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The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital’s pioneering success shows that HIEs can deliver tremendous value by facilitating more coordinated care with community hospitals, small physician practices, and often-overlooked members of the healthcare community.

Carolinas HealthCare System was growing, and as claim volumes mounted, claim error rates doubled. Find out how they recovered $8 million, brought claim edit backlog to zero, and reduced claim edits by 97 percent.

In a vendor neutral archive, images and documents from multiple departments and on platforms from multiple vendors can be easily viewed in one place. Learn more about how it works and why it's important in this session.

Given the wide range of technology options available, it's important for healthcare IT executives to pick the right image management technology and approach for a long-term sustainable solution delivering the desired performance and ROI. This whitepaper explores solutions for multi-layered neutrality, a standards-based framework for unifying medical images and clinical documents across the enterprise and community.

An effective cardiovascular IT system is a must-have, not a nice-to-have for cardiologists and cardiovascular clinicians to provide optimal care and help improve critical outcomes.

Help optimize cardiovascular care with a single database of images and information from virtually anywhere there is an internet connection.

Ongoing IT system improvements are required for cardiologists and cardiovascular clinicians to enhance the overall quality of care experience.

Streamline patient-centered cardiovascular diagnostic workflow with a definitive imaging strategy.

Radiological Associates of Long Island implemented Universal Viewer to give radiologists PACS reading tools and advanced features across the enterprise and anywhere Internet access is available.

In most use cases involving flash storage deployments, the business environment changes, driving a need for higher-performance storage. However, the case of Epic Systems Corporation software is the opposite—the storage requirements haven’t changed recently, but the options for addressing them have. Epic, a privately-held company founded in 1979 and based in Verona,Wisconsin, makes applications for medical groups, hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Epic software typically exhibits high frequency,random storage accesses with stringent latency requirements. IBM has been working with Epic to develop host-side and storage-side solutions to meet these requirements. Extensive testing has demonstrated that the combination of IBM® POWER8™ servers and IBM FlashSystem™ storage more than meets the performance levels Epic recommends for the backend storage supporting its software implementations—at a cost point multiple times lower than other storage alternatives.

Watch this on-demand Ask Us Anything HIMSS webinar as we engage with a panel of experts from St. Joseph Health, Box, and MobileIron. We'll uncover St. Joseph Health’s recent deployment of Box cloud storage with MobileIron to their employees’ mobile devices, major changes we’re seeing in the healthcare industry, and so much more!

An effective cardiovascular IT system is a must-have, not a nice-to-have for cardiologists and cardiovascular clinicians to provide optimal care and help improve critical outcomes.

Help optimize cardiovascular care with a single database of images and information from virtually anywhere there is an internet connection.

Ongoing IT system improvements are required for cardiologists and cardiovascular clinicians to enhance the overall quality of care experience.

Streamline patient-centered cardiovascular diagnostic workflow with a definitive imaging strategy.

As Oracle Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) nears the end of its life cycle, healthcare organizations are switching to Red Hat JBoss Fuse to prepare for future business needs. Red Hat JBoss Fuse represents existing use cases on a more flexible, standards-compliant platform. With over 100 different connectors, Red Hat JBoss Fuse offers extensive integration coverage to optimize data flow — both to internal users and to external healthcare partners — on-premise, on mobile devices, or in the cloud.

Cisco is a leading provider of networking solutions that transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. A US $47 billion global company, Cisco develops intelligent networks and technology architectures for customers in industries ranging from government and military to healthcare and transportation. To help keep pace with rapidly changing customer demand, Cisco built its internal Lightweight Application Environment on OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat. With this solution, Cisco IT delivers application middleware quickly and easily to internal developers through a self-service portal. Cisco has decreased time to market for new applications, streamlined the infrastructure using containers, increased operational efficiencies, and improved the developer experience.

It’s clear: the healthcare industry is in need of change. And today, the system is undergoing a critical transformation as it shifts from a volume-based to a value-based delivery model. Gone are the days of simply treating illness. Now, the focus is on managing the episode of care, containing the costs of delivery, optimizing services and improving patient outcomes.

Collective Health offered a contemporary health benefits infrastructure that was able to use the data that’s surrounding us in the healthcare space and leverage it in a way that was new and exciting to us,” said Milt. Combining technology, design, and humans, Collective Health’s holistic approach brought Activision Blizzard’s benefits goals to life.

Learn how to educate your team about HDHPs and protect your bottom line from high health care costs.

Learn how to find an administrative services partner that helps you get back to what you love about your business.

It’s all about minimizing surprises. This handy resource provides a high-level, high deductible health plan crash course, some basic tips for getting started, and a worksheet to help you be sure you’re using your plan in the best way possible.

Previous best practices for cleaning healthcare facilities centered on sanitizing frequently touched objects, such as bed rails or call buttons, because these objects were believed to be major sources of contagion. However, this new study finds that floors are the largest potential source of pathogens after reviewing five participating Cleveland-area hospitals. Specifically, the following findings are highlighted in the study: • Patient room floors in five hospitals were found to be contaminated with healthcare-associated pathogens. • High-touch objects often came to be in direct contact with the floor. • Touching objects on the floor frequently resulted in transfer of pathogens to hands. • Floors in hospital rooms are overlooked as a source for pathogen dissemination, with potentially dangerous results.

Lowering costs while improving patient care

5 tips in crafting a storage strategy that delivers high performance, cost efficiency, and management simplicity that modern healthcare IT needs.