White papers

Managing AV Signals for Telemedicine and Video Conferencing Services

With the arrival of the Affordable Care Act, big changes are coming very soon to healthcare providers.

One of the biggest changes will be the huge influx of newly insured patients. Healthcare providers will have to rely on telemedicine and video teleconferencing services to manage it. Which means now’s the time to make sure your IT infrastructure can manage the AV signals telemedicine services require. How? With a proven AV solution.

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.

Successful EHR Change Management

There are many important factors to consider when rolling out an EHR implementation, and one of the most important is getting your people behind the change. This paper walks you through the process of  making sure employees have the tools, training and support to navigate the transition successfully.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Return on Investment in EHRs

This whitepaper discusses features and benefits of an EHR system, government incentives, sources for ROI (return on investment) as well as building the business case for EHR. WE also address areas of efficiency savings and reductions in “soft costs”, as well as a customer example who realized many of these benefits.  Download this whitepaper now for additional details.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Four EHR Change-Management Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)

Careful planning and effective change management can help keep missteps – and the stress and costs that come with them – to a minimum when implementing electronic health records (EHR).  This report presents strategies for avoiding common problems as you select technology, choose your implementation team, assign responsibilities and lay out the logistics.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Health System Chief Information Officers: Juggling responsibilities, managing expectations, building the future

CIOs face daunting challenges in the day-to-day management of IT departments in health care systems and academic medical centers. Beyond traditional responsibilities for clinical and administrative platforms, applications, and integration into work flow, CIOs face an unprecedented number of challenges that strain resources and stretch the capabilities of their organizations:

Michael Gray Whitepaper, “The Bridge from PACS to VNA – Scale-Out Storage”

Moving to a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) for image archival, retrieval and management requires a phased storage approach due to the capital and operational expenditures involved.  The EMC Isilon scale-out approach provides a simple, predictable, and manageable path from PACS (Picture archiving and Communications System) to VNA.

Improving Healthcare Data Management

 

This EMC Perspective outlines how the combination of EMC Isilon hardware, single file system, and OneFS management software overcomes silos and delivers the performance needed to meet the growing data challenge facing healthcare organizations.

Solving The Resource Management Challenge: How to Effectively Plan for Capacity and Allocate Resources

Struggling with Resource Management?  Download this case study to learn how Delta Dental overcame its Resource Management challenges.

Todays’ healthcare providers are constantly faced with competing demands for their resources in the quest to provide top-notch care. With so many initiatives and programs around EMR/EHR, HIPPA and Mobile Data, you might be asking yourself:

Best practice strategies for agile healthcare integration

Across the healthcare industry, information is fragmented across disparate systems. Without the right strategy or tools, the task of integrating data is seen as too difficult, time consuming, and expensive for most healthcare organizations. But in order to succeed in improving care, data integration is mandatory. This white paper examines the importance of achieving comprehensive, agile healthcare integration and offers best-practice strategies for helping US health organizations attain this goal and simplify the complexity of proprietary interfaces and systems.

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