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03.11.2010--Meaningful Use & The CIO; Open Standards For HIE; IP Telephony For Physicians

March 11, 2010

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Meaningful Use And The CIO
CIOs have always played a central part in the planning, deployment, and maintenance of the IT infrastructure of many healthcare facilities. However, with the federal government's push toward EHR (electronic health record) adoption and meaningful use, the CIO will likely need to take on an even larger role within their healthcare organizations, and even the community at large.

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Featured Articles

Anytime Desktop Access Improves Caregiver Productivity For Alegent Health
By ThinIdentity Corporation
Alegent Health is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa, with 10 hospitals, more than 100 sites of service, over 1,300 physicians on its medical staff, and 9,000 employees.

Anytime Desktop Access Improves Caregiver Productivity For Alegent Health

Staffing Software Helps Optimize Nursing Labor
By Avantas
The MSHA Nursing Leaders recently set out on a mission to improve their process of managing nursing labor, a common issue facing most healthcare organizations. Chief among their concerns were the inefficient allocation of nursing resources, the rising costs of nursing labor, and the inability to effectively communicate staffing needs across the enterprise.

Staffing Software Helps Optimize Nursing Labor

Simplifying The Business Of Healthcare
By Laserfiche
This whitepaper argues that implementing an electronic document management application is essential technology for any healthcare business, whether a single person practice or a multi-facility hospital organization, regardless of the practice-specific applications already in place. It provides examples of how the technology is used in various functional areas and/or departments of a healthcare provider organization.

Simplifying The Business Of Healthcare

Industry News

Kaiser Permanente Completes Electronic Health Record Implementation
UAB Hospital To Integrate Advanced Symbiq Infusion Device With EHR To Enhance Safety And Clinician Workflow
IntelliSoft Launches IntelliCred Renaissance, Upgrading Its Industry-Leading Medical Credentialing Software Suite
Verizon Launches IT Platform To Help Accelerate Adoption Of Electronic Health Care Records
MEDSEEK Launches Groundbreaking eHealth Patterns Guide For Healthcare Industry
HMS Launches HMS Connexsm
Philips Convenes "Meaningful" Dialogue On How Healthcare It Solutions Can Contribute To Improved Patient Outcomes, Quality And Cost Efficiency
Kodak And MMR Information Systems Demonstrated Easy Digitization of Electronic Health Records At HIMSS 2010
athenahealth And Sermo Partner With A Common Goal: Enabling Physicians To Leverage Technology To Improve Patient Care
Holland Hospital Live On Lawson Human Resource Management
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IP Telephony For The Physician's Office
IP Telephony For The Physician's Office
The physician's office and its communication needs mirror, in many ways, that of larger healthcare providers. Physicians, administrators, and nursing staff routinely use multiple ways of staying in touch — whether by voice, voicemail, instant messaging, e-mail, text messaging, or fax.

Using Open Standards And IHE To Build Distributed Clinical Exchange Networks
Using Open Standards And IHE To Build Distributed Clinical Exchange Networks
Healthcare professionals rely on relevant, complete, and critical clinical information to improve the quality of care for their patient. They expect secure access to clinical information, including diagnostic imaging, wherever that information resides in the healthcare community.

SAN Provides The Backbone For Patient Information At Kansas Spine Hospital
SAN Provides The Backbone For Patient Information At Kansas Spine Hospital
The doctors and staff of Wichita's Kansas Spine Hospital like to look at the big picture — literally. When providing world-class spine surgeries and other orthopedic procedures, the facility's nationally recognized staff rely on state-of-the-art imaging equipment to diagnose conditions and perform procedures with a level of accuracy that many would call miraculous.
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