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FDCCI: A ship with potential but not empowered captains

 Tom Sullivan May 15, 2013
Has OMB lost its way toward the ambitious, if not sprawling, datacenter consolidation and Cloud-First initiatives?
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Heading to Austin for ATA? 10 popular attractions

 Eric Wicklund May 01, 2013
mHIMSS Editor Eric Wicklund outlines some of the things attendees can do while in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World."
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The VNA Strategy: Balancing Workflow and Enterprise Imaging Management

 Government Health IT Staff April 16, 2013
As healthcare providers implement health IT to comply with federal mandates and participate in quality of care programs, VNA solutions can play a critical role in helping them meet their needs today and in their future IT initiatives. Forward-thinking healthcare providers around the world are already successfully meeting this challenge with VNA. Download this Healthcare IT News eBook to learn how VNA enables exchange, supports data consolidation and IT simplification.
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VA offers DoD a helping hand

 Jeff Rowe April 01, 2013
Is there an added layer of consideration within the DoD’s desire to provide its constituents with the best service possible, just as any other business wants to serve its customers?
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Health Information Exchange Toolkit

 GHIT Contributing Writer January 30, 2013
This Experian QAS whitepaper discusses the challenges around the Health Information Exchange and details three simple steps agencies can take in order to streamiline the migration and enable a seamless implementation.
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Accelerate Healthcare Reform with Information Technology

 Government Health IT Staff January 17, 2013
The current agenda is clear: wherever possible, reduce costs and improve quality-of-care services. These directives are in perfect alignment with the role of virtual and cloud computing infrastructure technologies, which help to lower costs and increase clinician productivity while future-proofing IT investments. As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right information technology (IT) platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. It will determine the ease or di!culty of updating existing applications and managing new ones. It will also serve as a foundation to help ensure that all healthcare services are secure, accessible and easy enough for citizens to access and use.
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Easier Ways for PACS/RIS End Users to Manage Applications and Desktop Environments

 Government Health IT Staff January 17, 2013
This report provides information on some of the challenges PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) end-users face in the healthcare space, and how virtualization and point of care solutions can help address those challenges. In this paper, we discuss what the challenges are and present a strategy of utilizing architecture for PACS/RIS client access, which supports the needs of end users and makes it easier for IT staff to manage applications and desktop environments.
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Your Cloud in Healthcare - How to Use the Cloud to Achieve Greater Business Agility

 Government Health IT Staff January 17, 2013
The healthcare sector is adopting enterprise hybrid cloud across the provider, payer, and life sciences segments with the goal of improving the quality of care, reducing costs, and increasing responsiveness to risk. This industry brief goes over some results of the CIO Global Cloud Computing Adoption Study, a recent survey by IDG Research, and outlines the common hybrid cloud use cases for healthcare organizations. It also details a real-world example of how cloud computing is being used to achieve greater business agility.
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The First Federal Private Cloud: Learn to Shape, Transform & Manage Applications

 Government Health IT Staff January 04, 2013
This video will outline the benefits of BizCloud for Government, the industry's first federal private cloud, which incorporates commercial best practices and is designed to meet federal security requirements. This video showcases a broad spectrum of cloud viewpoints from speakers including VCE's Michael Canellas and President of the North American Public Sector. Learn to deliver efficiencies to your agency, as well as shape, transform and manage applications to your cloud.
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Key Benefits to a Secure & Elastic Private Cloud

 Government Health IT Staff January 04, 2013
Facing pressure to reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and achieve mission goals, government agencies and other organizations are moving forward with their cloud adoption strategies. Many organizations want the security and exclusivity of a private cloud with the pay-as-you-go economic model of a public cloud. Hear about how you can have all the commercial advantages of the public cloud while satisfying your need to mitigate risk and keep data secure.
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Shadow IT's Impact on the Federal Government

