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- The Tangled Web of Google Health - Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
- Several prominent web cornerstone firms, like Google and Microsoft, are pushing a system that would allow consumers' access to Personal Health Records. The medical ARM industry could both benefit and suffer by this move. The World Wide Web and the major international corporations that help users organize the way they...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Health Care, Medical Record, Personal Health Record, Kaulkin Ginsberg, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-03-20
- Maximizing Revenues in Troubled Times: Proven Methods of Extracting Water From a Stone
- In the current health care environment, everyone is facing decreased payor reimbursements as the market is generally at Medicare or some comparable rate based on that governmental agency. Everyone is also seeing increased payor claim edits and controls as well as more complicated payment and authorization processing. This has led...
- Tags: Revenue, Billing, Health Care, Kaulkin Ginsberg, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance
- White papers 2008-04-17
- Biscom Delivery Server and HIPAA Compliance
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA, also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, was enacted by the US Congress in 1996 to enable better access to health insurance, reduce fraud and abuse, and lower the overall cost of health care in the United States. Title II of HIPAA, the...
- Tags: Health Care, Server, HIPAA Compliance, Biscom, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-03-28
- Compliance: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
- HIPAA requires healthcare organizations and businesses that manage patient health information to protect the confidentiality and security of all health data managed by that organization. HIPAA compliance requirements, coupled with advances in electronic exchange of information, put significant additional technical and administrative burdens on the healthcare organizations of all sizes.
- Tags: Health Insurance, Compliance, Health Care, Biscom, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Regulatory Compliance, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2007-04-17
- Curses or Cures: State Regulations, Hospital Creditors, and the ARM Industry
- With less than a year until the 2008 presidential election, polls show that healthcare has become the most pressing domestic concern for many Americans. Consumers' rising out-of-pocket healthcare expenses and the more than 40 million uninsured citizens in the United States almost certainly have contributed to predictions that for-profit hospitals'...
- Tags: ARM, Industry, Regulation, Health Care, Kaulkin Ginsberg, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2008-03-01
- CrystalDiskInfo (zip)
- CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Monitoring, Health Care, Crystal Dew World, CrystalDiskInfo, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- An emerging career no one knows about
- I was reading a piece on Yahoo's Education today that talked about some new career paths that no one's ever heard of. While most were not directly connected to technology, one was: Nursing Informatics. The article pointed out that, ironically, hospitals are way behind...
- Tags: Patient, Health Care, Professional Development, Healthcare, Career, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- A Review of Disaster Healthcare Core Competencies: HSPD-21 as a Call for Clarity and Unity
- This paper presents the unique work product of High Alert, LCC. The creator of this work grants unrestricted right to reproduce and distribute this work in its entirety to any an all interested parties provided the reproduction and distribution includes all portions of the work including headers, footers, and logos....
- Tags: Work, Health Care, High Alert, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-04-22
- Highmark Maximizes Medicare Revenues With SAS
- With the ever-increasing cost of healthcare in the United States, providers and insurers can't afford to under-report potential risks associated with their Medicare/Medicaid patients. Otherwise, they risk losing money when they provide necessary services that might not be related to the initial diagnoses reported to the Centers for Medicare &...
- Tags: Revenue, Patient, Medicare, SAS Institute, Health Care, Highmark, Healthcare
- Case studies
- Case Study: Protecting Hospitals' Increasingly Networked Systems
- Rockford Health System, based in Rockford, Ill., is the largest health system serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and has over 3,500 health care professionals. The challenge was to protect the hospital's network. Intrusion Prevention System IPS products were researched via industry publications and analysts' reports. The Top Layer Networks...
- Tags: Intrusion Prevention System, Hospital, Network, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Intrusion Prevention, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Human Resources
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- Results-Oriented Company Management With SAP Business Intelligence
- AOK is Germany's largest health insurer. It was founded in 1881 and has offered comprehensive medical care for more than 100 years. Despite increasing costs in the health insurance industry, AOK's goal is to offer comprehensive and attractive policies at acceptable prices. To meet this challenge, the company restructured its...
