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Focus on your core business by outsourcing your IT

Chief Information Officer (CIO) Denis Tanguay’s workload has quadrupled over the past few years, and he has been struggling to stay on top ensuring that systems are secure and available when his employees need it. How did he overcome these struggles? He found a solution in outsourcing. As the CIO for Central Maine Healthcare explained… Continue reading Focus on your core business by outsourcing your IT

Do you have a business-intelligence system?

More than half of health-care organizations have not implemented business-intelligence systems, according to a survey, and that could hurt their bottom lines. Business intelligence is the transformation of raw data into useful information for business purposes. It shows you what’s going on in your practice and how your practice could improve. According to the survey… Continue reading Do you have a business-intelligence system?

Why you need an expert concierge

Are you burning the candle at both ends when it comes to managing your medical practice? Consider partnering with a business process expert. While you’re busy caring for patients, we can be busy ensuring that your practice is productive and profitable. A business process expert such as gloStream, who offers gloCierge, can be viewed as… Continue reading Why you need an expert concierge

Meaningful-use incentives top $19 billion

More and more health-care providers are going digital, if meaningful-use reimbursements are any indication. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is reporting that it has disbursed more than $19 billion in reimbursement incentives. That’s in keeping with a September 2012 prediction from the former national coordinator for health information technology, who said the… Continue reading Meaningful-use incentives top $19 billion

The storage conundrum

The move to digital technology is saving time and reducing errors, but it’s also creating an unprecedented amount of data that must be stored. According to a BridgeHead Software survey, the health-care industry generates almost a third of the world’s data, which it says “increases day after day.” While the majority of respondents to the… Continue reading The storage conundrum

Health-care technology market set to expand in 2014

The North American health-care information technology (IT) market will grow from $21.9 billion in 2012 to $31.3 billion by 2017, a compound annual rate of 7.4%. That forecast comes from Research and Markets’ North American Healthcare IT Market Report 2013-2017, and is based on a number of factors. Financial support from the U.S. government is… Continue reading Health-care technology market set to expand in 2014

Meaningful use has been good business – but not perfect

In the early 2000s – even into the current decade – health care had some catching up to do when it came to technology. Much of the industry was paper-based and when technology was used, it was often in separate areas, creating silos of information that couldn’t communicate. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act… Continue reading Meaningful use has been good business – but not perfect

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