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The Best Approach to Healthcare Content Management - A Frost & Sullivan Analyst Perspective

Healthcare information growth is unrelenting. Much of this information - up to 80 percent - is unstructured and often inaccessible to existing systems. Retention policies, legal discovery requests, and regulatory requirements add to the challenge. Successfully managing healthcare information is a critical part of providing quality care, increasing clinician satisfaction,...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, EMC Corp., Frost & Sullivan, Healthcare Information Growth, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Webcasts 2009-07-15

Preventing Data Loss in Healthcare Organizations: Protect Your Patient Data Against Accidental or Intentional Data Breaches

Healthcare organizations have rich repositories of patient information and it is imperative that this data must be protected from both accidental and intentional disclosure. Gartner Research estimated more than 1 million cases of medical identity theft occurred in 2008 alone, and these numbers are likely to grow. With estimates suggesting...

Tags: Patient, Data Loss, Health Care Company, Health Care, Code Green Networks

White papers 2009-03-08

Healthcare Providers Tackle Complex Challenges by Embracing Consumerism

Off late healthcare providers confront monumental challenges at nearly every turn. Costs continue to spiral while reimbursements continue to constrict. At the same time, providers find themselves treating a growing number of uninsured or underinsured patients - a situation that often leads to more complex and expensive-to-treat cases, as well...

Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Health Care Company, Health Care, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-03-01

Healthcare Organization Increases System Stability, Productivity With New E-Mail Solution

Erlanger Health System is a growing, multisite healthcare organization serving residents in four states. The organization's e mail system was susceptible to downtime, and its mobile users needed e mail access from their cell phones. Erlanger implemented a new messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Now, Erlanger has...

Tags: Mobile, Health Care Company, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Erlanger Health System, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-01-01

Large Healthcare Provider Finds Prescription for Savings With MBG

The national healthcare provider, with more than 200 locations across the country, wanted to centralize the management of its telecommunications and IT services. The company sought to address several challenges. First, it needed a means to identify billing errors such as services that it had disconnected or added, billing that...

Tags: Billing, Health Care Company, Health Care, MBG Expense Management, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2009-01-01

Think Bigger About Business Intelligence - Create an Informed Healthcare Organization

Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to improve performance and the quality of care they provide. Microsoft provides a fully integrated BI platform, infrastructure, and applications to help organizations access and understand personal, team, and organizational information that affects business performance. And Microsoft BI software is completely integrated with the...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2008-10-28

Labs 360° 11.1.0 (Mobile)

Labs 360�???�??�?�° is a clinically oriented laboratory guide written for the healthcare provider who wants to understand what a given test is, its clinical significance, and how the test can aide in patient diagnosis and treatment. Edited by a practicing clinician, Labs 360�????�???�??�?�° provides the most extensive and...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Health Care Company, Skyscape Inc., Labs 360Ã????Ã???Ã??Ã?°, Labs 360Ã?????Ã????Ã???Ã??Ã?°, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-16

Meeting the Challenge of Protecting Sensitive Data

This paper looks at how the rise in data security breaches is a wakeup call for the healthcare industry. It then considers the steps healthcare providers can take to protect their data and so avoid financial loss, preserve brand reputation, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. To protect their infrastructures, most healthcare...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Data Security, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Identity Theft, Security, Human Resources

White papers 2008-08-28

Achieving a Clean Bill of Health in HIPAA Compliance With Check Point Solutions

Healthcare organizations face both opportunities and challenges from today's complex, interconnected environment in which electronic information is collected and exchanged at an ever-increasing rate. While electronic information exchange has the potential to deliver profound benefits, it also increases the exposure of sensitive information. Adding to the challenge are new technologies...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Health Care Company, Health Care, HIPAA Compliance, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2008-06-18

Healthcare Provider Eliminates Application Conflicts With Application Virtualization

Community Medical Centers operates three acute-care hospitals and several long-term care and outpatient centers in California's San Joaquin Valley. With more than 350 computer applications to maintain, the organization was encountering a growing number of application conflicts. In response, Community Medical Centers deployed Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.2 to its...

