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[Tech Tip!] Cloud Craze: Are You a CIO Worried About Cloud ROI?

By Prime Care Tech Marketing on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 @ 09:15 AM

With today's rising costs, healthcare facilities must keep a tight grasp on their budgets! With that said, there's a trend of news articles suggesting CIOs are not seeing ROI from moving to cloud-based services.

 

But MedCityNews is debunking this, reminding us that change is neither easy nor cheap. In their article, Debunking Cloud Cost and ROI Hogwash for Healthcare, they explain how the cloud is in fact revolutionizing healthcare systems, delivering both cost and time savings. 

 

In another article from Becker's Hospital Review, 'Cloud projects are powering forward': Health system CIOs on cloud spending amid economic pressures, Scott Arnold, Executive Vice President and CIO of Tampa General Hospital, says “We don't view cloud service as a 'nice to have' or unnecessary expense.” 

 

Why? Because hospitals and healthcare facilities need to move EHRs around while storing patient data in a secure location. The cost to provide a facility with all the on-site equipment and energy for this would easily equal or trample the cost of an IT-provided cloud service that provides cybersecurity, resilience, agility, and scalability. 

 

The takeaway here is to have patience in seeking ROI from conversion to cloud-based services – and to strategically plan how and when you might embark upon this. But it is a necessary adaptation to meet the healthcare industry's critical and fast-changing needs.

 

"Cloud power is what drives the rapid digital innovation we see across pretty much every other industry — and it enables healthcare organizations to solve increasingly complex problems more affordably, quickly, and reliably."

 

Our primeCLOUD team can help by providing you with the strategy, security, cost control, operational efficiency, reliability, and agility to maximize your IT performance. Get in touch to strategize your transition to cloud-based services.

Topics: interoperability Long-Term Post-Acute Care primeCLOUD private cloud cyber security managed IT services operational efficiency hybrid cloud
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[Recap] What We Heard at LTC 100

By Prime Care Tech Marketing on Thu, Jun 02, 2022 @ 11:12 AM

Last week our team connected with leaders from long-term and post-acute care at LTC 100. As always, these events help us stay on top of the challenges our customers face in their day-to-day operations. Here's what we heard at LTC 100 and how we can help.

YOUR CHALLENGE OUR SOLUTION
Data! Yes, operators need data, but it must be quality data and provide actionable insights.

Our primeVIEW app answers this need like no other analytics option with customization for skilled nursing (SNFs) and assisted living facilities (ALFs).

Interoperability! Health care provider overlap among acute, post-acute, and physicians continues to drive a need for data and EHR interoperability.

Our primeCLAIMS app now offers two-way integration with PointClickCare's EHR system, with other EHR vendors to follow.

Our primeCONNECT middleware can take it a step further to meet your interoperability needs with acute and physician care providers.

Staffing! It's just going to remain a struggle at this time, driving challenges like:
  • How do you do more with less?
  • How do you retain talent?
  • How do you attract new employees in this time of increased wages?

Our primeVIEW app helps you do more with less by offering daily monitoring of staff-to-census and overtime.

Our primeFORCE affiliates can help you retain talent with employee benefits technology, plus cost-effective insurance packages from leading providers. 

Specialization! Operators are looking to define specialty care areas as a more focused way to increase census.

Our primeVIEW app helps you trend clinical cases to define high volume, as you track aging and outstanding accounts to verify consistent payment for your services.

Technology! Working smarter can impact quality and staffing, among other challenges. 

Our primeVIEW app provides you with a snapshot of total operations, allowing leaders to zero in on underperformance, as well as high-performing areas to replicate across facilities.

Our primeCLAIMS integration with PointClickCare's EHR, coupled with other senior care customization, empowers you to do more with less staff while expediting payment.

Our Managed Care MASTER case-to-contract app ensures you meet the quality care requirements of your payers while capturing every dollar promised in the contract.

 

In addition to our software-as-a-service (SaaS) suite, we can help with the technology and security infrastructure you need to run your business cost-effectively and wisely. Ask us about our primeCLOUD managed IT services.

If you missed us at LTC 100, catch up with us for recommended strategies and how our technologies can help.

For more recap details, see McKnights Long-Term Care News: Distressed or ready to reset? At LTC 100, execs share thoughts on 2022 outlook.

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Topics: interoperability primeVIEW primeCLAIMS primeCLOUD senior living analytics SNF analytics staff retention labor shortages technology primeforce ltc100
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[Media] The price of admission - McKnight's

By Prime Care Tech Marketing on Thu, Nov 01, 2018 @ 04:34 PM

A recent article in McKnight's on the pace of EHR adoption in assisted living facilities centers around several factors. Cheryl Field, Chief Product Officer, Prime Care Technologies, weighs in with other industry experts. 

“The organizations that are part of larger entities are much more accepting and readily adopting because their business lines are attached to other parts of the post-acute care continuum, where they have seen how critical it is to have standardization of data,” she says. 

"From a security perspective, interoperability becomes an issue on technical standards and practice,” she adds. “It is a challenge and remains so. I think we’re about five to 10 years out from being fully interoperable across the continuum.”

See the article.
Learn about our interoperable solutions.
See a short video.

Topics: interoperability EHR EHR adoption Assisted Living

[Media] Cheryl Field cited in McKnight's "Tech-Policy Junction"

By Prime Care Tech Marketing on Tue, Sep 11, 2018 @ 02:39 PM

 

Cheryl Field, Chief Product Officer, weighs in with other tech experts in McKnight's "Tech-Policy Junction" – a recent article on the intersection of technology and health policy, and how vendors and providers are responding to federal guidelines while trying to gain ground in the digital world.

Field agrees that for many providers, financial incentives and resources is a fundamental barrier to interoperability, but notes that "more and more vendors are working together to complete that interoperability work on behalf of providers."

READ THE McKNIGHT'S ARTICLE

Topics: interoperability Cures Act Compliance federal interoperability standards CMS Data Element Library DEL
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[Media] McKnight’s - Gaining or slipping? Cheryl Field weighs in on tech adoption in senior care

By Prime Care Tech Marketing on Thu, May 31, 2018 @ 06:08 AM

 
 
Gaining or slipping?
 
In McKnight's "Gaining or slipping," an article on tech adoption in senior care settings, leading execs responded that the most impactful tech had to do with 'interoperability' as providers rush to integrate EHR with payers and provider partners.

Noted Cheryl Field, CPO, Prime Care Technologies,“Employing interoperability, leading post-acute care organizations are able to manage critical areas across multiple facilities — quality of care, procurement, reimbursement and even regulatory compliance."

Read more about tech adoption from Cheryl and the senior care C-suite in McKnight's

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Topics: interoperability CLAIMS AUTOMATION e-procurement case management for managed care managed care revenue skilled stay optimization post-acute performance dashboard

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