- Tags: SAP AG, Health Care, AOK, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
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- The Health and Safety of New South Wales Farmers, Farm Families and Farm Workers
- There are 41,951 farming establishments in NSW using 61 million ha (76.2%) of the NSW land mass. The three most common agricultural establishments are beef cattle farming, grain/sheep/beef cattle farming and sheep farming. Between 1990 and 2000 there were 1,094 injury related deaths of farmers and farm workers in NSW...
- Tags: Health Care, Death, Worker, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Neoware Systems Case Study: Ardent Health Services
- Ardent Health Services is a provider of health care services to communities throughout the United States. Ardent Health Services was looking for a cost-effective method to replace the aging PCs in its growing operation of 27 behavioral and acute care hospitals located in 12 states. Neoware's thin client appliances, which...
- Tags: Health Care, Neoware Systems, Ardent Health Services, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Thin Clients, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware
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- Health Insurer Eases the Aches, Pains of Software Upgrade
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan needed help upgrading a complex ERP software system within a certain timeframe, or it risked losing support from its ERP software provider. Compuware's professional services team managed the upgrade successfully. Compuware took special measures to assign service professionals to, this project-employees who had experience...
- Tags: Software Upgrade, Health Care, ERP, Compuware Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
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- Leading Health Insurer Realizes Benefits of Automation and Collaborative Care
- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee chose CareAdvance Enterprise from TriZetto to provide medical management for its members on a single platform. Using rule-based automation, the Microsoft technology - based solution provides catastrophic care coordination, chronic disease management, and wellness and family care with better quality and reduced cost. Further, the application's...
- Tags: Benefit, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Automation
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- AnyWare Group Inc: Simplifying the health care Environment With a "Non-Invasive" Access & Security Solution
- Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation AHSC, the largest multi-facility Hospital Corporation in New Brunswick, delivers health care to the communities of Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Their challenge was to provide secure remote access to information systems through a simple, easy to use interface while also ensuring compliance with strict healthcare regulations...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Access, Sun Microsystems Inc., Health Care, AnyWare Group, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Remote Access, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- OpenEMed: Serving Public Health Preparedness Today and for the Future Through Open Architectural and Design Processes
- OpenEMed is a distributed healthcare information system built on open-source, interoperable components based on the emerging Object Management Group OMG Healthcare Domain Taskforce interface standards. OpenEMed is currently being piloted through several collaborative initiatives among the State of New Mexico Public Health Department, the University of New Mexico Department of...
- Tags: Public Health, Health Care, Los Alamos National Laboratory, OpenEMed, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations
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- Fairview Health Services Ensures Quality of Patient Care With Remedy
- Fairview Health Services is a Minnesota-based regional healthcare delivery organization with more than 80 facilities throughout the state. To ensure that crucial IT systems run smoothly, the information systems management IMS group is using IT Service Management applications from Remedy, combined with a custom help desk application and application service...
- Tags: Patient, Health Care, Remedy Corp., Fairview Health Services, Help Desk, Call Centers, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Change Management, It Management, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, It service Management
- Case studies
- Secure Voice and Data Over Wi-Fi Moves Baycrest to Switch to Aruba
- Like many health care institutions, Baycrest has more than 200 doctors, nurses and administrators that are constantly on the move. The goal was simple: give doctors, nurses and administrators a single 802.11 a+b/g network over which they could transmit voice and data without huge operational expense and management complexity. Baycrest...
- Tags: Aruba Wireless Networks, Voice, Health Care, Wi-Fi, Aruba Networks, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Wireless LANs, Healthcare, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Cisco Gold Partner Avnet Helps Exempla Healthcare Accelerate Storage Networking Solutions
- Cisco Gold Certified Partner Avnet Enterprise Solutions used its expertise in the healthcare industry to recommend, design, and deploy a multiprotocol storage networking solution for Exempla Healthcare. Based in Colorado, Exempla Healthcare needed the ability to replicate data among its three hospitals in addition to a disaster recovery system, and...
- Tags: Storage Networking, Partnership, Network, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Healthcare, Hardware
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