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Virtual Visits: A Viable Option for Patients with Chronic Conditions
07-25-2014 | Mobile Health
A new study shows that patients and clinicians are satisfied with asynchronous virtual care as an alternative to in-office visits.
Agfa HealthCare's ICIS: changing how one provider does medicine
07-21-2014 | Electronic Health Records
The Brussels, Belgium-Based Edith Cavell Interregional Hospital Group (CHIREC) has embarked upon a plan to become fully digitized -- i.e., paperless -- across its six-site operation. But the process is not going to happen overnight.
Otsuka-IBM project aims to connect care for mental health patients
07-18-2014 | Health Information Exchange
Care coordination is a challenge across the healthcare sector, but a new project is focused on addressing one of the most vexing areas: mental health services.
Social Networking Proves it Value in the Surgical Suite
07-17-2014 | Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
A new study demonstrates how social networking can help improve robotic surgical training.
The Center for Connected Medicine: where providers and health IT come together
07-2-2014 | Health Information Exchange
It's no secret that healthcare is changing, and quickly. And perhaps nowhere is the need to keep up with change more pressing than in the world of health IT.
Struggling Hospitals Looking to Invest in New Financial Systems
07-1-2014 | Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
A new study shows that under-performing hospitals are looking to get back on track with new financial systems.
ZirMed Offers What's Needed to Succeed in the Value-based World
07-1-2014 | Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
ZirMed's Frank Bordonaro explains how the revenue cycle management company is uniquely positioned to help providers succeed under pay-for-performance programs.
VMware's Hybrid Cloud provides new data opportunities
07-1-2014 | Cloud Computing
In any industry, there's often a period when a new technology is viewed as more of a risk than an opportunity; never is that more so than in healthcare.
Electronic Prior Authorization: The e-prescribing capabilities doctors have been waiting for has arrived
06-20-2014 | Electronic Health Records
The SCRIPT Standard now supports a new type of ePA, bringing much-needed efficiency to the prescription drug prior authorization process, but only one solution in the market completely leverages the standard.
The Right Analysis Equals the Right Number of Nurses – and the Best Care
06-13-2014 | Business Analytics
Getting the optimal number of nurses on the floor requires going far beyond elementary mathematical models.