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Security Challenge Hawthorn Medical uses a Longitudinal Medical Record (LMR) application to enter patient data into its hosted Medical Records System (MRS). Physicians and medical assistants use multiple passwords to gain access to confidential patient data and scheduling on the MRS. The need to remember various passwords was time intensive and cumbersome resulting in weak [...]

Recognized as one of the 100 “Most Wired Hospitals” in the country1, Health First has a long history of using the latest technology to expand medical services to the more than 60,000 people it now serves in and around Florida’s Brevard County. It is also at the forefront in terms of deploying new wireless services, [...]

Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health is one of the state’s largest healthcare systems with 8,800 employees, 1,200 physicians, and 1,000 volunteers. Though wireless networking technology was Mount Carmel’s best option for improving inpatient drug delivery, avoiding drug administration errors, and improving physician and nurse practitioner productivity, wireless’ apparent deficiencies with regard to security raised concerns. [...]

Situated just minutes from Boston, Winchester Hospital specializes in a number of major clinical specialties, including surgery, pediatrics, and Level II neonatal intensive care. The hospital also boasts an award-winning nursing staff that is obsessed with point-of-patient care. To enhance patient care, hospital administrators unanimously chose a BlueSecureTM 2100 Controller as the hub of an [...]

The U.S. healthcare industry is presently undergoing a significant shift in its approach and use of next-generation information processing technologies that will put more emphasis on secure and reliable wireless networks as a means to improve patient relationships, provide more ‘point-ofcare’ access to critical information, and reduce the possibility of medical errors. At the center [...]

A renewed collaboration among health care consumers, payers, and providers is emerging. This “triangle of health care transformation” has the potential to improve personal health status, balance the responsibility for health consumption, and dramatically reduce U.S. health care costs, which are projected to reach $3.1 trillion by 2012.

Hospital chief executives are no longer wondering whether or not to embark on a major IT initiative. CIOs are acutely aware of their health care IT investment needs over the next few years. Many health systems have had an active partnership with a legacy HIS provider over the last 20 years. Hospital boards have animated [...]

A New Revolution During the past 30 years, health care payers have repeatedly pointed to the lack of scalable, robust, payer-specialized applications as a significant barrier to achieving efficiency and agility in the enterprise. In an effort to improve productivity, reduce costs, and increase customer responsiveness, payers have traditionally relied on internal resources or core [...]

Numbers and technology don’t drive accounts receivable and payable processes. People do. A patient’s experience related to charges – something that may happen once in a lifetime – is an indelible experience that fundamentally affects the financial survival of payers and providers. Frustration over bills quickly escalates, often negating fond feelings about a good clinical [...]