This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment. Read the report to find out how desktop virtualization has helped these organizations improve efficiency in the IT department, drive adoption of EMR applications, and support clinician mobility with wireless access, various client hardware options, and single sign-on. 
GE Healthcare Case Study: New EDI services platform delivers high availability, scalability cost-effectively: GE Centricity EDI, part of GE Healthcare IT’s Centricity portfolio, leverages technology to help healthcare providers improve patient care, process claims more quickly and efficiently, streamline operations, trim revenue cycles, and improve cash flows. Processes that were once handled manually are automated and can be performed around the clock. And by managing processes with technology—such as verifying patient insurance eligibility—Centricity EDI frees administrative staff to perform tasks that are more valuable to patient care and satisfaction levels.
Solving Urgent Enterprise-wide Integration Challenges while Focusing on the Future : Healthcare organizations today are under constant pressure to make strategic IT decisions based upon urgent needs. The challenge is to make decisions that satisfy those urgent needs – as well as plans for future growth. Discover how Kettering Health Systems, a large IDN comprised of more than 60 facilities and over 1,200 physicians, undertook an enterprise-wide interface software migration in just 4 months that not only helped them solve critical legacy interface issues but developed a technology platform to build on for the future.
Providers' Perceptions: Business Intelligence and Analytics in Healthcare: Billian's HealthDATA and Porter Research will present findings of a primary market research study highlighting providers' perceptions of business intelligence and analytics solutions - their needs, challenges and adoption strategies. The study explores technologies being utilized today; as well as providers' requirements for the future that will better enable their organizations to drive strategic initiatives to improve quality of care, contain costs and meet impending and evolving healthcare reform initiatives.Managing Risk and Enforcing Compliance in Healthcare with Identity Analytics: Electronic healthcare initiatives promise consumer empowerment and improved information exchange between providers, healthcare professionals, caregivers, and patients, with the ultimate goal of driving down costs. However, the digitization of healthcare presents complex security risks and expanded compliance challenges, as legislative and regulatory bodies seek to curb security breaches. Issues around patient privacy and unauthorized access to sensitive medical records (including VIP cases) continue to deter wider adoption of electronic healthcare initiatives. IBM with IDC Health Insights: Exploring the HITECH Act for Privacy and Security of Personal Health Information: The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) improves and expands current Federal privacy and security protections for health information. As healthcare organizations move to exchanging large amounts of health information electronically, it is important to ensure that such information remains private and secure. Please join analyst Scott Lundstrom, Group Vice President, IDC Health Insights for this webcast. He will explore the key excerpts from the Act, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) audit steps, look at Healthcare organizations who have been fined and the impact on their organizations, and outline corrective measures on how to avoid a security breach.
