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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/Wireless

Streamlined Patient Flow: The Foundation for Care and Financial Improvements

Is inefficient patient flow distressing your bottom-line and quality of care? Discover how Beaufort Memorial Hospital improved its patient flow and impacted its bottom-line. In this whitepaper, we...

Topic: Network Infrastructure

Featured Resources

2014 trends: Population health + business intelligence

Business intelligence tools play an expanding role in population health management. This infographic shows how BI tools are impacting care coordination. Learn why 56% of providers are prioritizing population health management initiatives in 2014. Learn More

Leveraging Enterprise Content Management for a Complete Enterprise View

Jackson County Memorial Hospital services patients across five counties. Many times patients visit multiple clinics over multiple encounters -- and finding the complete patient chart was always a challenge. Until recently when they began using an enterprise content management solution complementing their already-existing EMR. Learn More

PULSE CHECK: How Desktop Virtualization is Changing the Healthcare Industry

Desktop virtualization gives healthcare professionals quick, secure access to patient information - saving time, improving security, and impacting an organization's bottom line. With desktop virtualization, the healthcare industry's landscape is changing. Learn More

The Next-Generation Flash Storage: Driving Clinical, IT and Financial Benefits

Within healthcare, the data center is being transformed by flash storage. Flash powers back-office applications, databases and virtual desktops.Determining which solution is best can be confusing. Flash storage, however, is emerging as a viable solution that is transforming the data center. Once viewed as expensive and not as robust, flash storage has been redesigned to power back-office applications, databases and virtual desktops. Learn More

5 Steps to Success with Stage 2 Meaningful Use

What does Stage 2 Meaningful Use involve for providers? The simple answer is that it raises the bar across the board on what it means to “meaningfully use” an EHR: there are more core measures, new menu measures, and higher reporting thresholds. In addition, the focus of Stage 2 Meaningful Use shifts away from recording and reporting towards care coordination and patient engagement. Learn the 5 steps to success here. Learn More

September 19th @ 2PM ET -- Meeting the National Patient Safety Goal: Do You Know Your Number? What Resources Can You Count On?

You can’t create a plan to improve alarm management unless you know where you are starting. It’s not as easy as you may think. Taking the first steps are the tricky part. Creating a plan is the easier part. Behavior change is the back end difficulty. Learn Best Practice for formulating an approach on the data collection and analysis for a successful audit and strong foundation for your alarm management plans. Learn More

The Analytic Utility of Anonymized Data

Analytically useful anonymized data maintains referential integrity, so that relationships between data elements can be teased out of a patient’s medical information. This is needed for many forms of advanced analytics—such as evidence-based medicine, predicting resource demands, or estimating patient health-risk factors. Learn More

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Ann Patterson - Privacy & Security Forum 2014 San Diego

Ann Patterson, Senior Vice President and Program Director at Medical Identity Fraud Alliance (MIFA) and a speaker at the 2014 Privacy & Security Forum in San Diego, talks about MIFA and the efforts to prevent/combat medical identity theft and...

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Blogs

Real-time big data analytics for clinical care

August 1, 2014 | John Halamka

Over the summer, I've given many lectures about SMAC -- social media, mobile, analytics and cloud computing. The most popular analytics topics are business intelligence, big data, and novel data visualizations. More

The time is right for LTPACs to onboard technology

July 31, 2014 | Steve Pacicco

Although electronic health record adoption is more saturated in hospitals and physician practices, long-term and post-acute care organizations have not been as quick to adopt this technology. But now, forward-thinking LTPACs are shifting their focus toward EHR technology advancement and adoption. More

Why encryption is crucial to your organization

July 31, 2014 | Tim Maliyil

Technology poses a constant dilemma. On one hand, it makes our lives easier and, in many cases, more efficient. However, it also leaves those who don’t understand or respect data security vulnerable to thieves, and the healthcare industry is a place where this reality rings especially true. More

5 tips for using big data in healthcare

July 31, 2014 | David Wiggin

Successful 21st century healthcare organizations do not thrive based on the intuition of a few brilliant leaders; rather, they become modern data-driven businesses. But before signing off on a big data analytics project, consider these tips for making it even more successful. More