Guide to interoperability for healthcare leaders
Healthcare leaders contend with many challenges. Controlling costs, responding to consumerism in the marketplace, staying ahead of changes and upgrades in healthcare technologies, and maintaining regulatory compliance are some of the concerns that keep leaders awake at night. Interoperability is a central element of all of these challenges.
Assessing the value of application managed services
Technology has the power to transform healthcare, but often technology challenges can feel more like barriers than enablers. As the number of patients and providers in an organization grows, maintaining a positive user experience and minimizing issue resolution times becomes increasingly challenging.
Better data and education will improve outcomes for LGBT2QIA+ patients
According to the most recent Gallup poll, 5.6% of American adults identify as LGBT2QIA+. The U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) has highlighted multiple social determinants that impact the health of the LGBT2QIA+ community, some relating to issues of discrimination by uninformed or intolerant providers. A simple internet search can tell a […]
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Our Mission Together: Healthcare and Digital Transformation in the UK
The modern UK healthcare system is facing challenges to meet the promise of fulfilling the needs of its people.
Standards-based technologies are key to healthcare interoperability wins
Recently, Nordic CMO Dr. Craig Joseph wrote an engaging piece on data interoperability entitled “You can’t always get what you want.” The central thesis is that adding functionality to the electronic health records (EHR) one app at a time is expensive, time consuming, and sub-optimal from a data strategy approach. Some of this is on […]
6 ways to stay cybersafe this year
Last year was quite the year for cybersecurity with what some have reported as a 50% increase in overall attacks per week on corporate networks. What is equally concerning is the dramatic increase in attacks focused on the remote workforce who are now accessing the corporate networks from home. With the average cost of a […]
Should doctors care about your address?
If there’s anything I like, it’s pushing the envelope a little. Not too much, mind you. Just the right amount. I think I did a good job with the title of this blog post. It’s a bit provocative, but I suspect I won’t get too much hate mail. It’s an odd question, really. Should your […]
Doing what’s right: Expert teams and engaging culture fuel Nordic’s continued growth
A culture is not invented. A culture constantly evolves…which is why it must be nurtured. – Simon Sinek
An ounce of prevention
Benjamin Franklin once said that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…”