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5 August 2017
You’ve Got Mailware
If you’re anything like me you live in your email’s inbox However, this awesome convenience used incorrectly can damage your organization financially and degrade your public brand. Most hospitals share patient and corporate financial data via email for internal use. Your C-suite leaders may dismiss this claim because there are...
8 December 2016
A Pic May Save Your Pick List
In a recently published DHHS paper, “Report on the Safe Use of Pick Lists in Ambulatory Care Settings”, providers were presented various recommendations to reduce order entry errors. One of the more significant DHHS recommendations was the assertion that patient photos in tandem with the EMR’s order verification screens will...
7 September 2016
The EMR will be inaccessible tomorrow. Please use Downtime Procedures.
BY GREG PARK An email with this title is dreaded by hospital employees, especially when staff are blindsided by unscheduled downtimes that leave them struggling to access patient histories or collect new data. Your hospital, along with every modern healthcare provider, depends on the collection and accessibility of reliable and...
2 November 2015
eForms Hocus Pocus
In our last blog we discussed the value of eForms and JavaScripts, and how to automatically value a text field with the date and time a digital signature was applied. We then introduced the ability to design field logic to secure information security and privacy within your eForms. I...
30 September 2015
New Customer Announcement
DB Technology is pleased to welcome several new recent Ras customers. Jacobi Medical Center North Bronx Healthcare Einstein Medical Center Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton Ras has recently replaced Laserarc, Xenos and Cypress at several locations. Some other recent client expansions include: Robert Wood Johnson at Somerset – Revenue Cycle...
11 August 2015
The Great Escape…of Data
The convergence of digital health information and social file sharing technologies has introduced major challenges for health providers seeking to share PHI with business and clinical partners while adhering to HIPAA obligations. The Risk Are rules for information sharing understood by all employees? File sharing technologies are pervasive and...
31 July 2015
“Little Data” and the Shortcomings of the Self-Service Model
How do your employees and partners obtain the information they need to perform their jobs? Are they PUSHED information in the traditional way, via reports and emails? Are they asked to PULL information via a self-service tool, i.e. EMR dashboards and query tools? The PULL method is the primary...
21 July 2015
Notice of Admission or: How I Learned to Stop Wasting Money and Love my EDM
The only function of an Enterprise Document Management (EDM) is the delivery of unstructured content and Interoperability with your EMR…Right? Wrong! For Dbtech customers Ras provides features well beyond traditional EDM. For example, many of our customers have recognized the efficiency of automating payer notification through the Ras Notice...
16 July 2015
Data Singularity
Much like the blind men and elephant, you will only understand a person, place or thing when you see the big picture. How true this is for patient care. Your EMR is great, and better be considering its price-tag! Would it surprise you to learn it is missing 25%...
15 June 2015
Options for Historical Patient Data while Upgrading your EHR
Are you getting ready for the BIG MOVE to your new EHR? Like most US hospitals you are either in midst of negotiations with a new vendor, preparing your implementation project plan, or scrambling to make your new system “fit in” with your hospital family. So why change? Based...
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