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Above the Clouds 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.

Kaweah Delta Medical Center: Next-generation telemetry supports unified wireless network strategy 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.

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

MetroWest Health Care Alliance 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.

Royal Bournemouth Hospital: Customer Case Study 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.

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HP Exstream: Enterprise Document Automation for Healthcare Payers 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.

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.

Near and Long Term Trends Shaping IT Roadmaps 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.

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.

How to Evaluate the Data Security Capabilities of Cloud-Based Services 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

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.

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.

CLiP - the healthcare coding engine 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.

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