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The Whitepapers library on FierceHealthcare.com contains whitepapers, case studies and research briefs on business and technology issues affecting hospitals and medical groups.

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New Forrester Report: Data Loss Prevention Solutions

Source: 
Websense
Check out this report today and safe-guard your information assets. In this evaluation, Forrester reviews market leaders in Data Leak Prevention (DLP). Forrester evaluated leading DLP vendors across Read more...

The Definitive IP Address Management (IPAM) Intelligence Whitepaper

Source: 
BlueCat Networks
View this whitepaper to see how IP Address Management (IPAM) is much more than just a marriage between DNS and Read more...

The New Encryption Generation: Closing the Gap

Source: 
Credant
Concerned about the damage and liabilities of lost and stolen data, healthcare organizations are turning to encryption to prevent sensitive information from ending up in the wrong hands. Read more...

Clinician mobility demands seamless connectivity

Source: 
Trapeze
Hospitals deploying EMR all-too-often devote too much time to software and not enough time to the mobility infrastructure needed for successful deployment. Barry P. Chaiken MD, MPH, FHIMSS discusses Read more...

Premerus Issues Study Addressing Medical Misdiagnosis in America 2008

Source: 
CPR Online

Premerus, the nation’s only company dedicated to advancing clinical accuracy through diagnostic excellence, released a white paper which documents the problems of medical misdiagnosis, defines the

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The Challenge of Securing Hard to Patch Servers in Health Care Environments

Source: 
Blue Lane

The healthcare industry has benefited from the breakneck pace of digitization - spanning everything from payments to patient records to X-ray film- but it has also been increasingly exposed to

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Enhancing Telecom Expense Management Through Enterprise Business Intelligence

Source: 
MBG Expense Management.

Telecom expenses are one of the largest IT costs on the general ledger and require deep dive analytical tools to drive consistent cost savings. Next generation telecom expense management (TEM)

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IM and Presence: Achieving Mission Critical Status in the Enterprise

Source: 
Sybase iAnywhere

This J.Gold Associates white paper provides an overview of instant messaging (IM) & presence, as well as trends which will impact mobile enterprise users. Companies that do not treat IM as

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Benefits, Challenges and a Proposed Approach to Integrating CMS and FDA Information

Source: 
Apptis, Inc
Author: 
Melissa Chapman & Adam Welsh- Senior Vice Presidents of the Apptis Health Solutions Sector

This white paper focuses on the integration of various information stores of care delivery-related data through the activities of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

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HIPAA Security Provisions

Source: 
Tripwire

If your company is subject to HIPAA, is it prepared to meet the requirements of the Security Rule? This paper explains how Tripwire configuration audit and control solutions can keep your IT systems

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Engaging Physicians in a Shared Quality Agenda

Source: 
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Author: 
Reinertsen JL, Gosfield AG, Rupp W, Whittington JW.

This white paper presents a framework on which hospital leaders might build a written plan for physician engagement in quality and safety. The paper includes tools to help hospital leaders assess

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Can a National Healthcare Information Network Work?

Source: 
Knowledge @ Wharton

It’s been five years since scientists mapped the human genome — and nearly 40 years since doctors completed the first successful heart transplant — but in the realm of information technology,

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Addressing Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare

Source: 
netiQ

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA) of 1996 is probably the first regulation that people
think of when considering healthcare in the United States.
However, organizations

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Building Teams in Primary Care: Lessons from 15 Case Studies

Source: 
California HealthCare Foundation
Author: 
Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D., UCSF School of Medicine

Much of the practice of medicine is predicated on teams of people working together. Not so in primary care. A busy primary care office handles such a wide array of patients that it is difficult to

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