Featured White Papers

EMRs, telemedicine, mobile health initiatives and continuing cost pressures create increased demands on hospital data networks. This results in the need to get more out of your optical network while leveraging your existing infrastructure.
This webinar will discuss new techniques that switch vendors may be apprehensive to share.
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After surveying more than 600 healthcare organizations, we now have a better understanding of how smartphones & tablets are changing the way hospital staff communicate today. Discover key findings, learn more about the state of smartphones & tablets in hospitals and the steps your organization can take to keep up with the changes.

Adopting an enterprise imaging strategy with “any image, anywhere, anytime” accessibility is not a technology issue. Hospitals that have embraced this strategy can react much faster when future advances in diagnostic imaging emerge, and have found they have distinct advantages including attracting and retaining physicians, protecting their patients from unnecessary radiation and duplicate tests, and preparing themselves for the inevitable decline in reimbursement rates. Learn the benefits for hospitals, referring physicians and patients.
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This online guide provides a variety of printable and multimedia resources demonstrating why data migration is key to overcoming the data challenges and increasing the success of electronic medical record implementations.
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An essential overview for evaluating Workstations on Wheels, newly revised by HIMSS Analytics for 2011. This guide includes an overview of key questions to ask in terms of User Needs, Business Requirements, Culture, and Vendor Attributes, in addition a 25-point cart evaluation checklist to utilize when comparing the options.
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Read about the key requirements for a vendor-neutral efficient enterprise-wide clinical data repository. It describes how access to relevant patient data and how efficient data sharing can impact cost efficiencies, staff productivity and patient care. In addition to discussing on-site archiving solutions, it also describes the option of purchasing a remotely hosted archiving service/software as a service (SaaS).

As Health institutes struggle with electronic health records, growing regulatory compliance, wireless devices and increased user demand, IT teams must resolve network security issues. In this paper, IT experts, analysts and executives—discuss effective network user and device access policies. And the need for unified threat management to protect patient and business data.
Download this whitepaper and learn how ArcSight helps streamline HIPAA audits and protect PHI through continuous monitoring, mitigate the risk of non-compliance and disclosure, and extract greater value from existing IT investments.

Connecting Patients and Healthcare Professionals for Personalized Care
The Intel Health Guide Solution Brief provides a closer look at next-generation remote patient monitoring (RPM)— tomorrow’s technology available today from one of the world’s leading technology innovators. The Intel® Health Guide combines an in-home patient device, the Intel Health Guide PHS6000, with the Intel Health Care Management Suite, an online interface, to enable clinicians to remotely monitor patients and manage care. Connecting patients, caregivers, and healthcare teams enables more continuous connection and support for continuity of care. And it is designed to keep patient data secure, even during transmissions, helping you maintain compliance with HIPAA patient data privacy requirements. Get the brief

“Reconceiving Disease Management”
The “Reconceiving Disease Management” white paper demonstrates Intel’s vision for the role of remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology in chronic disease management and identifies the core issues that disease management professionals must address: engaging patients in health management, handling multiple and coexisting chronic conditions, and using data to identify appropriate interventions, as well as utilizing resources more effectively and reducing costs. Learn what future RPM can do to help improve disease management.

Mountain States Health Alliance – 2009 Materials Management Department of the Year
Mountain States Health Alliance was recognized by Healthcare Purchasing News as the 2009 Materials Management Department of the Year. Get an inside look at a winning supply chain—Download the HPN Article Now