The COVID-19 situation unfolding around the world in the past few months has led to citizens, government officials and healthcare workers needing to make decisions they’ve never been faced with before and come together to find new solutions to address unprecedented challenges.
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St. Mary’s was looking for a way to streamline report distribution among its many off-site locations, including four family health centers and seven behavioral health centers sprawled across two counties. The system partnered with Interbit Data to implement NetDelivery, enabling multiple delivery options to satisfy the various customer needs.
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Parkview Medical Center was looking for a seamless, efficient way to access the patient data stored in their EHR system remotely, over the internet. They turned to Interbit Data, whose NetDelivery products transformed the way Parkview communicates and shares information.
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Despite every hospital and health system’s efforts to deliver high-quality, efficient care and keep business operations running smoothly at all times, healthcare information system (HCIS) downtimes inevitably occur. Sometimes these are planned (routine maintenance, updating of systems, or switching from one EHR to another) and sometimes they are unplanned (power outages, natural disasters, system malfunctions, or cyberattacks).
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HIMSS20 will be here sooner than you think. On March 9, healthcare stakeholders from all areas of the industry will descend upon Orlando to network, learn, and share stories about the professional passion that ties us all together.
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The rumor mill appears to be churning again. Those of us in the MEDITECH community know it is small and information moves around it quickly. Sometimes the information is true, oftentimes it is not. We recently heard there were concerns that our product Desktop Fax does not work with versions of MEDITECH 6.x. Not to worry! We have numerous customers running […]
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As always, I thank our customers for choosing Interbit Data as a partner for their HCIS environment. We are committed to ensuring that we continue to provide the best products and services available in the marketplace. Every once in a while, we receive information that customers and prospective customers have been advised that our products are incompatible with the MEDITECH […]
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When people think about healthcare information system downtimes, they often immediately think about the impact on patient care. But, downtimes can be very costly in terms of both patient safety and dollars, especially if you don’t have a good business continuance plan, which we’ll outline below. But the financial costs are not the only costs.
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Hospitals are a bit like cities. Cities have systems that keep them running, such as sanitation, police, and power. Hospitals have an HCIS. What happens when this system stops running? For a hospital, suddenly, the technology that helped it run like a well-oiled machine is gone. Uh oh. It will impact the entire hospital, but arguably the following four roles […]
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One moment all was “normal.” Or the “normal” that nurses and other clinicians, admissions and pharmacy staff experience each day. But then the hospital gets an unexpected surprise. The patient rounds, the dispensing of meds, the patient intake, the normal things that happen every day, shift after shift, suddenly get the equivalent of a splash of cold water to the […]
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