Health Management Technology
Electronic Medical Records Feature Stories
The meaningful use party finally begins
Since our article ran in the July issue of Health Management Technology on the impact of delays in defining meaningful use (MU), the long-awaited update to January’s interim MU release was finally issued...
Read More...Evaluating EHR systems
What practice owners should consider when looking at electronic health records systems. Passage of the HITECH Act provides medical practices a windfall of incentives (ranging up to $44,000) to adopt...
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
Walking in the patients’ shoes
PacMed adopts a real-time locating system to improve processes, safety and the bottom line. The care needs and documentation required to meet today’s healthcare standards compel caregivers to expect...
Read More...Transcription makeover
As part of a two-phased project in 2009, Harrisonburg, Virginia-based Rockingham Memorial Hospital (RMH) set out to improve its clinical documentation process, implementing advanced speech-recognition...
Read More...Network Infrastructure Feature Stories
Critical considerations for mobile device deployments
The right device is dependent upon the user, where it will be used and the tasks being performed. There is no one-size-fits-all mobile computing solution in healthcare, but one point is universal: With...
Read More...Roam if you want to: carts roundup
Offering everything from videoconferencing to security-enabled medication management, these aren’t your grandfather’s carts. It could be said that the 21st century is the Golden Age of mobile workstations....
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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