excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Wang healthcare initiative eases pain for phy... Summary: Wang healthcare initiative. Bruce Ryan, president of Wang Healthcare Information Systems, told IW that the company has worked on the healthcare enhancements for 18 months and has developed a new product browser. Marion McFarland, president and CEO of UCI Medical (Columbia, SC), says that he is optimistic about the use of Physicians' Workstation in his medical facility. UCI Medical staff have... 89% Application integration: An essential ingredient Summary: Additionally, there is a host of clinical data management applications that also merits tight integration. To be truly effective, workflow must be fully integrated with the system and its applications. In addition to having workflow integrated with the application, the workflow product should also be fully integrated with the database as well. Integrated workflow does not mean that the workflow... 89% Integration: The key to image management Summary: "Without the integration with our HIS applications, we could not realize the tremendous cost savings and gains in productivity that we have. How an imaging system is implemented can be as important as the functionality itself. Third, the productivity gains and cost savings can easily justify the implementation costs. After gaining experience in patient accounting, most healthcare organizations... 89% Improved patient care through document imaging Summary: The patient records are available wherever they are needed, with access through workstations on a LAN. Accordingly, it is very important to have an efficient means of entering paper documents into the electronic records system. The images still retain the familiar format of charts and records." The system is being deployed on a LAN throughout the hospital. With document images, the physician has... 88% Wang takes a Vantage Summary: Wang takes a Vantage. Wang's Service Business Unit will continue to partner with PC Docs, providing services to DOCS Open software customers. But everyone thought it would be PC Docs." "Wang got the technology they were after," said Frappaolo, "and they got a vendor strong in the standards arena." Standards-based Wang is committed to open architecture. 88% Healthcare's top priority: Developing an effective information strategy Summary: Developing an effective information strategy. The competitive landscape of healthcare delivery and management is altered forever. The pace of information technology change has also quickened. But these cannot simply be one-time reductions. They do take time. 88% Information warehousing Summary: .. how many acronyms can we assign to healthcare information technology? None of these systems alone can provide the information required for a complete computerized patient record. In a capitated environment, this can be very expensive for the provider. The warehouse can allow access to all information by integrating current and historical patient information, regardless of where it is stored,... 87% Knowledge-based processes depend on workflow Summary: Workflow Systems. * Document management: The document management system must have broad capabilities to collect, organize and present information easily and quickly. NHIN then routes them to as many reviewers as necessary for the appropriate authorizations. NHIN's services help its subscribers improve the workflow of their knowledge-based processes. Effective document management is crucial... 87% Image-enabling the healthcare enterprise Summary: Central data repositories and imaging. However, these repositories are limited to structured electronic data, i.e., letters and numbers. A closer look at central data repositories. They can also store and retrieve the images and other data on optical storage media. With these facts in mind, many hospitals are looking to integrate their central data repositories with imaging systems. 86% Enterprisewide solution for integrated delivery Summary: By E. Andrew Mayo, Executive Vice President, MedPlus Inc. Medical records and the associated medical records information system (MRIS) must be the source for the "legal" medical record. Architecture for an enterprisewide patient record system.) * Encrypted digitized signature: A signature password verifies the user's signature authority. E. Andrew Mayo is Executive VP of MedPlus Inc. 86% Good Medicine Summary: Competition is intense yet contradictory. Yet both are vital to effective use of information for patient care. Scanning will always be required to some degree. The ability to distribute information across multiple facilities is becoming key to an organization's ability to maintain a competitive edge. The ability to secure information, yet keep it accessible, is a tremendous challenge. 85% Wang is no lame duck Although the presence of ... Summary: Imaging World, March 17th, 1997. Wang is no lame duck. Although the presence of Kodak is expected to be felt at AIIM, Wang's software unit will still be owned by Wang and could have a hard time not coming off as a lame duck, given the impending acquisition by Kodak. At any rate, Wang will be demonstrating its newly released Imaging for Windows Professional Edition as well as its other imaging... 85% Network scanners reduce paper-based inefficiency Summary: August, 1996 Network scanners reduce paper-based inefficiency. This labor-intensive process was one of many administrative inefficiencies rooted in the hospital's reliance on paper. This process would allow hospital staff to efficiently store, share and distribute information electronically over the hospital network. What is a network scanner?. The network scanner allows users to bridge the... 85% After imaging, doctors will "never go back" Summary: After imaging, doctors will "never go back". A doctor can be at home or on vacation and use his or her laptop to retrieve a patient record if the need arises. The cardiology practice has invested $95,000 in the document imaging system. Currently, there are about 100,000 documents in Arkansas Cardiology's document imaging system. Remote access to patient records from the hospital also benefits... 85% Workflow's unique contribution to healthcare Summary: software. However, it has been difficult to produce flexible applications in the mainframe environment that can handle the creation and management of knowledge found in patient care or real-time decision making.. Workflow software accelerates organ transplant matching. The organ transplant matching process has many requirements that are well suited for workflow software such as Lotus Notes. The... 82% Tucci says no to Novell Summary: Tucci says no to Novell. Wang (Billerica, MA) CEO Joseph Tucci was handed an $8 million thank you note from his board of directors following the $260 million sale of Wang's software unit to Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY). Under the premise of a "retention bonus" because Tucci declined an offer to head Novell (Orem, UT), Wang acknowledges Tucci's role in the recent divestiture. Analysts speculate... 81% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 79% Medical Records Institute hosts Opryland confer Summary: Imaging World, April 7th, 1997. Medical Records Institute hosts Opryland conference. The Medical Records Institute (Newton, MA) hosts an annual conference spotlighting electronic patient records that promote electronic health records as part of a patient information system. The "Thirteenth International Symposium on the Creation of Electronic Health Record Systems and Global Conference on... 76% Stanford Health Services moves to electronic p... Summary: Stanford Health Services moves to electronic patient records. Therefore, SHS realized it needed authorization from its review organization much earlier in the patient care process to ensure payment. The primary challenge at SHS was to re-engineer the records management process so that patient information could be entered as it became available at locations distributed throughout the facility.... 75% Document capture for the healthcare enterprise Summary: ) customizable; (2. 1. Customizable. Effective document capture solutions must be customizable in the following ways: * Technology. To be truly customizable, the document capture system must be open. Features should include: * Customizable capture process.
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