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Physicians and their patients, medical policy makers and licensing boards, pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies all must work together to stem the opioid epidemic and achieve the fundamental objectives of reducing addiction and deaths. With so many players and data sources, today’s information is partial, fragmented, and often not actionable. We don’t have the data to understand what’s happening, to adjust policy, and to motivate physicians and patients to change their behaviors. Better data and analytics can help develop better treatment protocols, both for pain in the first place and for remediation when patients are becoming dependent on the drugs.

A healthcare facility must ensure a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, staff, physicians and suppliers on a 24/7 basis.

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Phoenix Children’s CISO, Daniel Shuler, and its IT security team are responsible for protecting 5,000 endpoints in the hospital and across more than 20 clinics in the region. Endpoints include physician and staff laptops and desktops, nursing stations, servers, Windows-based clinical devices, credit card payment processors, and point-of-sale terminals. These endpoints are used to store and/or process personal health information (PHI), and payment and credit card information. They must comply with HIPAA for PHI and voluntarily comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) for credit card data. The IT security team’s existing industry-leading AV solution claimed to provide visibility into malicious activity aimed at the endpoints. It continuously reported all endpoints were safe, sound, and secure. This caused Daniel to be suspicious. He knew from experience that such low levels of endpoint malicious activity was highly unlikely. Read the full case study to learn about the results Cylance was able to deliver.

Opioid use grabs headlines when important celebrities overdose. Prince is sadly the most recent. But the problem is persistent and pervasive. The marginally good news is that the number of opioid prescriptions written started to decline last year. Overdose deaths, however, continued to rise. Also in the news have been lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and distributors for helping to create the astounding oversupply of opioids, but the root causes go deeper. Physicians and their patients, medical policy makers and licensing boards, pharma companies and pharmacies all have played roles. And all must work together to stem the opioid epidemic and achieve the fundamental objectives of reducing addiction and deaths.

Dr. Scott Boden, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center, has a deep understanding of what it takes to run a successful medical practice that provides optimal patient care in today’s complex health care environment. A lauded physician and researcher–he discovered a gene that triggers human bone growth–Dr.Boden gained this insight while treating thousands of patients each year. Creating a highly efficient, consistent, and cost-effective way to evaluate and treat patients is, according to Dr. Boden, central to success. He also places a high priority on gathering comprehensive data on patient outcomes, while easing the burden of medical documentation.

In 2010, Queens Pediatrics began evaluating Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions to improve access to patient records. The practice’s affiliation with North Shore LIJ prompted it to evaluate solutions from Allscripts. North Shore LIJ is the largest user of Allscripts system and provides a financial subsidy to its affiliated practices that adopt the solutions. The challenge for Queens Pediatrics was the small size of its offices, which didn’t provide enough room for multiple workstations or to move mobile computer carts through the hallways. “There were only two options. The physicians either had to use a laptop or we had to have a PC in each room, and that doesn’t work well in a pediatric office,” said Janette Finn, the Practice Manager at Queens Pediatrics. Download this Case Study to find out the Solution to the challenges Queens Pediatrics faced.

There is a lot of discussion in the press about Big Data. Big Data is traditionally defined in terms of the three V’s of Volume, Velocity, and Variety. In other words, Big Data is often characterized as high-volume, streaming, and including semi-structured and unstructured formats. Healthcare organizations have produced enormous volumes of unstructured data, such as the notes by physicians and nurses in electronic medical records (EMRs). In addition, healthcare organizations produce streaming data, such as from patient monitoring devices. Now, thanks to emerging technologies such as Hadoop and streams, healthcare organizations are in a position to harness this Big Data to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. However, this Big Data has profound implications from an Information Governance perspective. In this white paper, we discuss Big Data Governance from the standpoint of three case studies.

When it comes to IT risk, most people think in terms of disaster recovery and protecting critical patient data in the event of a natural disaster like a hurricane or an earthquake.

