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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.

Under the leadership of Stephen Arndt, consulting CIO, Medicalodges – a Kansas-based post-acute healthcare company – was looking to transition away from maintaining its own hardware on premises and needed a partner to help its small IT team maintain and monitor its data center infrastructure. As a healthcare services provider, Medicalodges is subject to HIPAA regulation. In order to maintain compliance, the company required a solution with inherent business continuity and redundancy.

Is your HR department equipped to handle the Health Care Reform Changes? NuView is the only vendor that offers this level of flexibility and configurability designed to help you adapt to the healthcare reform changes. Download to see the changes and timeline for important issues planned during each calendar year.

Healthcare organizations are a favorite target for determined attackers. Any disruption to critical services provides a strong incentive to pay a ransom and patient medical data is highly lucrative for the information it contains. Research finds that providers have traditionally under invested in IT security, which further compounds the problem. Read the report to learn: • Important cyber security risks • The impact of a data breach to your organization • Key regulations around the globe

Regulatory fines for violations of HIPAA in the US, DPA in the UK and GDPR can cost organizations millions of dollars. And providers can’t afford the costs of cyber security incidents which can range from prolonged downtime, not being able to care for patients, to paying a ransom to unencrypt important data. Learn the biggest threats to your organization and how to improve protection against: • Ransomware such as WannaCry and Petya • Malicious URLs that entice users to click • Bad Attachments that can infect your network • Business email compromise that siphons information or cash from your organization • Internal employees and the potential for malicious intent or careless mistakes

Is your healthcare organization part of the 90% that conducts annual cybersecurity assessments?* Do you wonder where your IT peers are headed with their cybersecurity plans and how they prioritize their initiatives? Recent HIMSS survey results reveal these insights and more, plus the 5 steps to improve your email security’s prognosis. This E-book contains startling facts and important cybersecurity insights every healthcare IT security leader needs to know. *HIMSS Analytics survey conducted on behalf of Mimecast, December 2017

The NHS is currently evolving to meet the needs of an ageing population. This means that not only is the delivery of clinical care more challenging in the acute hospital set- ting but it increasingly relies on enhanced information access in the primary care, mental health and community environments too.

Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. Legal requirements, an aging population in many developed countries, and an ever-increasing need to be service-oriented are forcing hospitals to do more with less. Those that learn to effectively harness the information generated by their IT systems will enjoy substantial productivity improvements.

Ambrose Co-CEO, Greg Slamowitz provides a comprehensive explanation of challenges in the health care system and the recent health care reform legislation. The presentation focuses on the topics that matter most to small business leaders: reasons for change, mandates for individual and employer coverage, tax implications and more.

Learn to escape the chaos of regulatory compliance with Integrated IT Portfolio Management. This eBook for healthcare IT executive shares how to gain greater visibility into the delivery and execution of complex projects such as implementing EHR implementation, ICD-10 compliance efforts and the Affordable Care Act.

This paper will explore the current environment of growth in healthcare IT and the emergence of mobile devices as enablers of this growth.

To prepare for value-based care models, Mercy Health System uses interoperable solutions to attest for Meaningful Use, implement 24 ACO clinical quality measures in three months, and achieve PCMH Level 2 Certification in eight sites. With a healthy EHR core, Mercy is prepared for future growth.

Healthcare organizations are integrating intelligent virtual assistants to enhance online experience and reduce costs. This guide overviews the capabilities and benefits of using virtual assistants to engage, optimize, and complement existing service channels.

This guide reviews market drivers which are spurring innovation in benefits self-service and enrollment as well as wellness engagement. In addition, it overviews the main capabilities of the leading virtual assistant solution, CIVA benefits advisor.

This guide reviews some market drivers which are spurring innovation in patient engagement and wellness participation. In addition, it overviews the main capabilities of the leading virtual assistant solution, CIVA health adviser.

The Internet of Things offers countless opportunities to grow your business, increase recurring revenue, and retain satisfied customers for longer periods of time. If you can measure it, you can monetize it. And when you combine the vast amounts of big data available with the IoT, there are endless opportunities ($14.4 trillion worth!) for monetization across all industries and functions—from healthcare to B2B to automotive and nearly everything in between. The following articles will help you maximize and monetize the Internet of Things.