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IT Outsourcing: A Valuable Alternative for Independent Long-Term Care Pharmacies

As independent Long-Term Care Pharmacies LTCPs seek to better serve their customers while remaining both profitable and competitive, they are continuously challenged to reevaluate and adjust their business practices to ensure long-term success in the marketplace. IT outsourcing provides LTCPs with the opportunity to lower overall IT costs and streamline...

Tags: Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Long-term Care, OPESNET, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-11-11

Inside long term care with Martin Bayne

Inside long term care with Martin BayneLife ExperienceMy wife and I considered long term care insurance and watching my grandmother's estate be completely drained to pay for facility care due to Alzheimer's. We found a site called Insure Your Future (http://www.disabilityinsuranceadvisor.com/) and called an agent. She took us...

Tags: Financial Planning, long-term care, insurance, Martin Bayne, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

Inside long term care with Martin Bayne

Now that I've spent the last 14 years fighting the good fight against Parkinson's -- and thus, would be truly effective at helping a consumer understand the pros and cons of LTCi, all the insurers suddenly forgot my name. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Long-term Care, LTCi, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-31

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It's a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The best I can come up with is a federal pool paying for federalized care into which everyone above a certain age must pay, with the taxpayers making up the losses. That doesn't sound good to me, either. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Cost, Insurance, Long-term Care, Martin, Real Estate, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-21

An SOA Enables Real Time e-Prescribing for Long Term Care Facilities

Achieve Healthcare Technologies is a leading provider of software systems and services for the long-term care industry. Residents in long term care facilities are at greater risk for drug-related injury than any other patient population. Existing manual processes for writing prescriptions and performing drug utilization reviews are inefficient, expensive, labor...

Tags: Long-term Care Facility, SOA, Geniant LLC., Long-term Care

Case studies

Integrated System Helps Long-Term Care Provider Streamline Billing, Improve Efficiency

Today's long-term healthcare providers are increasingly looking to software solutions to streamline processes, increase employee productivity, reduce costs, and improve access to information about resident care. Tandem Management, a provider of long-term and subacute healthcare services to about 900 residents in five skilled nursing facilities, was burdened by aging and...

Tags: Billing, Streamline, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Tandem Computers, Long-term Care

Case studies

Additional Resources

Twitter Lists will change the social dynamic

Agree with Mitch's assessment that Twitter Lists will change Social DynamicMitch does a great job of showing why a class system could emerge and how to use lists to level the playing field by unfollowing those who don't follow back but still follow them through lists. If this gains...

Tags: Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near you

X-ray screening is badHow about we just have everyone strip naked and pass all our cloths and carry-ons through the scanner instead? There's no such thing as privacy in the Nazi-run American airports anyway.RE: Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near youI'm just going to ask for...

Tags: Infirmary, Human x-ray machine, X-ray

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Which antivirus is best at removing malware?

Run a Linux distro or a MacIt is funny, when you 'weld' a web_browserinto an operating system and viruses/worms/malware/trojans and spyware come in from outside sources it is amazing how insecureit makes an Operating System.Say what you will, Linux distro's power theInternet with Bind dns, dhcp, routers/switchesand they do not...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, MSE, antivirus, operating system, malware, Linux Distro, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Not tolerating the intolerant

My thoughts"Most reject volunteerism in search of making money, satisfying career ambitions, relaxing or spending time with friends and family."Some volunteerism is fine, and I'm glad to help out when I can - but I don't think it can or should sustain an economy or nation. And yes, I think...

Tags: tolerance, volunteerism, apathy

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

The iPhone is one of the best phones in the world, carriers with it are the problem

far from perfect indeedIt's a great gadget...until it freezes and you have to wait several minutes while you reboot it. That is if you know how to reboot it, the first time is always accompanied with panic because you think the thing went dead. Don't blame the carriers,...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, BlackBerry Tour, Apple iPhone, phone, carrier, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

How fast can remote monitoring move?

Ler's use mu computer and my iPhoneMay sound nuts, but my notebook mine happens to be a Mac and my iPhone have the ability to work with a lot of medical devices - IF the makers build the connectors and write the software.I can enter my blood sugars on an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Smart phones, Doc, monitoring, patient, computer, EKG, phone, Apple iPhone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010

Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...

Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02