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Resource Central at Healthcare IT News.com collects industry knowledge in a variety of media and file formats and makes it available, on demand, to healthcare IT professionals. The goal? To enable better decision-making through timely, relevant and thorough sources of data and information. You can browse our library of resources by clicking on a category above, searching by keyword, or perusing the latest additions below. If you have a resource to suggest, email us at editor@healthcareitnews.

White Papers

  • Achieving HIPAA Compliance with Enterprise Single Sign-On

    To achieve HIPAA compliance, organizations need to adopt and enforce a range of policies, processes and procedures. Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) solutions can help ensure the success of these initiatives. However, with so a variety of solutions available, healthcare providers should look for products that address key aspects of HIPAA security requirements. Read how healthcare organizations worldwide have successfully addressed HIPAA requirements by implementing Imprivata OneSignŽ.
  • Accelerate and Optimize Your PACS Performance

    This Tolly Group benchmark study evaluated the bandwidth and graphics display benefits of the Speed-Screen Progressive Display feature available in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 over a variety of network types in a simulated healthcare Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) application.
  • Business Class Ethernet: Trends in Perspective

    View this eBook and see how this engaging format lets you explore the very latest trends in Ethernet services for the enterprise. Hear why there's been a resurgence of interest in the technology, what enterprise applications are driving its usage, and how firms are now using Ethernet beyond the LAN.
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Research

  • Essentials of the US Hospital IT Market - 3rd Edition

    How much has today's economy impacted healthcare IT? Find the answers in the third edition of Essentials of the US Hospital IT Market. Available in PDF format, this report is based on an analysis of current data taken from the HIMSS Analytics Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ Database(TM) ). Essentials provides a current and composite overview of the US hospital IT market including a 5-Year Compounded Annual Growth Rate market spend forecast and overviews for 16 healthcare IT applications. Published May, 2008.
  • Where Are We? A Status Report on CPOE Adoption

    When KLAS first began measuring CPOE adoption in 2003, less than 3.5 percent of U.S. hospitals were doing any form of organized CPOE, nearly half of all pharmacy orders entered by physicians were reentered in the pharmacy, and only 45,000 physicians across the country used CPOE technology. Which vendors lead CPOE adoption today, and how satisfied are their clients? Are physicians more accepting of the technology? What can we learn from providers who have deployed CPOE technology? Published February 2008
  • Closeup on PACS Vendor Performance

    PACS is now viewed as an essential clinical IT solution in healthcare, providing streamlined efficiency, higher quality patient care, clinician satisfaction, and cost savings. KLAS' 2008 study on Acute Care PACS systems focuses on data from 641 respondents, employed at 200+ bed hospitals, utilizing 19 different PACS vendors. Published April 2008
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Web Seminars

  • Transforming Clinical Workflow for Mobile Point of Care

    Join this one-hour Web seminar on Tuesday, July 22nd at 2PM EST, and learn how the transformation to mobile point of care requires a strategy to mobilize information flows and modify workflow within the organization. In this Web seminar, you will hear directly from your peers about their challenges and success with transforming workflow as part of mobile point of care. They'll cover the organizational and IT issues associated with these transformations and offer best practices on how to address those challenges.
  • Changing Healthcare As We Know It: The Importance of Core Measures

    Join this one-hour Web seminar on Thursday, July 24th at 2 PM EST, and listen to Christy Dean-Benson, Clinical Informatics and Analysis Manager Quality Improvement at Moses Cone Health Systems and Rhonda Keating, Solutions Executive with Thomson Reuters, to learn how Moses Cone Health Systems uses core measures to their promote value within all departments and uses dashboards to help maintain focus on critical areas that affect overall performance. This session describes one health system's process and key learnings in defining core measures dashboards, their value, formats and steps to a successful implementation.
  • On-Demand Web seminar - Case Study: Maximizing Healthcare Enterprise Profitability and Efficiency

    View this Web seminar to explore how enterprise performance management can help you maximize profitability, immunize your hospital against noncompliance and optimize operational efficiency by ensuring delivery of information when it's needed, in context. Hear how a best-run healthcare system, Wheaton Franciscan, is operating with integrated financials adaptable to rapid business change and can predict future financial performance for its 100 health and shelter service organizations in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Sponsored by SAP.
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June 2008
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