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Analytics Versus Reporting: The Salient Differences

Put simply, the aim of reporting is to translate or convert data into information, enabling measurement of the performance of an entity relative to plan or target, or prior periods. Reporting done well often prompts end-users to raise questions about the business. The objective of analytics is to transform data and information into insights, answering the questions raised by reporting as well as other questions. Analytics does this by interpreting the data in a deeper way and providing actionable recommendations.

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Connecting Care Across the Healthcare Universe: Looking toward technology innovation and collaboration to achieve a healthier healthcare system

For the healthcare industry, technology has become both a panacea and a challenge. Technology is one of the proposed cures for out-of-control costs, limited access to quality care, and lack of coordination and collaboration across the healthcare system. However, some believe that the solutions being implemented today may actually be exacerbating the very problems healthcare is striving to solve. This white paper examines the key challenges facing the industry and looks at how existing and emerging technologies may be used to enhance or replace current technologies in order to address and solve for those challenges.

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Ensuring Proper Reimbursement for Hospital-administered Drugs

Hospitals fail to secure millions of dollars in revenue due to absent, incomplete and incorrect pharmaceutical data in their billing systems. Based on recent research and case studies, this paper explores the problems underlying pharmacy-based revenue leakage and presents an effective, affordable solution.

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Technology Convergence: The Key to Situational Awareness in Hospitals

Alarm management in hospitals is a big job because patient care and satisfaction is the No. 1 priority, but delivering point-of-care alerts to clinicians in an efficient manner can be frustrating and costly if existing alerting technologies are limited in their functionality and operate in siloes. In fact, most life safety, security and environmental systems operate independent of one another, resulting in duplicate alerting processes. Furthermore, staff often are required to go to the source to investigate the specifics of an alarm, increasing response time. To try to solve the alerting and communication challenges created by disparate systems, hospitals often make unnecessary investments in replacement systems. But a rip-and-replace strategy isn't an economical or necessary solution when most alarm and communication systems within a hospital can be integrated as part of a comprehensive situational awareness strategy. Then hospitals can sharpen their focus on patient care, reduce inefficiencies, and increase the ROI of their existing alarm and communication systems.

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Cancer Registry Workforce Shortage Still Mounting Fast as Demand Accelerates

Keeping an organizations' cancer registry department in good standing is becoming an increasingly complex challenge. The workforce of qualified cancer registry professionals is shrinking, at a time when demand and reporting backlogs are increasing. In order to solve these problems and maintain effective cancer registries, administrators must ACT: Acknowledge, Commit and Train.

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