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Case Studies

As medical devices evolve into systems that can capture comprehensive patient information, they are increasingly viewed as a rich source of critical data. As a result, forward-thinking hospitals are seeking networked solutions that consolidate infrastructures, streamline operations, and provide significant cost efficiencies - while advancing quality of care.

Whether you're below, in, or ahead of the cloud computing trend, a good PACS vendor provides the options you want and the flexibility you need. Rick Adams immerses himself in high technology every day, and when it came time to select a new PACS, he chose an onsite system. Adams is PACS administrator at St. John Medical Center, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which conducts 330,000 studies per year.

Boston Medical Center selects Self-Encrypting Drives to secure Protected Health Information (PHI) on laptop computers

Using the Vitrea Enterprise Suite, the Royal Bournemouth Hospital has dramatically increased the use of cardiac studies, increased collaboration between physicians, allowed physicians to access cardiac studies from anywhere including home, and improved patient care.

The average time for Care360 EHR implementation for MetroWest was less than 30 days, and transition from paper to 100 percent electronic patient files for most offices occurred incrementally over a four-week period.

The beauty of the FACE Outcomes Software lies in its ease of use. FACE was the winner of the Best NHS Scotland eHealth initiative supporting quality improvement of patient service or outcomes 2010.

Whitepapers

High quality assessment is the cornerstone of good practice. FACE assessment tools are nationally-accredited by the Department of Health and used throughout the UK and Ireland by NHS, social care and independent sector organisations.

IT Service Optimization (ITSO) is aimed at optimizing the planning and delivery of IT services. The goal is to consistently meet IT service levels while minimizing infrastructure costs and mitigating risks. This increased efficiency makes it easier to manage IT resources, adapt to business changes, and align with business objectives. This paper introduces ITSO and discusses tools and processes that can improve the planning and delivery of IT services.

HIPAA and HITECH Regulations Have Evolved - Has Your Endpoint Data Encryption Solution?

Today's healthcare payers face a variety of challenges as controlling healthcare costs becomes increasingly difficult and recipients demand more valuable and comprehensive communications in a variety of delivery channels.

When a global organization that provides digital imaging and management solutions to more than 50% of the hospitals in the United States needed a support provider their requirements were not merely mission-critical support, but life-critical support. The company needed a systems maintenance provider that would meet or exceed its SLAs without fail and provide comprehensive reporting and asset tracking, two areas where its previous provider, Sun,was falling down. Akibia provided a customized solution that fit the organization's unique needs.

There are clear trends driving the course of IT today. Most recently the worst recession in the past 80 years has forced CIOs to rethink how they deliver the services required to drive reductions in costs, increases in efficiencies, and managing risks while still servicing the business at the required levels.

MedPlus is already connected to one of every three physician offices in the country, offering them meaningful solutions to manage their patient's clinical information and enabling peer-to-peer communication.

Fixmo SafeZone is a powerful solution to manage the risks associated with allowing employees to access and store private corporate data on personal-liable or corporate-liable smartphones and tablets.

Any device, any system and the cloud. Many health practices are automating patient care within their four walls.

The attributes providers perceive to be most important to their mobility vendor relationship include track record/proven solution, price, reliability, integration/interoperability and support. Learn more about Providers' Perceptions in this Porter Research and Billian's HealthDATA study.

As greater demands are placed on IT for efficiency and productivity, it is becoming more important for IT organizations to adopt more sophisticated methods; in other words, IT management processes must become more "mature".

Smartphones and tablets have changed the way we work, play, communicate and navigate our way through the physical and virtual worlds. We're now seeing mass proliferation of connected mobile devices across consumer, business and government markets.

One of the critical issues in evaluating cloud-based services is data security. Cloud-based services today can be compared to Internet banking. Consumers were initially afraid that online banking would make them more vulnerable to fraud or identity theft. Now that online security technologies have improved, online banking is actually safer than getting paper statements in the mail.

Executive Content

Successful EMR Implementation - In this Thought-leadership Series podcast, Janice Newell, CIO of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, speaks about the challenges and benefits of EMR implementation at clinics and hospitals, gaining buy-in from contracted healthcare workers, and gives advice on how to begin an EMR implementation.

A Closer Look at Electronic Health Records - In this Thought-leadership Series Interview, Suzanne Kosub, CIO of Concentra, the largest provider of employer health care services in the U.S., talks about EHR implementation, including the security of patient information, the importance of data and provides tips on how to train staff on new systems.

Merging Healthcare and Technology for a Greener Organization - Bill Spooner, CIO at Sharp Healthcare, gives an overview of the role technology plays in greening the organization, including the use of EMRs, connecting facilities in different locations, and establishing a paper-light facility.

CLiP by Clinithink is a fast and accurate indexing, coding and analytics engine that allows healthcare providers to add meaning and get knowledge from unstructured healthcare data. This online demonstration will give you a flavour of what our technology can do and how it can help your organization.

Leveraging EMRs for Young Patients - In this interview, Praveen Chopra, CIO and Supply Chain Officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, discusses the EMR implementation process, including how to get corporate buy-in, training the doctors and nurses on the system and designing the system with new born to 18 year old patients in mind.