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Overcoming the Risks of Bacterial Conditions Found in Computer Keyboards at Healthcare Facilities

Computer technology has become a vital component of patient care in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, but has it also introduced new threats to those patients? Research indicates that computer keyboards can act as reservoirs for microorganisms and bacteria that can be cross-transmitted via the hands of healthcare providers. This free white paper examines the risks associated with these bacterial conditions in keyboards and how they can be overcome.

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Palomar Health Improves Team Communication with Enhanced Nurse Call System

Watch this informative video to learn how Palomar Health - the largest health district in the state of California - implemented healthcare alert management software to connect its nurse call system...

Topic: Meaningful Use

Five Ways Instant Communications Among Doctors Benefit Your Entire Hospital

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...

Topic: Mobile

The Six Most-Overlooked Principles in Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

The modern BCDR discipline presents exceptional opportunities to increase efficiency, lower costs, and reduce risk. For IT organizations contemplating a makeover of their BCDR operations, this...

Topic: Business Intelligence

Featured Resources

Using Digital to Transform Information Systems

Learn how the University of Pennsylvania’s Health System transformed its information system via digitization. What started as an intention to reduce the paper load generated by a single patient visit, turned into a comprehensive overhaul of the hospital’s medical and financial records. The end result? Dramatically increased efficiencies across all departments. Learn More

Why Account Based Plans are Critical to Consumer Loyalty

Healthcare financial accounts are becoming the first line in consumer-driven healthcare interaction. Health plans that don't offer health spending accounts are missing out on the critical early consumer interaction that drives loyalty. Learn about key trends and important changes in health spending accounts and health plan administration, and find out how health plans and TPAs scope and implement the right solutions for themselves and their customers. Learn More

Connecting Care Coordination Teams, Anywhere, Anytime

The explosion of mobile health and advances in medical technology has been accompanied by a parallel increase in acute-care complexity and coordination challenges. Today, test results, x-rays and even snapshots of wounds can be shared among clinicians in less time than it takes to go from one hospital floor to another, and patients are being treated by an increasing array of specialists – thanks to the flexibility of mobile health technology. Learn More

Evaluating HIE for Population Health: The NY Million Hearts Initiative

Health information exchanges (HIEs) have tremendous potential value for measuring population health and promoting health improvement. Hixny, a RHIO with high HIE adoption, School of Public Health, University at Albany and the New York State Department of Health conducted a pilot project to evaluate this potential for achieving goals for hypertension control in the Million Hearts Initiative. This presentation will report on results. Learn More

From Healthcare Provider to Provider and Payer: Achieving the Vision for Advancing Health

Memorial Hermann's expansion into the health insurance business is a key component to realizing its new vision to "advance health." Hear how this health system overcame challenges and took advantage of opportunities on its journey to develop value-added health plans and employer solutions. Learn More

From 'Zero' to 'Healthcare Analytics Insights' in 3 Weeks

Join Hospital Physician Partners’ CIO, Data Architect, and Senior BI Analyst as they take you through a journey of their rapid analytics deployment on the Microsoft BI Platform with Pyramid Analytics, allowing them to turn "mountains of data" into "insights." Additionally, HPP implemented the solution so that the new insights would be delivered in an easy-to-use, and intuitive self-service framework for its business and care delivery personnel. Learn More

Leveraging Best Practices through the Point-of-Care Technology: Enabling Quality of Patient Care

The point-of-care technology plays pivotal role in improving care, reducing cost and enhancing patient experience, such as eliminating unnecessary steps and re-work, and offloading selected testing and self-monitoring capabilities to home setting for patient self-management. This session provides an overview of trends and best practices in point-of-care technology, as well as challenges in applying point-of-care technology. Learn More

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2015 H.I.T. Men & Women Awards

The top three vote-getters across three categories will be honored at the H.I.T. Men & Women ceremony, sponsored by awards co-founder Emids, during the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition at McCormick Place in Chicago.

VOTE for the 2015 H.I.T. Men & Women here!

Blogs

Sign posts on the road to connected health adoption

March 3, 2015 | Joseph C. Kvedar

As Joseph Kvedar, MD, has traveled the road of adoption for connected health for two decades, he has paid attention to the major sign posts -- defining moments when the dialogue changes in such a way that the whole organizational strategy changes with it. More

Integrating claims and clinical data to improve population health

March 3, 2015 | Ken Yale

Until recently, technology-enabled efforts to improve population health relied heavily on the use of claims data alone. While there is evidence this approach has merit, there is also a new opportunity to take these efforts to the next level. More

What is the optimal future role for ONC?

March 2, 2015 | John Halamka

Some pundits have suggested that ONC step aside and return all aspects of health IT policy and technology to the private sector. Others have suggested top-down command and control, including centralized governance to ensure interoperability. More

Prepare for the tsunami of patient data with integrated, flexible technology

February 26, 2015 | Michael Raymer, Steve Emery

Hospitals and physician practices have been slow to adopt online platforms that allow them to connect with patients at home or on their mobile devices. However, patients will increasingly demand online connections with their providers. More