HealthTechnica

Archives for November, 2008

Take another look at your application’s strengths – Shawn Riley

Take another look at your application base’s strengths One of the most common potential savings most medical systems have is in their already installed application base. Over and over organizations purchase application suites with a very [+]

Refocus on Performance Improvement – Shawn Riley

Refocus on performance improvement (process) Clinical processes are some of the most complex processes in the world today. They may seem extremely daunting and even impossible to streamline. However, a savvy IT professional can save the [+]

Bandwidth Management for cost reductions – Shawn Riley

Bandwidth Management WAN costs are always a large chunk of a CIO’s annual operating budget. WAN requirements will only get worse for hospitals and medical centers as we implement more technology. EMRs, PACS, tele-medicine, e-patient, and [+]

Saving Money During the 2008/9/10 recession – Demand Management

Health care has long been an industry thought to be recession proof. In the recession of 2008+ we are finding that thought to be false. Charity care applications have risen substantially, overall volumes and service [+]

Please give your opinion on ICD-10

What do you think about the new ICD-10 codes?  What are your concerns?  What are your hopes?  Do you feel America is lagging behind Europe in this category?  What do you recommend? [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Reliability

Reliability - When it comes to healthcare, the primary focus of any patient data is that the information is both available and accurate at all times. Some businesses can afford downtime, even for long periods, but [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Security

Security Even before the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed in 1996 the confidentiality of patient data had a high priority. Patient records were private and policies covering patient data restricted access to them to [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Versatility

Versatility The Versatility of a database is dependent on several factors; Scalability, Interoperability and Usability. Client/Server databases, normally, can be scaled, that is, you can design your system to allow for extreme growth in the number of users, and [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Longevity

Longevity Many people I work with do not like changing their routine, this is nothing new, but what makes the healthcare industry different is that there seems to be no pressure on the business itself to [+]

Minnesota Administrative Simplification Act

The Minnesota Department of Health's implementation of the 1994 Health Care Administrative Simpli?cation Act will allow them to standardize the billing cycle though out Minnesota. Beginning at veri?cation and ending in remittance this process has the potential of [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Performance

Performance Normally Performance would be the primary concern for most business applications that use databases.  After all application performance was one of the necessities that brought about the development of some databases.  There are some higher [+]

Database Considerations for Health Care – Maintainability

Maintainability Unless you have worked in an environment where Software Engineering accounts for a large portion of the Services or Sales, maintainability, in my opinion, does not get enough attention.  It may not be at the [+]

Project Mangement – Teresa Lemmer

Project Management is old hat for most industries. However, in health care it can be pretty new to even some very large organizations. There are lots of benefits to having a fully developed PM system. Just make sure [+]
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