healthIT

Health IT: Not Just For The Big Guys

by Nathan Lord December 13, 2011 Healthcare

Recently, our friends at Healthcare Technology Online released their “Community Hospital Health IT Road Map” edition containing great information specific to smaller market healthcare facilities. They kick it off with a letter from the editor, Ken Congdon, about the state of healthcare and how it affects everyone, not just the big healthcare facilities. Whether it’s [...]

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Mobile Devices in Healthcare: How is the money being spent?

by Nathan Lord November 17, 2011 Healthcare

Typically I like to track down a good infographic, or an article with a lot of graphs and pictures, because I’m a pretty visual learner (which is the professional way of saying I don’t like to read). So I pretty regularly go search the web for different healthcare topics trying to find something that dumbs [...]

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Improving Quality of Patient Care with Mobile Health Solutions

by Nathan Lord October 20, 2011 Healthcare

Recently, prior to our POS & Barcoding Partner Conference in Nashville, TN, we held a healthcare/government event to focus on some specific topics in these verticals. This gave our resellers an opportunity to check out some of the healthcare products that our vendor partners have to offer, as well as gain valuable information from some [...]

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Infographic: Digital Healthcare: Where are we now?

by Nathan Lord September 6, 2011 Healthcare

Recently, Iron Mountain Inc, a world leader in information management services, conducted a survey and generated a pretty interesting infographic about how 200 healthcare facilities are scanning paper patient records and what their plans are moving forward. Check out some of their findings.

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Infographic: Improving US Life Expectancy Through EMR Technology

by Nathan Lord July 19, 2011 Healthcare

The folks at Dell Healthcare recently pulled together some data and findings to give a picture of what the implementation of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) in the US could do. Pretty interesting stuff!

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6 Best Practices and Guidelines for a Successful Health IT Infrastructure

by Nathan Lord July 6, 2011 Healthcare
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So my “Source” partner in crime here that manages the Government Source program, Katherine Peery, sent me an article in Government Technology magazine that outlines the 12 elements of a successful health IT project. The article is by Kim Lamb, the executive director of the Oregon Health Network, a membership-based nonprofit organization building the first statewide [...]

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Taking the Fluff Out of the Cloud in Healthcare IT!

by Nathan Lord June 10, 2011 Healthcare

So I’ve got this stack of health IT magazines sitting on my desk from the last few months that I look at multiple times a week and say… I’ve really got to take a look through those things to see what I can learn. Considering how fast technology is moving these days, particularly in healthcare, if [...]

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Can We Really Eliminate Medical Errors Through Technology?

by Nathan Lord May 25, 2011 Healthcare
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Last week my daughter was complaining of stomach pains and issues. Typically, we would load her up with the pink stuff and be on our way. But things were back and forth in how she was feeling so we felt like we better take her to get it checked out. We went to the pediatrician [...]

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Cashing In as a Healthcare IT Service Provider or Managed Service Provider (MSP)

by Nathan Lord May 10, 2011 Healthcare

So, one of my co-workers and a fellow blog-mates here on The Source (Katharine Peery) shared a handy website with me for some “insider” info to SMB opportunities in the channel with some good healthcare content. Admittedly, since I’m one of the healthcare guys around here I’m a little ashamed I had to get this good [...]

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Help Save Lives by Educating Yourself on the Healthcare Industry

by Nathan Lord April 12, 2011 Healthcare

This morning I was heading to the break room to get my cup of ice for my daily cup of Joe, also known as Mountain Dew, when something on the TV caught my attention. Well, if I’m being honest, it was news about a certain basketball player’s mom being arrested for disorderly conduct and the [...]

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