Health Care Industry Reports

EBOOK: Business intelligence (BI) and data analytics are pushing into health care – and for good reason.  Clinical data can be analyzed to improve patient care and track trends for medical research.  In this expert e-book, gain insight on the benefits of BI from your peers at Maine Medical Center, Scottsdale Health care and Saint Elizabeth Health Care.

Posted: 04 May 2011 | Published: 04 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript from CDW Healthcare looks at a presentation given by Bob Rossi, VP of CDW Healthcare, which focuses on the distinct advantages server virtualization can bring to your medical environment today. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 12 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: As of Oct. 1, 2015, U.S. health care providers must use ICD-10 codes when they submit medical claims. This FAQ e-guide addresses what the transition means, advantages of using ICD-10, as well as best practices on how providers can prepare and succeed in an ICD 10 conversion.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

EBOOK: The Goal of clinical decision support (CDS) - a Business Intelligence tool specific to health care - is to give physicians and nurses the granular information they need to make treatment decisions at the time they need it. Read this paper and learn how to develop a data analytics system that works for your health care environment.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: Many enterprises have embraced virtualized disaster recovery because it restores functions with minimal hardware. Health care orgs can do this too, if they keep HIPAA in mind. Check out this e-guide for more information about planning your virtualized disaster recovery in a health care setting.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: This month’s Information Security Magazine Online cover story dissects the recent HIPAA revisions made by the HITECH Act.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Health care organizations across the country are migrating toward automated systems in an effort to operate more efficiently and improve quality. The push to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) has grabbed significant attention from health care leaders as well as the media and government. Read this white paper now to learn more!

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

EBOOK: Implementing a wireless network in a hospital allows physicians to use state-of-the-art equipment. But there are security, infrastructure and connectivity obstacles to overcome. Read this CDW Healthcare e-book to learn how these obstacles can be eliminated.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

EBOOK: This e-book from CDW Corporation focuses on the successful integration of electronic health records (EHRs) by both large hospitals and small practices alike. It looks at the ways in which organizations can deploy and manage an EHR infrastructure system and the advantages this type of system can bring. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

WEBCAST: Learn about Memorial Healthcare’s latest approach to ensure that its clinicians have fast and secure access to critical patient information. You will learn about secure “follow me” desktops to provide doctors and nurses with patient information at their fingertips - from any workstation or personal device.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Premiered: Jan 27, 2011, 13:00 EST (18:00 GMT)

BOOK: The exciting world of PACS in Healthcare IT is ever-changing and can be confusing, but the rewards are immense once these new technologies are implemented. Check out this informative E-book to learn more about emerging technologies like PACS storage needs, image exchange, and transforming your workstations into imaging hubs.

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 | Published: 29 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Check out this e-guide for a chart that outlines the proposed criteria for Stage 1 of demonstrating meaningful use of EHR. Eligible hospitals and doctors who want to qualify for payment incentives through the health IT provisions of the ARRA must meet these criteria.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The list of features in medical devices is rapidly rising: Even the simplest of medical devices house more and more system components, which add greater functionality to the device at a low cost. But by adding components, device software becomes complex and burdens compliance testing and premarket certification activities.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: This paper examines how health care CIOs are burdened by small data centers that are difficult to expand, yet they need to accommodate growing amounts of data. Virtualization may be the answer.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

EBOOK: Implementing a wireless network in a hospital allows physicians to use state-of-the-art equipment. However, there are security, infrastructure, and connectivity obstacles to overcome. Check out this e-book to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Care management programs need to reach across organizational boundaries. In this presentation transcript, HP, MicroStrategy and Informatica present their joint approach to solving your organization’s care management challenges.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

EBOOK: BI  and data analytics are pushing into health care, but the industry as a whole is still behind the adoption curve of other vertical markets. This e-book will give you the information you need to make the most of BI and data analytics. Read on to learn about BI trends in health care and how to take advantage of them to give you the upper hand.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: This paper describes how hospitals have all partnered with CDW Healthcare to help them navigate the complexities of software licensing and deployment, as well as maximize the effectiveness of their investment and resources. Read on to learn the benefits these three organizations experienced with CDW Healthcare.

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 | Published: 29 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at how healthcare providers are using wireless LANs creatively to improve patient care and to realize much-needed cost efficiencies. It also discusses the primary challenges health organizations face in their deployments and offers up solutions for successfully addressing them.

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

CASE STUDY: After investing close to two years developing nursing documentation software, The Nebraska Medical Center stood poised to begin implementing this lynchpin of its patient safety focus. But first, it had to identify the right hardware solutions for its requirements. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

CASE STUDY: Building a brand new, state-of-the-art medical campus from the ground up requires an I.T. infrastructure capable of supporting newer, more advanced healthcare applications and the massive volumes of digital data generated by these systems. Read this white paper to learn how CDW Healthcare helped a Michigan medical campus to accomplish their goals.

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

EBOOK: As health care providers collect increasing amounts of patient data, the burden on IT infrastructure only worsens. This SearchHealthIT.com e-book discusses server consolidation in a health care setting, moving apps and servers to virtualized platforms, desktop virtualization for health care, best practices for server virtualization, and more!

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

CASE STUDY: Boston Medical Center (BMC) needed to find ways to lower its operational costs to work within smaller budgets despite exploding data volumes, a sprawling server farm and 6,000 desktop users who needed access to clinical applications for patient care. The hospital pursued a data center virtualization strategy after partnering with Dell.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Dell helped BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York harness blades to shrink its data center footprint by 75 percent and improve efficiency by more than 50 percent.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The latest edition of the Application Usage and Risk Report (Spring 2010) covers a sample size that has grown more than 15 fold to 347 and is truly global. Since the Spring 2008 Report, the number of applications Palo Alto Networks identifies has grown to nearly 1,000 with nearly 750 of them found during the six month period.

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010