, best practices have...
Read More...Revenue Cycle Management Feature Stories
Rural healthcare system drops AR days and cleans up claims
When the Appalachian Regional Healthcare System (ARHS) was formed in 2004, the organization’s vision was to build a regional healthcare system that enhanced quality of life and resulted in healthier...
Read More...Leverage business and clinical intelligence
Market consolidation has left payers with legacies of multiple, disparate systems and inconsistent data sets. Many plans have systems that exist in separate silos for various business functions; the systems...
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