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Written by David Chong
An upgrade for an outdated remote access solution extends the network while bolstering endpoint control.
Recently, Sunnybrook Hospital, of the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, located in Toronto, found itself facing issues not uncommon to many hospitals—physicians and administrators were demanding easier remote access to the information systems of the healthcare organization, while simultaneously, our IT staff saw a need to increase protection for those very resources. With research, we discovered new technologies that could solve the challenges we were facing, such as e-prescription systems, proximity cards, biometric-readers, single sign-on (SSO) solutions, and secure sockets layer virtual private networks (SSL VPN) with endpoint control
Written by Thomas Devin
A Web-based RCM system enhances cash flow for a multispecialty group practice.
A number of years ago, leadership at Core Physician Services, Exeter, N.H., a community-based multispecialty group practice with 91 providers, came to the realization that delivering exemplary care was not the only factor affecting the practice’s success and stability. It must also ensure that the business side of the practice is as well cared for as its patients.
Written by Tim Minahan
Can Supply Management Technology Be the Antidote to the Healthcare Crisis?
It doesn't take a doctor to diagnose that America is facing a healthcare crisis. Thanks to an aging population and greater longevity, healthcare costs are spiraling out of control. Healthcare spending is expected to top $3 trillion by 2012, accounting for nearly 17 percent of the country's GDP.
Written by E. Victor Brown, Senior Editor
A Midwest medical center uses server-based phone technology to streamline shift reporting.
Shift change patient reporting takes place several times a day at every hospital in the country. And for many, it can be an inefficient, noisy and potentially error-prone process. Things were no different for Provena St. Joseph Medical Center, who began their search for a solution that would standardize handoff communications and thereby eliminate those challenges while complying with The Joint Commission requirements.
Written by Rob Isreal
A multi–layered approach to network security is required to reduce the risk imposed by the proliferation of removable storage devices.
Like any CIO, security is always top–of–mind for me, especially when it comes to protecting sensitive patient information and complying with HIPAA regulations. In recent years, we’ve seen the influx of inexpensive storage media—from MP3 players and PDAs to USB thumb drives and external hard drives—facilitating the dissemination of information further and further away from the enterprise core. What’s more, attackers are writing increasingly complex, customized malicious code designed to compromise a company’s proprietary information.
Written by Luther Martin
Today’s encryption technology can be cheaper, simpler and safer.
The deadline for complying with the HIPAA Security Rule has come and gone. Many consultants who once specialized in HIPAA compliance now have new work, such as advising clients about Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. While many security vendor Web sites have removed HIPAA compliance as a compelling reason to buy their products, entities covered under HIPAA are still required to perform a periodic review of the security measures used to comply with the Security Rule, and to modify the measures that they implement as appropriate.
Written by Laura Cantrall Cordio
Technological advancement may facilitate a healthcare organization’s drive to efficiency. However, wide adoption is usually governed by the provider’s tolerance for change.
Advanced technologies that eventually succeed in establishing significant usage in a market typically follow well-charted adoption curves. Such models suggest that innovations take root with early adopters who like to try the new, move through various stages of wider adoption as successes are shown and more conservative users adopt, and eventually achieve maturity with a broad, mainstream user base. The central issue for a technology is usually the rate at which it passes through this curve.
Written by Eileen Haggerty
The Rx for healthy networks and applications is a lifecycle management strategy that precedes rollout, and lasts through implementation and beyond.
Healthcare technology is transforming at an unprecedented rate. Physicians, nurses, clinicians, pharmacists, radiologists, emergency departments, local doctor’s offices, operating rooms, intensive care units, and insurance offices all must have instantaneous access to information from MRIs, X-rays, prescriptions and patient records to treat their patients. Considering that these individuals could be on different floors of a hospital, across a campus or scattered over several states, connecting them in real-time and in a cost-effective manner to the information they need is a monumental IT challenge.
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