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Healthcare & Life Sciences 3 Steps Towards Preparing for a Provider Rating System
There has been a lot of dialogue lately regarding CMS’s potential expansion of a star rating system to providers. Not surprisingly, it is being rather heavily opposed. The difficulty with such a system whether a star, or any other indicator, is ensuring the rating actually measures what it is...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences How to get the most out of Dreamforce for Healthcare
If you are an active member of the Salesforce community, or even passive in this case, you know about Dreamforce. The annual event in San Francisco in which more than 100,000 people come together to discuss, hack, share, present, develop all things Salesforce. There might also be...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Turning Intranets Social for Healthcare
One of the many complexities of Healthcare is balancing priorities to achieve business goals. How to treat patients as patients, not customers? How to meet technical, business, and clinical needs all at the same time? How to achieve provider and patient engagement? How to deliver a higher...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences VCs are investing heavily in Healthcare
$6.4 billion. That’s the amount of funding that VCs pumped into Healthcare in 2013 according to CB insights. Granted, 67% of that funding went to Medical Devices, Drug Development, and Biotech. Still, that leaves a lot of money for the other segments. Investing in Healthcare is becoming...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Seizing the Opportunity for Transformative Change in Healthcare
As individuals, we all have that issue, topic, or subject that truly drives us. In most instances, this is an item unrelated to your career and thus requires the unique balance of one’s professional and personal life. However, if you are lucky enough to operate in an environment where these...
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Client News Silverline helps Michigan Health Information Network put the care back into healthcare with Salesforce
Improving healthcare and reducing costs is on everyone’s minds these days. But how? Learn how MiHIN made it easier for the state’s healthcare professionals to get the information they need when they need it to eliminate inefficiencies and improve care.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences 7 Tips to Create an Awesome Wellness Program
As wellness becomes a more formal staple within the Healthcare landscape, and business environment, we are hearing from clients and participants of wellness programs about the components that would truly enhance their experience. Given our role as a cloud solution company, we then start thinking...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Are Mobile Applications Useful in Healthcare?
I am not an avid Apple product user, but the line “there’s an app for that” (which I believe they ultimately trademarked) holds true in most circumstances. Recently, it seems that new apps with the most publicity do not solely focus on novel solutions to problems, instead they...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences The Virtual Water Cooler
Technology has a unique ability to replace the most classic items, even within the kitchen of your office. How many offices still maintain a standard coffee brewer? Not many I’m sure. It is not because the classic brewer (from entry level to gourmet) is inherently flawed; it’s because...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences HOW TECHNOLOGY COULD SOLVE VA HEALTHCARE ISSUES
Every news channel is covering the issues that were revealed at the VA – boil it all down, there appears to have been secret “wait-lists” that masked the amount of time Vets waited to receive care so that the numbers looked better. This has potentially led to deaths, misdiagnoses,...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Healthcare Companies are now Technology Companies – Really.
In order to maintain a competitive advantage in the constantly evolving healthcare market, many organizations are investing in technology platforms that give them scalability to offer better tools, apps, and services. Even more intriguing is that these same organizations are diversifying their...
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Leverage the Cloud for Unique, Impactful Solutions in Healthcare
According to an article on CIO.com entitled “Healthcare finally warming to the Cloud”, which references Imprivata’s 2013 Desktop Virtualization Trends in Healthcare Report, it notates that only 30% of respondents were using the cloud. That’s a 21% increase over the prior...
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