Tags: Application, Health Care Company, Health Care, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Workstations, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Productivity, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-06-01

Healthcare Provider Reduces Hospital Stays With Collaborative Assessment Tool

Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust PCT is a healthcare provider in the United Kingdom. The PCT wanted to reduce unnecessary hospital stays for elderly patients, but needed a way for multi-disciplinary care teams to build integrated care plans for each patient. To improve collaboration and ensure adequate home...

Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care Company, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Healthcare

Case studies 2008-04-01

Ohio Healthcare Organization Upgrades SAN Fabric

OhioHealth is a not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization that serves and supports the Ohio community. OhioHealth needed a more manageable and efficient disaster recovery solution and standardize IT infrastructure in a cost effective manner. OhioHealth upgraded SAN to a fast, scalable solution while lower overall costs and installed optical Metro-Area Network...

Tags: SAN, Health Care Company, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Ohio, OhioHealth, Disaster Recovery, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Vertical Industries, Storage, Benefits, Healthcare, Data Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-04-01

HIPAA Compliance and the Online Backup Manager Service

HIPAA applies to any health care providers, health plans and clearinghouses (collectively "Covered Entities") that electronically maintain or transmit health information pertaining to individuals. Covered Entities must have appropriate measures that address the physical, technical and administrative components of patient data privacy. With the exception of small health plans, all...

Tags: Patient, Online Backup, Backup, Health Care Company, Health Care, HIPAA Compliance, Data Ready Technologies, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hipaa, Human Resources, Regulations, Government

White papers 2008-04-01

Sentillion vThere

I recently had a chat with  David Fusari, Sentillion VP and CTO of Sentillion;; about Sentillion's product vThere. You'll note that I controlled myself and didn't title this post "vThere or Be Square" or something else on the silly side such as "I guess you had to vThere." It's...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Sentillion vThere, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Managing Electronic Messaging and E-Discovery for Healthcare Providers

As corporate messaging systems grow, enterprises struggle with the complex task of not only finding sufficient storage space, but also ensuring that they can locate relevant messages from within that ever-growing mass. Healthcare providers face these same challenges and more, with their increasing reliance on email and other electronic communication,...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Messaging, Litigation, Instant Messaging, Vertical Industries, Groupware, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2007-11-01

Automating IT Regulatory Compliance for Healthcare Providers

This paper is one of a series outlining the challenges healthcare providers face in Information Technology IT, and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on the specific topic of regulatory compliance. Healthcare providers face a constantly changing regulatory landscape. Faced with numerous mandates to satisfy, they...

Tags: Information Technology, Health Care Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2007-11-01

Managing Storage Complexity for Healthcare Providers

This paper is one of a series of papers that focus on the challenges healthcare providers face in information technology and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on the specific topic of data storage management. Advances in diagnostic technology and the increasing popularity of digital medical...

Tags: Data Storage, Health Care Company, Health Care, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

Critical Infrastructure Security for Healthcare Providers

The Best Practices Series for Health Care discusses the challenges that healthcare providers face in information technology - and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper, in particular, focuses on critical infrastructure security. Practices and services implemented by healthcare providers today that improve quality of care, decrease costs,...

Tags: Security, Health Care Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2007-11-01

When will Microsoft drop the other health-service shoe?

When will Microsoft drop the other health-service shoe?Azxxi: Homebrew at bestComments taken from [url=http://www.ucsf.edu/its/listserv/emed-l/27688.html]here[/url]:[i]"...The Microsoft plan, analysts say, could be risky. The software Microsoft is purchasing â€" the price was not disclosed â€" is a homegrown system that has not been used outside a few hospitals. It has no installed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., health care company

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

Clinical Forms Automation - Click-Through Demo 1 (Windows)

This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: Healthcare providers face ongoing business challenges including the need to reduce costs, comply with government regulatory requirements, and consistently improve patient...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Microsoft Windows, Automation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-09-20