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Surprising Hospital Data? Only Small Handful of Hospitals Reached Stage 2
According to the federal government, the outlook for healthcare professionals achieving acceptable levels of Stage 2 meaningful use is not well. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported recently that a total of four hospitals have met the standards...
Top Worries for Patients and Their Electronic Personal Health Records
The voice of the average patient has been clear for a long time: they want more access to their health records and to take a more proactive and personalized approach to their healthcare needs. A recent study by Accenture finds that a slight majority of patients are...
VNA Can Help Crush Hospital Data Silos
Radiologists are taking note regarding the next round of federal financial incentives for health IT adoption, known as Stage 2 of Meaningful Use. Stage 1 didn’t affect radiologists as much as they’ll find in Stage 2. The biggest impact will be on security and capacity...
Should You Switch EHR or Expand Current System? Consider Honeycomb Exchange Benefit
Years ago, many healthcare providers jumped head first into electronic health records (EHR) and established what they thought was a good system. However, it’s becoming quite clear that as technology improves by leaps and bounds in very short periods of time, those...
Basic Components of a Radiology PACS System
There has been a lot of talk lately about Meaningful Use and the upcoming changes that will affect radiology departments in Stage 2 of the directive. Let’s take a look over the components of radiology PACS and how the most basic components are being used today....
Kansas Health Image Exchange Eliminates Problems With CDs
It’s crucial that healthcare providers, especially those in rural areas, solve patient data problems. However, there is a lot going against them. Patients are going to bigger hospitals, staff are leaving for more populated areas and the Meaningful Use standards are...
Meaningful Use and the Best Health Information Exchange: Are There Risks?
As a member of the healthcare industry, you've seen plenty of news about Meaningful Use. You know that many professionals see the Meaningful Use deadlines as clashing with software best practices, and perhaps you’re one of those people. In fact, many hospitals are...
Three Reasons Cloud Based PACS Helps Avert Hospital Data Loss
There is a reason so much talk about the cloud exists today – there is value in the cloud, especially for picture archiving communication systems (PACS). When a medical facility is backed by cloud-based PACS, diagnostic viewing becomes easier and more efficient, and...
Electronic Health Records Don’t Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg (Literally)
There is no shortage of grueling tales about how electronic health records have caused riffs in the medical community. Does it have to be so difficult? It’s true that there is more required of physicians today and it’s almost always tasks that take them away from what...