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Partner-Delivered IT Services Help Mitigate the Effects of Staff Shortages
Brian Dakin - 0
Burnout from the pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing nursing shortage, as well as a shortage of support personnel critical to a hospital’s operations, such as IT. Both nursing and IT staff shortages can impact healthcare organizations on many levels, including patient care.
IT staffing shortages can result in nurses having to troubleshoot technical issues or delay their work due to...
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Connected Care: University of Miami Health System Connects Kids with Healthcare Using Mobile Clinic
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The University of Miami Health System Pediatric Mobile Clinic has provided uninsured children in Florida’s Miami-Dade County with access to needed medical care since 1992. After receiving funds through a grant, the clinic built a new unit, which includes large screens, networking upgrades and a telemedicine kit.
It was important for the mobile clinic to have IT support to maintain...
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‘The Public Cloud Is a Pattern, not a Place’: Healthcare’s Entry into the Public Cloud
Ted Baker - 0
Cloud adoption in healthcare was considered slow compared with other industries, mostly because of the many commercial off-the-shelf products in use. But recently, healthcare organizations across the U.S. have turned to the cloud to meet evolving patient expectations and increasing data creation, collection and analysis. The use of Software as a Service (SaaS) products has also influenced cloud adoption...
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Zoom for Healthcare: Emerging Use Cases and Evolving Compliance Concerns
Doug Bonderud - 0
Fueled by the rapid uptake of remote work and sustained by the move to hybrid frameworks, video calling platform Zoom remains one of the most popular connective solutions in the United States, as well as in 43 other countries.
In healthcare, the platform helped underpin the adoption of effective telemedicine. According to a recent white paper from Zoom about the state...
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How to Find the Right Cloud Solution for Small Healthcare Organizations
Brian Eastwood - 0
There’s no shortage of examples of how the cloud is transforming healthcare, including hosting remote patient monitoring applications, running advanced analytics for medical research, and enabling collaboration. And these benefits aren’t limited to clinical care; improved security, lower data center costs, reduced downtime and increased scalability can result as well.
Most of healthcare’s early cloud adopters have been larger hospitals...
After two years of shifting care models to meet patients in their home, some of the top healthcare organizations are advocating to continue reimbursement for hospital-level home care. In February, more than 15 U.S. healthcare providers formed the Advanced Care at Home Coalition to push the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for a care model that focuses...
Migration to a modern integration engine can be one of the most important decisions you make to help optimize your organization. Modern integration engines have become more important than ever before, as interoperability has expanded to include a growing number of applications and devices. Assessing whether it’s the right time to move away from legacy engines is an important...
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Blacks in Technology Nashville Launches Health Tech Initiative for Nonprofit Organizations
Jordan Scott - 0
The Nashville chapter of the Blacks in Technology Foundation (BIT-Nashville) has launched a statewide initiative to provide nonprofit healthcare organizations in Tennessee with training in data analytics. The free program will focus on Excel skills, analytics, and data visualization and storytelling.
“We wanted to pick skills that we knew were important for data analysis and communication, and that would be...