MGMA Connexion™ magazine is the medical group practice professional's power resource. This popular magazine is filled with insight from peers, advice from experts and timely information on a variety of cutting-edge healthcare industry topics. MGMA Connexion™ magazine ranks as the "must-read" magazine for nearly 23,000 Medical Group Management (MGMA) members. MGMA's flagship publication is distributed ten times per year with a circulation well beyond the nearly 23,000 readers. About 50% or readers report the MGMA that they pass the issues on to other readers. This sample issue includes trend stories and member case studies, providing you a behind-the-scenes perspective on the group practice industry.

In this highly informative piece, authors Cynthia L. Dunn, RN, FACMPE and Rosemarie Nelson, MS, healthcare industry leading experts and principal consultants for the MGMA Health Care Consulting Group (www.mgma.com/consulting) have composed an in-depth look at the medical practice of the future that will allow you to learn about the following.

Download the solution brief to learn more about protecting your organization’s enterprise data.

View to this webcast and learn how Memorial Health System, a 500-bed hospital system in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has recently implemented a portal strategy based on IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management that allows them to quickly and securely provide online capabilities for their external and internal user constituencies.

This white paper presents a solution framework for Life Science Organizations that want to implement enterprise digital trust management to protect their electronic value chain.

Healthcare Management Solutions (HMS) is an industry leader in outsourced revenue cycle management for hundreds of healthcare industry clients. Its client base includes large for-profit and not-for-profit integrated healthcare delivery networks, stand-alone hospitals of all sizes, physician groups and managed care organizations of all types.

This single physician practice started with the need to increase efficiency and practice better care. After implementing Allscripts technology, the practice exponentially improved population health management, achieved Meaningful Use, cut two months out of their billing process—all while saving $65,000 annually.

Download this case study to learn how Family Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana increased revenue, patient visits and attained incentives with Allscripts.

See how Allscripts Professional EHR™ is helping Choice Medical Group raise its standards of care to an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) level, with analytics, patient engagement and an open framework. Choice Medical Group is an Independent Physicians Association with 40 independent physicians spread across a 70-mile radius in the high desert. This organization must coordinate care with an additional 120 specialists and deliver quality care to an extremely rural population. Allscripts Professional EHR™ is helping the Association raise its standards of care to an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) level, with analytics, patient engagement and an open framework, ensuring that geographic distance does not limit quality care availability.

Learn more about HP Business Protection, which includes components that improve reliability, disaster recovery and overall systems management, help physician practices manage IT risk, improve services and protect their business.

Hospitals today are responsible for much more than providing direct patient care including disease management, regulatory compliance with JCAHO, HITECH and HIPAA, and physician interoperability.

IBM BigInsights is ready to help Quest Diagnostics Inc. ingest, normalize and analyze huge data-sets, delivering new insight into clinical outcomes for physicians, hospitals, and millions of patients.

When call center agents don’t have access to an EMR, consumer demographic, sociological and other data, nor an understanding of marketing campaigns, agents are inefficient, reactive and unable to personalize interactions with patients and consumers. The disjointed call center experience harms the health system’s ability to find, guide, and keep patients for life. The call center is often the first touch for many prospective healthcare customers, and Scripps Health recognized these challenges. They made the pivot from call center as cost center to strategic lynch pin in their patient experience strategy. Call center agents are now delivering a world-class patient experience as they provide physician referrals, take class registrations, and serve as a clearing house for general information . An added bonus of the shift is they can now integrate outbound calling into campaign efforts, and measure the full impact of marketing efforts and strengthen marketing’s ROI. Get your free copy of

Technology has had a truly transformative impact on the healthcare space. Thanks to innovations in technology, tools and their respective processes, the practice of treating patients has shifted from mostly reactive to proactive, enabling physicians and caregivers to approach healthcare in a more holistic fashion. As part of that shift, hospitals, wellness centers and physicians’ offices are focusing on providing value over volume1, taking healthcare beyond the four walls of the facility and into patients’ homes, places of work and social centers. The concept of whole health is much easier to attain with technology such as artificial intelligence, analytics, wearables and mobile health (mHealth) apps, to name a few.