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EHR Intelligence: Inefficient health IT costs hospitals $8.3 billion a year
New research by the Ponemon Institute shows that outdated and inefficient health IT and communications tools are costing hospitals money and wasting time for patients and physicians alike.  Poor WiFi connectivity, a reliance on old-fashioned pagers and a lack of texting, and the slow exchange of emails add up to more than $8.3 billion a year for hospitals, or around $900,000 per facility.
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Dark Reading: Study Shows Hospitals Waste 8.3 Billion Yearly On Outdated Communications Technology And Restrictive Security
Study from Ponemon Institute shows clinicians waste an average of more than 45 minutes each day due to the use of outdated communication technologies.
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HealthBlawg: Ponemon Institute study finds outdated communications technologies cost U.S. hospitals $8.3 billion a year
A conversation with Sean Kelly, CMO of Imprivata, a health IT company with single sign-on and secure SMS solutions that commissioned the study, entitled The Economic & Productivity Impact of IT Security on Healthcare.
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USA Today: Hospitals lose $8.3 billion using old technology
U.S. physicians and hospitals are in the digital dark ages when it comes to using the latest mobile devices and Internet services to deliver patient care.
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SearchHealthIT: Obsolete technology hits efficiency, raises costs
The use of obsolete technology is costing hospitals billions of dollars each year by decreasing physician efficiency and complicating compliance with privacy laws, according to a new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
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ComputerWorld: HIPAA rules, outdated tech cost U.S. hospitals $8.3B a year
HIPAA and outdated communications devices can make it harder to deliver effective patient care, according to a survey of physicians, hospital administrators and IT pros.
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CNN Money: Pagers cost hospitals billions
U.S. hospitals are wasting billions of dollars each year by having their staff use archaic communication technology like pagers.
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Forbes: Risk And Reward: Does Your CEO Take The Big Bet?
Choosing where to play is the CEO’s big bet. He or she must lead the strategic direction of the company by examining the business environment, organizational history and recent results. Omar Hussain took the bet.
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FierceHealthIT: Old communications technologies cost hospitals $8.3 billion per year
If employees at your hospital are using pagers or other outdated communications technologies, they're guilty of wasting both time and money--a lot of the latter, according to a new report published by the Ponemon Institute.
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HealthIT Security: Harmonizing patient engagement with secure communication
One conundrum that healthcare faces while it tries to create and adopt best-of-breed technologies that can make a clinician’s job more efficient while making data more transparent to patients is that these patients double as consumers. They’re used to a certain level of access with their mobile devices or social media platforms and expect healthcare to fall in line with expectations of other industries.