- 11 April 2012: New Health IT Survey Report Shows Key Industry Findings – New health IT survey report was based on a January survey of 288 healthcare professionals ranging from senior IT managers and their staff to medical and clinical professionals. Respondents were chosen from healthcare institutions of all sizes. The diverse sample offered a unique insight into the current state of the healthcare IT marketplace and the internal and external drivers that allow some healthcare institutions to keep up with new regulations and IT solutions, and prohibit others from doing so.
- 6 April 2012: Fax Machine Smudge Nearly Ruins Golfer at The Masters! – Fax machine errors cost people a lot of money every year. Today in Augusta, a fax machine error almost cost Luke Donald a chance to win The Masters! Due to a smudge on the fax paper printout when the machine got the fax of his signed scorecard, it looked like he was claiming a score [...]
- 5 April 2012: The Cost of Data Breach in the UK – By Susie Cornelius, ProcessFlows
It was recently announced that 132 local authorities have admitted to losing sensitive data in the past three years. Some incidents were more serious than others, but at least 35 councils lost information about children in their care.
- 3 April 2012: Three Trends in Healthcare IT: What I learned at HIMSS12 – The complex and dynamic healthcare IT marketplace was on full display at HIMSS12 in Las Vegas last month. After spending a few days interacting with partners, customers and healthcare IT consumers as a representative of OpenText’s Fax and Document Distribution Group (FDDG), three main trends stood out to me that I feel are important to share with those unable to attend, whether health professionals with IT problems or vendors with IT solutions.
- 27 March 2012: A Simple and Compliant Solution to the Paper Problem in Healthcare – Healthcare organizations that employ a virtually “paperless” EMR or EHR solution may believe that they are immune to penalties but that’s simply not the case. Send a fax to the wrong person or leave a fax in whole or part at an unattended fax machine and you could be subject to costly fines. In fact, the number and amount of compliancy fines in the US is at an all-time high.
- 26 March 2012: Announcing The New Video-Based Complimentary RightFax Administrator Course – Have you ever wanted to attend the Complimentary RightFax Administrators Course but found that it didn’t fit into your schedule? We have now solved that problem with a new course. We cover everything we did before, but now you can attend on your schedule!
- 23 March 2012: Healthcare IT is Healthy: Reflections on HIMSS12 – After attending this year’s HIMSS trade show, I am as excited as ever about the direction healthcare is heading with regard to new information technologies. Even compared to last year’s event, I can see a real difference in the passion healthcare providers are displaying in seeking out new technologies to deliver better care and service–in particular those that can help them address security, compliance and data privacy.
- 16 March 2012: HIMSS12: Meeting Compliance Head-on – Think of the HIMSS tradeshow as the supermarket of healthcare IT–anything and anyone you might be looking for is there. I showed up this year representing OpenText RightFax and took advantage of a valuable chance to locate and interact with people who can benefit from a fax solution. I also attended to keep up to date on the ever-changing trends in healthcare IT.
- 6 March 2012: Fax and Healthcare: Alive and Kicking at HIMSS – I found HIMSS to be a great opportunity to connect with existing partners and customers as well as those HIT vendors who do not yet have, or who are looking for a replacement for an existing document distribution solution to automate inbound and outbound fax communications from their applications
- 2 March 2012: HIMSS: A Must-Attend Event for Healthcare IT Providers – HIMSS is a place where birds of a feather in the healthcare marketplace can meet and learn how healthcare information technology providers can help customers meet their many and varied compliance mandates.
