www.drmubbashir.com Social media has helped to fill a void across various industries. It has brought a human element to many companies and provided opportunities that probably would not have happened through conventional channels. Interestingly, social media is even making its way into the health...
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For the information-technology industry, health care represents the next frontier for job growth, technology professionals were told recently. Federal stimulus dollars for digitizing medical records will mean that IT professionals and hospitals and doctors’ offices must work closely to bring ...
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Healthcare executives in the U.S., Europe and Asia are seeing both risks and opportunities as the pace of change in the healthcare industry accelerates globally, according to a new UPS survey. Facing unprecedented demands to reduce costs, keep up with fast-changing regulatory requirements and ramp ...
Read More →In spite of the economic slowdown, IT, or information technology, is just about the fastest growing markets in the United States today. Because IT has a crucial role in the smooth functioning of many other market sectors, the job options for competent IT professionals are increasing day by day. Thou...
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Here is the third and final part of my healthcare IT skills series. This series was meant as an overview to guide an IT consultant/small business IT provider in the proper direction to get started in the healthcare IT industry. We are by no means finished on the theme of healthcare IT, but to w...
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Here is part two of my Healthcare IT skills assessment enumerating the specialized skills that sets the healthcare IT technician apart from average tech. Part one detailed HL7 and IT security skills. Now we’ll get into the meat of health IT skills. Security Continued… I may sound like a broken ...
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I once read a blog post that said “Healthcare IT is neither ‘healthcare’ nor ‘IT’.” It sounds strange and even a bit funny, but it’s true. Healthcare IT (HIT) is its own branch of the information technology world. Yes, basic IT skills are necessary, but when working in a healthcare en...
Read More →The health-care industry is in an unprecedented period of change. Corporations, hospitals, health-care providers, public officials and patients are seeking ways to improve care quality and reduce costs. These trends, coupled with health reform and game-changing technology, are transforming the ways ...
Read More →When you purchase something, would you rather pay the “wholesale” or “retail” price? If you are a rational person, you would say “wholesale” 100 percent of the time because everyone knows that wholesale is cheaper. You are getting it more directly as there is no m...
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www.reuters.com(Source) consumer sentiment index produced by Thomson Reuters. Americans’ confidence in their ability to access and pay for healthcare dropped to a historic low in April, according to a consumer sentiment index produced by Thomson Reuters. Consumers reported their greatest diffi...
Read More →areTech Solutions, an information technology and Web products and services provider for more than 180 U.S. hospitals, today unveiled its iDoc™ Savings Calculator, at the Michigan Health Information Management Association’s annual meeting. Located on the company’s website, the online to...
Read More →Today Dialogue on Diversity continues its annual series of Health Care Symposium, the 2011 edition of this popular program. The agenda covers the sharp continuing debates on the 2010 Health Reform law, the key strategies of Prevention, Disparities in Access to Health Care and Cultural Competenc...
Read More →Roy Schoenberg, American Well Systems www.zdnet.com(Source) After years of debate, healthcare reform is evolving from policy to reality—and already beginning to influence the behaviors of patients and healthcare providers around the country. In the effort to make healthcare more accessible and af...
Read More →By Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE, www.healthnews.com(Source) Last year, Amnesty International released a report entitled, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Healthcare Crisis in the USA. The report was based on interviews conducted by Amnesty researchers with officials at agencies under the Department of Healt...
Read More →Quest Diagnostics® (NYSE: DGX) announced that Care360 user Paulo Andre, M.D., a neurologist in Framingham, MA, was the first Care360 EHR customer to successfully complete the attestation process for demonstrating Meaningful Use of an electronic health record with an ONC-ATCB certified complete EHR...
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