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The Big Data Analytics Improving Patient Care While Cutting Costs

Healthcare costs are skyrocketing at an alarming rate. Is there a way to balance quality care for the individual with reducing the costs of delivering it? In this Dell white paper, learn how big data analytics can help solve these healthcare organization challenges, and how the right big data solution uncovers hidden patterns and improves outcomes, services and agility.

Turn Federal Data into Actionable Insights

When federal leaders discuss solutions for big-data initiatives, they consider ease of use and affordability.

In this GCN technical brief, learn more about the Kitenga™ Analytics Suite. Discover the four major analytics technologies it combines, how quickly it can be up and running and how simple it is to use and tailor to fit any federal agency and budget.

Enterprise Content Management: Enhance the Quality of Care, While Reducing Costs

EMC Corporation today announced the availability of its EMC Documentum Integrated Patient Record solutions, specifically designed to transform how healthcare organizations worldwide can access and manage patient information.

Improving Cellular Communications Inside Healthcare Facilities

Maintaining a consistent cellular signal inside hospitals and other healthcare facilities can be a struggle based on many factors.  Cellular Solutions discusses, not only the variables that cause cellular RF disturbances,but the solution to limited cellular reception.  Cost effective, turnkey solutions are available to provide seamless cellular voice and data coverage.  There is very little that needs to be done by the IT or facility management department of the healthcare facility.

Vendor Neutral Archiving Drives Improved Productivity, Storage Costs, and Care Quality at London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario

This 2013 IDC case study demonstrates the productivity and cost benefits that accrue from the implementation of GE Healthcare’s Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) solution at Southwestern Ontario, Canada The Southwestern Ontario Digital Imaging Repository (SWO DI-r) archive project connects 54 hospitals with 14 existing PACS systems, 8 vendor platforms and manages 3.2 million exams a year. This IDC case study examines business issues and goals, the IT approach, and the return-on-investment realized from the project.

Meaningful Use and Engaging Patients: Beyond Checking the Box

In today’s complex healthcare market, leaders are challenged to build technology strategies that meet the patient engagement requirements of Meaningful Use while also supporting their organization’s long-term needs.

How do you develop a patient engagement technology strategy that simultaneously supports your current and future goals?

Competitors collaborate for care coordination success

Ever wonder how other provider organizations are tackling the challenges of interoperability and HIE?  How are providers pursuing—and achieving—care collaboration across disparate settings and systems?

Intermountain Healthcare and 3M’s Healthcare Data Dictionary: A clinical decision support case study

Intermountain Healthcare, an internationally recognized nonprofit health system, describes how the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) is being used to successfully define and translate every data element and healthcare concept that occurs in a computerized patient record.

The Role of Healthcare Informatics in Accountable Care

 

The 3 Core Competencies for Accountable Care

What essential technology will you need to support the transition to more accountable care? Read this InterSystems white paper, “The Role of Healthcare Informatics in Accountable Care,” to find out.

The Changing Role of Paper in Healthcare

Historically, healthcare has always been a document-intensive industry. And despite the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), it remains so today. In a recent survey of healthcare organizations reported in Information Week magazine, three quarters of respondents stated that they had some form of EHR system implemented. Yet, despite that impressive rate of adoption, 80% of respondents reported they were still relying on paper records – including paper charts, physician notes, physician orders and registrations documents.

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