medicine

From the rise of data analytics to new needs in budgeting, the shift to value-based medicine is bringing a fresh set of challenges to healthcare CFOs. How can you best meet these new demands and turn change into opportunity? This Becker’s Hospital Review eBook compiles 10 must-read articles that offer executive tips, actionable insights, and noteworthy trends for healthcare finance technology.

Astaro now ensures that the network is running smoothly and the entire organization has become more productive through content filtering.

Learn how two customers in the healthcare and entertainment industries, Nebraska Medicine and SOCAN, are using all-flash storage to accelerate their businesses. Hear Frost & Sullivan’s expert advice about flash’s impact in the marketplace.

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) serves as the clinical arm for research and treatment studies for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington Medicine, and Seattle Children’s. The organization’s outsourced IT service desk operated adequately, but a desire for financial savings, enriched customer relationships, and improved HIPAA compliance drove SCCA to seek out another solution.

A collaborative video can support community health education and disease prevention, as well as connect a patient with his or her practitioner through applications like telemedicine, even if separated geographically.

To accelerate the assessment and treatment of stroke patients, Orlando Health turned to Polycom-based video collaboration.

Steve Romeo, VP of IT and Business Technology Solutions at Breg, a sports medicine company, discusses the benefits of accessing sales information in Outlook or on an iPad with Oracle Sales and Marketing Cloud Service.

Steve Romeo, VP of IT and Business Technology Solutions at Breg, a sports medicine company, discusses the benefits of accessing sales information in Outlook or on an iPad with Oracle Sales and Marketing Cloud Service.

UPMC is a cutting edge leader in harnessing the power of technology and accelerating innovation. This case study explores how UPMC was able to integrate clinical, financial, administrative, genomic and other information and use this data to: • Improve research outcomes in search of cures and other diseases • Determine the true cost of providing care with longitudinal patient records • Examine clinical practice variations to benchmark and improve future procedures • Strengthen information security, privacy and compliance capabilities

TAG Computer Services shares why a golf course and real estate office need business continuity. This success story outlines what happens after two of their clients experienced server failure, yet TAG was able to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.

It’s no secret—healthcare is transforming. The transition to value-based care is well underway; healthcare players are feeling the impact and each has a role to play, including you! Moving to a value-driven model demands agility from every person, process and technology. These changes are generating more data than ever, there is a lot of data, in fact IDC Global Health Insights predicted that over the next 10 years, the amount of digital healthcare data created annually will grow 44 fold. Organizations that lead the pack and succeed will be those where clinicians, business leaders and patients are empowered with access to clean, safe and connected data. Learn more about your role in putting information to work…

According to American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), opioid abuse costs employers approximately $10 billion from absenteeism and presenteeism alone. Despite the breadth and seriousness of this crisis, America’s employers lack a true understanding of how it impacts individuals in the workforce and their families. Castlight developed this first-of-its-kind study on opioid abuse by examining de-identified and anonymous health data reporting from Americans insured by large employers who use our product.

In the new age of big data, applications are leveraging large farms of powerful servers and extremely fast networks to access petabytes of data served for everything from data analytics to scientific discovery to movie rendering. These new applications demand fast and efficient storage, which legacy solutions are no longer capable of providing.

One-fourth of all healthcare products today are temperature-sensitive and that number is growing. For many pharmaceutical or biologic shipments, 2 degrees Celsius is all that separates medicine from becoming spoiled inventory and a costly write-off. Here are four risk mitigation strategies for temperature-sensitive shipments.

When UPS needed to ship a batch of life-saving, temperature-sensitive medicine halfway across the globe, its cold chain capabilities ensured that the vaccines arrived in time and in perfect condition.

What is the role of evidence-based medicine in population health management? With the emergence of value-based reimbursement, more and more health systems have a renewed focus on population health management. See how evidence-based medicine becomes the "sheet music" to an effective population health program.

Using LEAN Six Sigma techniques, Central Sterile Processing and Materials Management leaders at Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC) identified specialty bed management as an area ripe for improvement. They were spending too much time looking for these assets and renting too many specialty beds. Initially, the team focused on streamlining its order form process. They soon realized they were getting better—but at the wrong thing. They still weren’t achieving the desired results. Read this case study to learn how Peninsula Regional Medical Center implemented STANLEY Healthcare’s AeroScout® Real Time Locating System (RTLS) and uses real-time location to improve specialty bed management, dramatically reducing rental costs.

Help your team get access to the care they need from the office, the road, or the comfort of their own homes, with telemedicine.

Telemedicine has the potential to deliver significant savings to both employees and businesses — when people actually use it. This toolkit includes posters, videos, mirror clings, and more to introduce your team to the service and encourage them to take advantage of it.

Strong patient engagement leads to improved population health, a better experience of care, and lower healthcare costs. Even so, few healthcare organizations have a well-defined patient engagement strategy, according to research by IBM Watson Health. Read this whitepaper and learn why healthcare organizations should create a comprehensive patient engagement strategy, what each component of such a strategy entails and how to take the steps required to build an effective patient engagement program. From patient portals, telemedicine, and mobile health, to data sharing, automation tools and cognitive computing, you’ll gain the ability to leverage valuable tools for increasing patients’ involvement in their own health outcomes.

Patients and providers have begun to complain that the technologies of recent years that were promised to be faster, easier and cheaper, are actually slow, cumbersome and hindering the face-to-face interactions in health settings. So what comes next in repairing and maintaining this significant relationship, and how can digital health and medicines revolutionize for the better?

There’s no escaping stress. But for those who can pinpoint the source of their problems and turn everyday challenges into opportunities for growth, things are easier. They possess self-confidence, an optimistic outlook and the emotional flexibility to welcome change. They have peace of mind. Their less-resilient friends may look and them and wonder, “How do they do it?’ Getting there is possible for everyone. Research has proven that resilience is not an innate quality; it can be learned.7,8 Now, a new peer-reviewed study has validated that not only is meQuilibrium’s online resilience training the most flexible, personalized and cost efficient way to build resilience, it is also highly effective. The study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, tracked 600 people using meQuilbrium’s online resilience program and has clinically validated that progress is predictable no matter a person’s generation or gender. Every extra hour an individual spends interactin

In this free whitepaper, you’ll learn: •What technologies have the greatest impact on profitability •What technologies most improve productivity •Why many practices are replacing outdated systems with modern solutions •The most important tool for patient engagement, and more. Download this whitepaper to learn more!

There are potentially tens of thousands of buyers who don’t know that they need your products or services. They are your passive, silent audience. And, if you want to grow quickly, that audience is absolutely vital. You can’t reach them using personas, content marketing, or retargeting – so how do you find buyers who’ve never even heard of you? This ebook explains how to reverse-engineer their digital footprints and follow the trail back to the owner.

"In healthcare, as the trends supporting eHealth accelerate, the need for scalable, reliable, and secure network infrastructures will only grow. This white paper describes the key factors and technologies to consider when building a private network for healthcare sector enterprises, including: Transport Network Equipment Outside Fiber Plant Converged Platforms Reliability, Redundancy, and Protection Reconfigurable Networks Management Software Security Services, Operation, Program Management, and Maintenance Download our white paper to learn more."