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RSS health riskReducing the Cost of Defensive Medicine Using the Internet
White Paper In that context, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) rightly makes a virtue of privacy, but it can also bring about a financial burden - a burden that can best be met through a... [13 Nov 2009]
Supply Chain Risk Assessment
White Paper For pharmaceutical, life sciences, and medical device companies, supply chain breakdowns not only bring immediate damage to the affected company, but also can threaten human health and well-being by causing medical... [13 Nov 2009]
Small Business Strategies to Limit the Risk and Affects of Data Loss: Preventing Unplanned Downtime and Business Failure
White Paper As a business owner or IT professional, one understands how crucial data is to the health of company. No matter what field one is in, today it is almost impossible to do business without having an Internet presence and... [12 Nov 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News It could also help to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and, more broadly, to reduce the risk to the business from liability for the actions of its employees. Every office generates so... [22 Oct 2009]
Give your infrastructure a checkup: Four areas of security vital to business health
White Paper This article covers the four areas a checkup of your information security should cover: overall security capabilities, privacy, risk management and compliance. Does your IT infrastructure need a physical? [21 Oct 2009]
Information Risk Management for Healthcare Organizations: Six Best Practices for Protecting Your Health Information
White Paper Protecting health information from enterprise data loss is both a strategic necessity and regulatory requirement. The risks, including damage to patient and physician confidence and institutional reputation, are far too... [06 Oct 2009]
A Risk Management Perspective: The Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rules for 2008 and 2009
White Paper The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule on August 1, 2007, which revises the acute care hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS). [06 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News Of course profitability is key to the health of a business. Persuading the vendor to share information on its takings is a good way of limiting "long-term risk to both parties". Want to avoid getting... [30 Sep 2009]
Healthways Heads Off Increased Costs With SAS
White Paper The challenge was to determine patient risk levels to deliver improved health outcomes. Healthways deployed SAS Enterprise Miner that predicts hidden relationships in millions of member records to... [19 Sep 2009]
Brock University Professor Predicts Risk of Heart Disease
White Paper The challenge for Brock University was to predict future health outcomes based on past behavior and environmental factors. Not only have changes in diet and lifestyle sharply reduced the risk of... [19 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News In a partnership with the Nature Conservancy, it's gathering data on various environmental factors to measure the health of river ecosystems. Corporate risk There's also "reputational... [08 Sep 2009]
McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint - Advanced Simplifies Security Risk Management at Ellis Hospital
White Paper Ellis Hospital, based in Schenectady, New York, includes a 360-bed, full-service health care facility, a School of Nursing, a mental health clinic, the 40-bed Bellevue Women's Center, and three small... [01 Sep 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Whitehall already offshores a limited amount of work, including some back office operations under the NHS Shared Business Services Centre run by Steria and the Department of Health. The matter is important now because of... [03 Aug 2009]
Connected Healthcare Architecture: Reusable Network Services Improve Patient Care and Clinician Productivity
White Paper The portfolio of Cisco Connected Health solutions helps address many of the key operational issues faced by healthcare providers today. This empowers personnel to make better-informed decisions quickly and at a lower... [31 Jul 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo All of these help us to understand better the health situation and in which direction a country is going. World Health Organisation The World Health Organisation (WHO) helps countries... [27 Jul 2009]
