Sponsored Whitepapers

A Roadmap for BYOD Adoption
The consumerization of IT is challenging most healthcare organizations to meet the growing demand to support a broad array of user-owned end-point devices into their mission-critical networks. Employees and patients demand the use of their own devices while IT professionals struggle maintaining security and control in this tightly regulated industry. The following white paper provides a roadmap for organizations looking to embrace the user-initiated BYOD movement while maintaining security and control.

Seven Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today
Learning from the past is one thing, but real competitive advantage happens you get it right the first time. Read this white paper to uncover why predictive analytics is becoming a necessity for companies to gain and maintain advantage: Why predictive analytics has emerged as a proven way to gain competitive advantage; how you can use your company’s accumulated information to predict effective ways to increase sales, enhance customer relationships, address consumer needs, and more; and how predictive analytics enables people all across your business to gain more insight, make better decisions and take more decisive actions when they matter most.

Transforming Healthcare Delivery with Analytics
Healthcare organizations strive to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of care. Using analytics to create new insights and optimize all types of decisions can transform healthcare delivery. This whitepaper by Decision Management Solutions discusses how advanced analytics can drive real time; point-of-care decision making that saves lives and improves the quality of care.

Better Patient Care: Virtually There
This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment. Read the report to find out how desktop virtualization has helped these organizations improve efficiency in the IT department, drive adoption of EMR applications, and support clinician mobility with wireless access, various client hardware options, and single sign-on.

The State of EHR Adoption: On The Road to Improving Patient Safety
Despite being identified as an essential tool to support quality care initiatives, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, EMR and EHR systems have been stuck in a slow growth cycle. However, pressure is quickly mounting on caregivers to adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR/EHR technology. Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption. Download this report to discover how organizations are overcoming obstacles to adoption, how they're benefitting from EMR/EHR solutions, and where the industry is going next.

What Healthcare Organizations Should Look for in a Recruitment Technology!
Tired of looking at that pile of paper resumes on your desk? Are you thinking, "There has to be an easier way to go through these resumes to find the talent I need for my organization"? The following webinar discusses how a recruitment technology can help you streamline and optimize your hiring processes. We also had Baptist Memorial Healthcare's Director of Talent Acquisitions as a guest speaker, who discussed how iCIMS helped her organization.

OpenText Social Communities: Paving the road towards a more social business
A social business is one that weaves a social fabric into all of its business processes to help build stronger connections between its customers, partners, stakeholders, and employees, while increasing purpose-driven communications. Learn how OpenText Social Communities can help "socialize" your business processes through encouraging more efficient knowledge sharing and collaboration and creating more engaging customer experiences.

The Affect the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Will Have On Hospitals Adopting Electronic Medical Records
Johnny Roldan, University of Illinois at Chicago health informatics (UIC) graduate student, and HIMSS Analytics employee presents on the topic of ARRA. His presentation titled, The Affect the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Will Have On Hospitals Adopting Electronic Medical Records, received accolades from UIC faculty, and entertained great response during the UIC sponsored webinar.

Log Management & Compliance Best Practices: Healthcare Industry Sector
To protect and secure electronic protected health information or patient records, you need to know who is accessing which systems and data, and what users are doing at all times. Records of all events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs, W3C logs or Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices. Think about it log files contain complete audit trails of access, additions, deletions or manipulation of key information (i.e. employee records, patient health data, etc.).

9 Usability Mistakes Your Team is Probably Making (And How to Fix Them)
90% of physicians are concerned about the usability of their EHR systems. Yet most vendors say they already put careful thought into their software design, leaving them wondering what more they can improve. This paper reveals 9 of the most common mistakes software teams make when it comes to usability, often without even realizing it. Learn these before you start preparing for meaningful use phase 2!

Standards-based Interoperability for Mobile Caregiver Devices
Real time communication in hospitals is critical, making mobile communication solutions even more critical. Learn how Polycom increases staff efficiency and improves patient care by utilizing the IHE to deliver alarms and alert messages to the mobile devices used by healthcare professionals.

Usability Mistakes Your Team is Probably Making (And How to Fix Them)
Meaningful Use Stage 2 will require Healthcare software vendors to improve their products' usability. Yet most vendors say they already put careful thought into their software design, leaving them wondering what they can improve. This paper shows organizations what they can do to prepare for Meaningful Use Stage 2 today, tackling 9 of the most common usability process gaps teams have and how they can fix them.

Nurses Already Shoulder A Lot. Here Are 5 Ways to Lighten Their Load
The patient care process is dependent on nurses. So nurses need a device they can depend on to help keep the process running as smoothly as possible. Learn how the SpectraLink 8400 provides nurses with the key features they need to improve efficiency and patient care, while still being cost effective.

Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud
This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies.

Cloud Infrastructure in Vendor Neutral Archive Configurations
Today, leaders in healthcare analytics view a healthcare information exchange (HIE) as a data source, not as an area for executing analytics. With the revolution of Cloud, perceptions are changing and enabling new solutions in Healthcare IT. With these changes, communities of information collaborators will emerge with known lineage. Using rich-metadata, optimal pathways will be created to enhance patient care. Managing, mining and exhanging this data will be critical. This paper talks about how Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) will create a new paradigm for medical imaging and be the cornerstone for how we manage that data.

Medical Image Archiving - Reducing the Cost and Complexity
This white paper provides a practical guide for IT departments as they examine their current image archiving strategy and explore new options. It summarizes imaging challenges, existing storage approaches, and the business benefits of the cloudbased archiving approach. The paper also introduces the Symantec^TM Health Safe cloud-based archiving service - designed and managed by the world's leader in security and information management.

Using Business Process Management and Business Intelligence to Improve Healthcare
The healthcare industry has seen an expanding focus on clinical outcomes as they are increasingly tied to reimbursement and meeting regulatory requirements. Hospitals must be able to improve and report on more clinical outcomes than ever before. This white paper focuses on leveraging technologies such as business process management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) to help tackle these challenges.

ICD-10 Will Drive Coding Evolution
White Paper Report from the Health Care IT Program Suite
The Advisory Board Company
The majority of hospitals have not yet implemented sophisticated clinical documentation using structured templates that generate discrete data coded to a standard medical vocabulary. With the implementation of the more complex and numerous ICD-10 codes through the unfunded government mandate for hospitals to upgrade to ICD-10 coding on October 1, 2013, hospitals will need to seek technologies to improve coding efficiencies or risk financial setbacks. In this whitepaper, we evaluate the emerging technologies that can increase coding efficiencies to minimize staffing shortages of coding personnel during and after the ICD-10 conversion, followed by key action items to support this transformation and ensure best practice application.

Disease Outbreak Stopped Dead By Connected Community
Achieving value with Axolotl's standards-based interoperability services.