Because of cost restrictions and burdened healthcare systems, daily monitoring of patients with diseases has been nearly impossible. Seeking a solution, UHN and Mount Sinai Hospital conducted a 33-patient trial and found BlackBerry smartphones could increase patient involvement in their healthcare without adding pressure to the healthcare system. 

When outdated equipment and disparate systems were hampering in-house communications, customer service, and workflow, Indiana University Medical Group turned to CDW for a three-part Cisco solution. This case study gives details on the benefits they gained. 

Frequently, organizations that operate contact centers are faced with the challenge of working with inadequate telephony equipment. Frustrations range from having to get a few more years out of telephone equipment to having disparate systems. Read this white paper to learn about how contact centers can resolve these telecommunications complexities. 

The CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) is in the process of updating their standards and suggested practices. They are going to be more strict with medical device developers. The purpose of this paper is to present the medical device developer guidelines for complying with the "suggestions" of the CDRH. 

The FACTS MANAGED CARE SUITE provides a full range of reports to help you manage your organization, design plan requirements, and control and monitor costs. 

FACTS® CLAIMS & ENCOUNTERS™ is a fully automated, real-time processing system for complete, online adjudication of medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, disability and COBRA claims and encounters. 

Read this paper to learn about options for deploying and managing a home-based agent model with the ultimate goal being increased customer loyalty. As the key driver in this model, other cumulative benefits result: higher agent productivity, reduced attrition, lower operational costs, stronger business continuity, and more. 

FACTS EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is an industry compliant, electronic data interchange system that allows for the high-speed transaction processing of health information between the FACTS Systems and your trading partners. 

FACTS ADMIN is a fully automated, real-time policy administration system - with support for membership enrollment and eligibility management, premium administration, accounts payable, and administration of broker commissions. 

This e-book presents healthcare specific networking issues such as the importance of networks within a hospital, wireless networking for life-critical networks, the future of health care networks, and more. 

Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Brad Blake, IT Director at Boston Medical Center, presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference. 

In a typical healthcare organization, hundreds to thousands of medical and support staff need to access patient data to do their job. How do you effectively enforce access controls to hospital information systems without hampering medical care efficiency and effectiveness? Read this paper and learn how. 

The federal government's push for electronic healthcare records has made data security even more pressing. This eBook takes a look at where healthcare IT leaders should begin and what they should watch out for as they move to embrace the HITECH Act and other initiatives. Read on to learn more.