How to Efficiently Optimize Existing Health IT Infrastructures
At HIMSS14, infrastructure was on the minds of many attendees. In the above video, AirStrip CEO Alan Portela talks about how healthcare organizations can economically optimize technology...
View ArticleThe Impact of Healthcare Data Breaches
The U.S. federal government recognizes the risk of data breaches to the healthcare industry and has enacted laws to mandate protection of personally identifiable information. This information,...
View ArticleGrowing Concern about Healthcare Privacy, But What to Do?
A recent Reuters / Ipsos poll finds that 51 percent of Americans are spooked by Internet companies and their growing ambitions, “with a majority worried that Internet companies are encroaching too much...
View ArticleWhy You Need Cloud Security for Health IT
Security breaches can be costly for healthcare organizations and put vital patient data at risk. As the role of cloud computing becomes more prevalent, the need for security remains a hot topic for...
View ArticleProviding More Patient-Level Data
Below is the latest in a series of guest posts from Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH, the commissioner of health for the state of New York. Look for more of his blogs in the Intel Health & Life Sciences...
View ArticleWhat to Do with Legacy Healthcare Enterprise Solutions
Mixing old and new technologies is a pain point for many healthcare CIOs. Recently, we caught up with Jeff Fleming, Vice President Americas for Carestream, who talked about legacy healthcare...
View ArticleThe Rise of Patient Empowerment
Technology is pushing patient participation to new levels. How is this trend changing the face of healthcare IT infrastructures? In the above video, CDW business development manager Kimberly Krisik...
View ArticleAnalytics at Core of Patient Care
In the above video, Saurabh Swarup, practice leader for healthcare analytics at Dell Services, talks about why healthcare is behind on utilizing analytics, and how analytics will ultimately be at the...
View ArticleHow GATK is Advancing Genomic Analysis
As we get closer to the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo next week, we’re taking a more focused look at analytics this week and how data impacts both clinical health IT and genomic research...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Data Integration and Mobile Platforms Combine?
As Bio-IT World approaches next week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Robert...
View ArticleHow to Make Health IT Analytics Useful
The convergence of clinical analytics and genomic data in healthcare is well underway. That’s why we recently gathered a panel of experts to discuss how analytics can be turned into powerful...
View ArticleHead in the Cloud(s)?
As Bio-IT World approaches next week, we are sharing a pre-show guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Below is a guest contribution from Phil...
View ArticlePC vs. Tablets: Which is the Right Health IT Device for Clinicians?
One of the most important decisions that a doctor will make when in transitioning to an electronic health record (EHR) is their personal computing device. By personal computing device, I simply mean...
View ArticleCollaborative Care: Not there Yet, but Getting Closer (Finally!)
The best medicine is collaborative. Particularly with specialization and increasingly complex and powerful therapeutic technologies, providers have to work with each other and with patients and...
View ArticleMeaningful Use Stage 2: The Same Bike, But No Training Wheels
Meaningful Use was always meant to be a progressive process. The wise heads that designed the program had the good sense to realize that their lofty goals in shaping physician behavior around a piece...
View ArticleHelp! I Want to Switch EHRs…But How?
One of the more challenging aspects of electronic health record (EHR) ownership is switching from an old EHR and to a new one. This process of moving from old to new is called conversion, and it ain’t...
View ArticleEHR Contracts: 3 Basic Steps You Need to Know
It is hard to be good at something that you don’t do very often. For many doctors, reviewing electronic health record (HER) contracts fit into this category. If you are REALLY experienced, you may have...
View ArticleThe Medical Home: Will It Save Healthcare?
At a certain point in the lifecycle in any business, the predominant business model gets exhausted. Medicine is a case in point. The dominant U.S. business model—visit based, fee-for-service—is...
View ArticleManaging Care Transitions: Will We Move Beyond Phone and Fax?
One of the great strengths of our healthcare system is its specialization. It is also one of its great weaknesses. Here’s why: since there is such a proliferation of ‘-ists” (neurologists,...
View ArticleHospitals: EHR Friends or EHR Foes?
One of the ways that hospitals and health systems are attempting to woo independent doctors into their camp is by offering sweet deals on electronic health records (EHRs). Here’s how it works: the...
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