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Few industries have seen as much change in recent years as the healthcare sector. Sweeping legislation, a new incentive structure, a raft of regulations, and an emphasis on wellness rather than mere “sick care” have altered the clinical and administrative landscapes. Oracle is helping healthcare organizations deliver great patient experiences with a cloud-based strategy that uses innovative technology to meet the needs of everybody involved in the continuum of care.

To reduce risk and cost, as well as better serve individuals and populations, visibility across the entire episode of care is essential. Oracle’s Cost Effective Healthcare solution combines cost, quality and clinical data to analyze root causes and variations. Our customers are transforming to more competitive, financially viable healthcare organizations using Oracle’s secure, modern Cloud solution. During this webinar, you’ll learn: Reduce cost by analyzing episode of care outliers Alleviate risk due to clinical variations and value-based contracts Lessen IT cost with a consolidated, secure Cloud Platform Understand the tangible business value our healthcare customers are realizing

Digital healthcare is not an unattainable mirage, but is alive and well in the United States and throughout the world. The goal of digital healthcare is to use technology to efficiently manage and deliver better healthcare—providing greater value and more positive outcomes to patients at a lower cost. The cloud provides the fastest, most efficient, and most economical way to reach that goal. Ideally, cloud technology makes the delivery of healthcare fast, flexible, and easier for everyone to use—no matter whether you’re ordering supplies, hiring an employee, or reviewing your budget. However, actual results depend on how you implement the technology and on the vendor you choose as your provider. Every healthcare organization—payers and providers—will have a different path that leads them to digital healthcare. The question is, are you there yet?

To succeed in the extremely competitive environment of today’s healthcare industry, your organization needs a strong foundation. These technology best practices for enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM), and enterprise performance management (EPM) are a great starting point and can help you transform the way your organization navigates this rapidly changing industry.

Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are adopting cloud-based workloads at a significant pace. A 2017 HIMSS study found that 65% of Healthcare organizations were using cloud-based services, and nearly 88% of those organizations were utilizing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, which have become the preferred deployment method for many clinical application vendors. This eBook highlights advantages of using AWS to create and maintain cloudbased Next-Gen BI Solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations. This includes use cases from diverse organizations that have utilized AWS and APN Partners to manage and analyze data, and to discover insights otherwise obscured by the sheer volume of available information. Solutions from APN Partners can help your organization take the next step in building robust processes for making data-driven decisions that improve patient care, organizational processes, and innovative product development efforts.

With its clients’ needs as the cornerstone of its mission, a research and consulting firm in the healthcare industry wanted a better way to manage its business. The company had been using various spreadsheets and systems to track project and financial information, which made finding data time consuming and inefficient. As a project based business, with the majority of its projects ranging from 2-6 weeks in duration, the organization wanted an integrated solution to help optimize its overall project management approach. The firm selected Deltek and since implementation has experienced numerous benefits, including increased time savings, improved visibility into financial data and enhanced performance.

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East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC) in Opelika, Alabama, is a 314-bed facility that employs 2,700, including 770 inpatient nurses. With a mission focused on providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare, the hospital celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2012. In the prior year EAMC was recognized as one of only five hospitals in Alabama named a Top Hospital for Patient Experiences by Women Certified®. This distinction joins others the hospital has won, such as being listed among the Top 100 Heart Hospitals in the U.S. and on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Places to Work” in America.

A As the healthcare industry shifts focus from volume to value, standardization is needed to accurately benchmark labor resource utilization. This is the premise of a survey conducted by HealthLeaders Media and sponsored by Kronos. What constitutes direct patient care? Hands-on patient assessment, administering medications, and performing procedures clearly top the list. But can other activities be considered direct care too—even those not conducted in a patient’s presence?

Help your team get access to the care they need from the office, the road, or the comfort of their own homes, with telemedicine.

Share this handout to help your employees get the most value out of their health plans.

When it comes to protecting yourself against breast cancer, knowledge is power. This handout stresses the importance of early detection, highlighting the warning signs to look for and steps your employees can take to keep themselves healthy.

When it comes to protecting yourself against breast cancer, knowledge is power. This toolkit covers everything from warning signs and the importance of early detection to what you can expect during a mammogram.

Telemedicine has the potential to deliver significant savings to both employees and businesses — when people actually use it. This toolkit includes posters, videos, mirror clings, and more to introduce your team to the service and encourage them to take advantage of it.

Here are a handful of healthy tips to help employees make wellness a part of their daily routine.

Regular trips to the dentist help keep employees and your business healthy. This handout provides your team with a little extra motivation to schedule that next appointment.