 Government Health IT Staff January 04, 2013
IT services are easier than ever to procure and provision – leading to the rise of so-called “shadow IT” groups, where executives are bypassing IT departments and using cloud computing and their own devices to bring capabilities online quickly. In this Town Hall featuring former CIA and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and CSC experts, we take a close look at the business drivers behind shadow IT and how IT organizations can respond.
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Cloud Computing in the Healthcare Environment

 Government Health IT Staff January 04, 2013
With the current interest in electronic health records and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, healthcare organizations need to use new technologies to reduce costs, improve performance and accelerate efforts to achieve meaningful use. Hear how you can leverage the cloud, and what you should be doing now to understand your options and related risks.
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When Evolution Drives Revolution: The Cloud as a Business Model

 Government Health IT Staff January 04, 2013
Evolving information technology is driving a revolution in the business of government. The arrival of cloud computing was the first in many dominos that have fallen into patterns that now represent an entirely new way of conducting business. The federal government’s embrace of cloud computing, not just as a technology but as a business model, will make it very easy for the government to procure and consume IT services and lower its cost of operations in the near term. Download this white paper and hear how government is putting the cloud to work for them.
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Improve Staff Satisfaction, Patient Safety, and HCAHPS Scores

 Government Health IT Staff January 02, 2013
Watch this informative video to learn more about EXTENSION's most popular clinical workflow solutions for nurses and physicians inluding nurse call integration, mobile critical lab notifications, mobile report availability, mobile STAT order notifications, HIPAA-compliant texting and more. EXTENSION's mobile point-of-care solutions improve staff satisfaction, patient safety, and HCAHPS scores.
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Beyond the EHR: Seamlessly Connecting Nurses and Physicians Using an EHR-Extender (EHR-e)

Alan Joch January 02, 2013
This white paper focuses on how an EHR-Extender (EHR-e) can help hospitals leverage data trapped in the EHR and other clinical systems to establish better care team communication. The result of contextual critical alerts and texts are improved communication and enhanced workflows which makes patients, healthcare staff, administration, and regulators happy.
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Pharma not so big on cloud for clinical trials

 Chris Anderson December 26, 2012
An industry known as slow-footed is preserving that picture of itself by not moving clinical trials to the cloud, and security is hardly alone among the reasons. But evidence is emerging that personalized medicine is driving change.
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New World Order: Effectively Securing Healthcare Data Through Secure Information Exchanges

 Government Health IT Staff December 12, 2012
Healthcare is dominated by the need for the sharing of detailed patient information as a result of today's information age. But it's also the focal point of the debate of how information is shared versus protecting the need for privacy, security and confidentiality. Data protection is paramount in today’s virtual environment and implementing a Secure Information Exchange (SIE) now will help organizations save both themselves and their patients down the road.
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Q&A: Smaller practices reap cost savings from the cloud

 Frank Irving November 29, 2012
PhysBizTech Editor Frank Irving discusses the benefits and challenges of cloud computing for small physician practices with CDW's Jon Karl.
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Advanced Text Mining Improves Medicare Advantage Coding

 Government Health IT Staff November 09, 2012
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are private health plans that have contracted with Medicare to receive a fixed monthly fee in exchange for providing comprehensive healthcare to plan members. In order to provide appropriate care to beneficiaries with varying medical conditions, plans are paid according to the Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) score of each patient. Insufficient documentation of chronic conditions can be an obstacle to MA reimbursement. However, even when a condition has been properly documented by the provider, it is often not coded and submitted to Medicare. Read this white paper to learn how to take the complexity out of MA reimbursement.
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Sizing Up Your Cloud Options - Is Now the Time?

 Government Health IT Staff November 07, 2012
A recent survey of IT executives found nearly 90% see business value in transitioning to Cloud computing, but only 20% have a plan to get there. Healthcare Cloud solutions require Compliance, Security, Privacy, Redundancy, and Scalability, so choosing the right path from on-premises servers to the Cloud can be daunting. Learn how to chart a quick and affordable course to healthcare Cloud Computing and how to choose the right Cloud services partner.
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