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6 Priorities for Healthcare CIOs

Every industry has its own trends that IT executives must face. But few have to accommodate the sheer number of complex issues as the healthcare industry.

Selling Your CFO on Diverse Carriers

In today’s connected world, real-time access to information is often critical to the success of an organization. A wise technology organization will mitigate risks of telecommunication outages by introducing a diverse data carrier. But sometimes technology leaders who understand the need for implementing diverse carriers are unable to sell their CFO or budget committee on approving the funds to mitigate the risks of network downtime.

Supporting Meaningful Use With Robust Data Networks

Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Spurred in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, they are turning to information technology to enhance services, improve productivity, and be more efficient.

How Data Mobility Can Help with Infection Control

The digitization of health and medical data holds great promise in battling against an epidemic, but the key to success lies in the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time.

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Patient Portals: Expanding Care and Support

Patient portals – secure online websites that give patients convenient, 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere over an Internet connection – are a fast-growing trend.

Telesurgery: Extending Surgeons’ Reach

Telemedicine leverages modern communications technologies to enable physicians to conduct examinations from a distance, bringing the expertise of trained personnel and specialists to patients to locations beyond their physical location.

Data Mobility has Promise, but what are the Challenges?

As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt mobile technologies, they face real challenges related to security, connectivity, and scalability. The addition of mobile devices to an organization’s technology infrastructure means increased vulnerabilities.

Consumer Wearables: Creating a New Class of Health Data

Mobile technology is being leveraged to help improve the way healthcare is administered and to help patients take charge of their wellness.

Healthcare Informatics: Improving Healthcare and Decision Support

Electronic health records (EHRs) enable medical staff and healthcare professionals to reduce the number of medical errors and increase patient safety.

EHRs and PACS: Health Records Go Digital

Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Today’s strained healthcare system presents a variety of challenges for healthcare providers.

Mobile Technology: Changing the Way Care is Administered

From anywhere/anytime access to care and closer, more customized provider/patient relationships, to better time management, there are many examples of ways in which mobile technology has changed how healthcare is administered.

Enabling Better Patient Care through Mobility

While we were at this year’s HIMSS conference, we spoke to a number of healthcare IT professionals at six leading healthcare providers to get their insights on how advancements in data mobility can engage the entire healthcare ecosystem and help improve patient outcomes.

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Telemedicine and Ethernet: A Healthy Combination

Telemedicine can vastly improve healthcare in many ways. It can break barriers of distance, for example in rural areas where quality routine and emergency care may be hard to reach.

Data Security and Reliability for Health Information Exchanges

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are an important development in transforming healthcare by enabling clinicians, administrators, and payers to share electronic patient information. When care providers can access all of a patient’s information at the point of care – including test results, current medications, allergies, and previous history – better treatment decisions can be made, resulting in lower costs and improved outcomes.