TITLE: FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber Infrastructure Technology

The one constant with today's hospital-healthcare networks is IT change, as new demands are placed on the network and IT departments to respond quickly to the implementation of new high-bandwidth imaging equipment and services, wireless technologies, and the convergence of clinical, VOIP, and IT systems. Learn how Air-Blown Fiber answers these pressures with its contributions in advancing bandwidth and network capacity, compliance to ICRA and patient safety standards, and cost savings/ROI.

TITLE: Achieving HIPAA Compliance with Enterprise Single Sign-On

As part of complying with HIPAA, organizations are required to create mechanisms for controlling access to patient data that resides on the healthcare providers’ IT system. Some of the key challenges that health care organizations continue to face are cost, complexity and increased user frustration.

Organizations are finding that Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) solutions can help in overcoming these challenges while assisting to ensure a successful HIPAA audit.

TITLE: Driving Outcomes through Executive Collaboration

On July 25, 2008, thirteen senior-level hospital and healthcare executives convened during the Health Forum and the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit for a roundtable discussion entitled "Driving Outcomes through Executive Collaboration."

Sponsored by ARAMARK Healthcare, the purpose of the session was to examine the vital connection between collaboration at the executive level in a hospital setting and improved patient outcomes. The session focused on key attributes of executive collaboration as well as other institutional factors to drive improved patient satisfaction, safety and quality care.

TITLE: NEC Display Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

When considering switching over to a digital signage system, many questions arise in the brainstorming process. This white paper identifies those qualifying questions and discusses the benefits of a digital signage system in a medical environment, the initial concerns when considering such a system and the various solutions available for healthcare facilities.

TITLE: Efficient Use of Space and Reductions in Workers Comp Costs

With so much focus on increasing revenues though use of IT and software designed to capture previously lost revenues, quick and easy opportunities to also cut costs are sometimes being overlooked. Opportunities for almost immediate cost recovery are presented in new technologies for increasing storage capacity and for reducing worker injury and the related costs though use of innovative powered equipment.

TITLE: Siemens explores the advantages of having information accessible across the care continuum

Healthcare is an incredibly complex industry, and government and healthcare organizations alike recognize the benefits clinical information systems can deliver to patients, medical providers, and the healthcare system itself. The national push for a connected, interoperable system that expedites the exchange of electronic health records between ambulatory and acute-care facilities and consumers will help drive improvements in patient safety, the quality of care delivery, and financial performance across the care continuum. Siemens is already delivering interoperable acute/ambulatory healthcare information systems, and we are working through industry citizenship to help develop standards that will further enable interoperability across care entities with systems of all kinds.