Kimberly Krisik, Business Development Manager, CDW HealthcareAccording to the CDC, more than 95 percent of U.S. hospitals made changes to emergency procedures following Sept. ...
In March, CMS concluded its first successful week of so-called end-to-end testing of ICD-10 codes. The set, which involved nearly 15,000 test claims submitted by 660 healthcare...
SaaS data protection frees up ITBridgeHead RAPid Protect Service is a new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that enables smaller healthcare facilities to make significant ...
Future WatchPocket-size 10-minute Ebola test createdResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy (MIT) have developed a paper diagnostic device that can detect multiple...
Silence.At one point or another, we all crave it. No email. No texts. No buzzing, honking or chiming notifications every time there is a new update, a faster commute route or ...
Richard Wheeler, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Verisk HealthThe United States spent $2.9 trillion on healthcare in 2012, equaling 17.9 percent of the GDP. Additionally, by 2030...
Medical identity theft and healthcare fraud is in the news almost daily. HMT talked with several experts regarding their tips on preventing fraud. Healthcare facilities should...
In researching this book, I interviewed nearly 100 people from extraordinarily diverse backgrounds – frontline clinicians, world experts in artificial intelligence and big data...
Depending on your perspective, the professional football season may just have ended or it may be months away from starting anew, but two federal agencies supposedly with the patient...
Andrew Olowu,Chief Technology Officer, AxxessIn the United States, medical fraud costs tens of billions of dollars each year, according to the FBI. To combat this problem, the...
Jake Hughes, Healthcare Evangelist, CitrixAs the concept of bring your own device (BYOD) becomes commonplace in organizations everywhere, implementation and quality remain inconsistent...
Asaf Cidon, CEO and co-founder, SookasaThe healthcare industry finds itself at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to weighing policies around BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, ...
Cloud computing and virtualization may be trending terms in the information technology world and piquing interest in the healthcare industry.In fact, some in healthcare may use...
When President George W. Bush proposed a plan for most Americans to have access to electronic health records (EHRs) by 2015, he was attempting to initiate his own brand of healthcare...
Becky Quammen, CEO, Quammen Health Care ConsultantsCurrently, many healthcare leaders are consumed with the many technical components associated with ICD-10 implementation: billing...
After reviewing the four previous feature stories in HMT’s Living Case Study series on using self-service kiosks for patient check-in, it seemed appropriate to summarize the decision...
