This whitepaper looks at the five ways doctors and their hospitals can benefit from the ability to achieve instant communications routed per physicians’ preferences. With the improved ability for doctors to coordinate care through well-routed communication requests, patient care gets a boost, staff satisfaction goes up, and the healthcare system can achieve overall greater efficiency.

Why does the Network Matter? In a mission critical Children’s hospital environment the network can’t miss a beat. 100% uptime to support life-critical medical systems and high-definition voice and video needed to be built and delivered. Find out how Maron Structure Technologies and Juniper delivered this mission-critical network.

The CMS EHR Incentive program (commonly known as Meaningful Use) is not just about getting all providers to use EHRs. It’s creating a foundation of detail clinical and administrative data – all expressed in the same standard vocabulary – that can be used to automate the calculation and reporting of patient outcomes. With the shift from volume to value in care delivery and reimbursement models, comprehensive quality measures are an essential element – else how can we determine value? But the historical approach to measuring quality using manually abstracted data will not work in a healthcare environment focused on value. Quality metrics must be automated. The industry must shift to eMeasures – metrics calculated and reported based on data captured in the EHR as a by-product of care delivery. This spring, CMS published the timeline for implementing a unified set of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and e-reporting requirements intended to synchronize and integrate CMS quality programs and reduce provider reporting burden. Are you prepared to embark on the journey to the new generation of quality measures and reporting?

The regulatory environment continues to become more stringent as HIPAA regulations require nearly every healthcare organization to maintain an easily accessible and complete archive of electronically stored information (ESI). Healthcare IT departments are pulled in many directions in order to stay aligned with federal requirements for access control, integrity, and transmission security for patient communications or implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems. Managing communication systems is an unnecessary burden that ultimately distracts IT teams from contributing towards the improvement of patient care. Today, healthcare providers can turn to hosted services to more easily meet the security and privacy requirements for electronic Protected Health Information laid out in the HIPAA Security Rule, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s HITECH requirements, and other federal regulations.

Now more than ever before, physicians use mobile technologies such as tablets and smartphones within their practice to bolster patient care, improve productivity, access EMRs and conduct video patient consultations. IT managers are then faced with the challenge of investing in a future-proof infrastructure, capable of handling gigabit capacities in order to avoid network bottlenecks over disparate facilities. Learn how healthcare institutions across the nation successfully solved their bandwidth challenges with a high-performance, HIPAA-compliant wireless connectivity solutions quickly, easily and cost-effectively.