In the world of value-based healthcare, your data is the key to extracting the most actionable insights that provide real value to your organization. But getting to those insights can prove difficult, especially if you have to connect disparate data sources. You need transparency into key insights that can help your team make more informed decisions for the success of your organization. In this listicle, we explore five ways an analytics solution can help you transform your organization through the power of insight. From risk modeling to predictive analytics, utilizing the right mix of analytics can improve patient outcomes and ultimately move your organization closer to your ideal value-based care model

To address the volume, velocity, and variety of data necessary for population health management, healthcare organizations need a big data solution that can integrate with other technologies to optimize care management, care coordination, risk identification and stratification and patient engagement. Read this whitepaper and discover how to build a data infrastructure using the right combination of data sources, a “data lake” framework with massively parallel computing that expedites the answering of queries and the generation of reports to support care teams, analytic tools that identify care gaps and rising risk, predictive modeling, and effective screening mechanisms that quickly find relevant data. In addition to learning about these crucial tools for making your organization’s data infrastructure robust, scalable, and flexible, get valuable information about big data developments such as natural language processing and geographical information systems. Such tools can provide insig

Strong patient engagement leads to improved population health, a better experience of care, and lower healthcare costs. Even so, few healthcare organizations have a well-defined patient engagement strategy, according to research by IBM Watson Health. Read this whitepaper and learn why healthcare organizations should create a comprehensive patient engagement strategy, what each component of such a strategy entails and how to take the steps required to build an effective patient engagement program. From patient portals, telemedicine, and mobile health, to data sharing, automation tools and cognitive computing, you’ll gain the ability to leverage valuable tools for increasing patients’ involvement in their own health outcomes.

The shift to value-based care means that healthcare organizations should expand their concept of return on investment (ROI) to include the ability of solutions to increase efficiency and contain healthcare costs. Data analytics and automation capabilities have become important tools for providers aiming to maximize value-based payments. Learn from this whitepaper about the best ways for healthcare organizations to measure health IT ROI in the value-based environment, including specific examples of how certain providers are approaching this challenge.

The balance of power has shifted from brand owners to customers, and what people say about you online can either derail your business or accelerate its success. This is especially true for consumer-focused brands in industries such as retail, hospitality, automotive and healthcare This guide will help you understand the role of online reviews in overall brand health, and the tactics to maximize your online reputation.

Brand perception begins online, with the local online reputation of doctors, clinics and hospitals. In late 2017, Reputation.com set out to understand how consumers use the internet to look for healthcare services online, particularly when interacting with healthcare-related ratings and reviews. We surveyed healthcare consumers across the U.S. in a representative range of demographic groups for answers to some key questions: • What are consumers and patients really looking for in online reviews? • What ratings and review factors are most important when choosing a doctor? • What sites are most used and trusted for this information? Findings confirmed that online reviews are an essential part of the healthcare consumer’s decision-making. In this report, we’ll look at the key findings in detail

Speed is the hallmark of the digital age. E-commerce has grown by double-digits since 2010,¹ spurred by the expansion of quick delivery. The healthcare industry, buoyed by online diagnostic tools and patient analytics, has been experiencing record-breaking growth.² And on-demand online learning is experiencing its 13th consecutive year of growth.³ These trends are not unique. “Digital disruption” is no longer a futurist’s fantasy, it is happening now. Yet talent acquisition lags feebly behind. It takes an average of 43 days for a US company to fill an open position, up from 33 in 2010. That’s right- filling empty positions takes companies longer than ever before, in spite of technological progress. The pace of business is speeding up, but HR is actually slowing down. Nearly every major industry has leveraged digital transformation to their advantage and reaped massive rewards- why not HR?

HOW TO OVERCOME HEALTHCARE'S BIGGEST HIRING CHALLENGES Healthcare recruiting is intensely competitive. 60% of the fastest-growing occupations in the US are in healthcare, and it takes twice as long to fill a healthcare role than the national average. In this eBook, you’ll learn three approaches to solving healthcare recruiting’s toughest challenges. EXPECT TO LEARN: The 3 biggest challenges facing healthcare recruiting in 2018 (and how to solve them) Why it takes 2x as long to fill a healthcare role How to shrink hiring time without sacrificing quality of hire 4 ways to differentiate your organization from your competition Find out what the research says about these healthcare recruiting challenges and how you can overcome them in your organization. Download the free eBook now.

DermaTran Health Solutions is a national group of compounding pharmacies. Central to its operations is the Compounder application, which DermaTran needed to deploy multiple instances of simultaneously. When issues with its former app virtualization solution – XenApp – persisted, DermaTran evaluated alternatives, ultimately migrating to a turn-key cloud-based application publishing service.