Dell Solutions to Help Improve Patient Care

As part of the HealthcareGoesMobile.com community, we look forward to being a partner in helping you make the move to mobile point-of-care. The pressure has never been greater on healthcare providers to deliver better quality of care and improved outcomes, while increasing efficiency and lowering costs. Dell wireless solutions conveniently place the right resources where they are needed, when they are needed.

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  • May 22, 2009

Agency to Assess Value of Electronic Health Networks

A research group within the Health and Human Services Department plans to determine the value doctors derive from electronic records by distributing questionnaires and conducting focus groups in Colorado. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081202_3133.php

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  • By Mia Erichson
  • December 4, 2008

Electronic Records Could Help Reduce Malpractice

Electronic Records Could Help Reduce Malpractice

Although the findings are not definitive they “suggest that electronic health records may prevent medical errors and malpractice claims,” said study.
 
http://www.endonurse.com/hotnews/ehrs-reduce-malpractice.html

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  • November 29, 2008
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Dynamic Assemble of Processes in Healthcare

This month I have been working with a client who wants to evolve from a traditional healthcare payer into a provider of health management services.  This is a growing trend as insurance companies and other healthcare payers move from traditional services such as processing claims to providing more preventive and wellness services to clients and subscribers.

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  • September 22, 2009
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An inconvenient HIT scandal

Health industry leaders and observers on both sides of the border agree there are lessons to be learned from the eHealth Ontario debacle, which has at its center a newly organized agency mired in controversy this month over contract approvals and expense accounts. The chair of the organization's board resigned last week, just days after the CEO was forced out.

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  • June 29, 2009
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Getting to know you: MPOC

Having covered a broad range of healthcare technologies as a B2B journalist since the mid-1990s—most recently as Editor of MobileHealthWatch.com—I was excited to receive an invitation to help build the HealthcareGoesMobile online community. As far as I'm concerned, and in simplest terms, mobile point-of-care is the place to be right now.

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  • February 4, 2009

Research shows benefits of UC for healthcare

Recent research from Bloor confirms that unified communications (UC) can help healthcare organizations reduce expenditures, boost productivity and improve the patient experience.

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  • December 16, 2008

Nursing curriculum to receive healthcare IT infusion

Eclipsys has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, or Penn Nursing, to bring the healthcare IT company's technology and clinical expertise into the nursing curriculum. The two organizations will share the same values of promoting evidence-based practice, said Kathryn Bowles, RN, associate professor of Nursing at Penn Nursing.

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  • February 9, 2009

Health System will spend ~$83 milion on upgrade

Maricopa Integrated Health System will spend nearly $83 million over the next decade to install, customize and maintain an electronic-records system they say will improve patient safety, help physicians better manage patient information and make it easier to share information with doctors, nurses and other staff.  http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/12/11/20081211erecords1211.html

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  • By Mia Erichson
  • December 12, 2008

AHRQ: Docs using e-prescribing can improve drug costs for patients

A new study finds that physicians who use an e-prescribing system with formulary decision support can boost drug cost savings. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10581

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  • By Mia Erichson
  • December 12, 2008