"e-Healthcare Business Manager does a great job in focusing on the Internet marketplace, particularly in reporting on trends in the industry and predictions of where the market seems to be heading."
Maynard Bronstein
President
CertSite
Raleigh, N.C.
CertSite is a provider of Internet-based utilization management transactions for the healthcare industry. Eligibility verification, provider referrals and precertifications can all be processed through CertSite's server securely online and in real-time.
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e-health vendors are writing contracts……
Healthcare technology companies offering Web-enabled applications are installing their new systems. Healthcare providers and managed care organizations are signing contracts for claims processing, patient information systems, documents management, decision support, credentialing services, ASP applications, and wireless services.
So much for the death of e-healthcare. The Dot.com collapse may have hit technology stocks and sales. But, MCOs and providers are continuing their migration to e-healthcare services, according to e-Healthcare Business Manager.
Twice each month in e-Healthcare Business Manager you can profit from detailed insider information on the growth and the shift of services to Web-delivered and Web-enabled applications.
You'll get complete news and developments on the important issues and trends in e-Healthcare Business Manager like:
- healthcare e-commerce revenues expected to reach $370 billion by 2004;
- how prescription drugs are dominating the shift with $15 billion in online sales;
- how Web pharmacies, insurance carriers and physicians are addressing reimbursement and liability issues;
- how health insurers and HMOs turning to the Internet to improve claims efficiency - (Forrester Research says some $22 4 billion in claims online will be processed;
- the adoption of Palm-type hand-held devices as tools by physicians;
- what's working in online prescribing tools and services, online benefits administration, and tools and services online that aim to improve physicians' workflow.
e-Healthcare Business Manager is not about how your organization can build your Web site or what you should put on it. This is important, actionable business information for senior management.
Answers to Your E-Health Business Information Needs
For instance, you'll get how health and medical suppliers have made online sales and marketing a priority; how employers are planning to use the Internet to spread health plan information to their employees and dependents; what e-healthcare companies must deliver today; how one New York State health plan is using Palm-type hand-held devices to help provide physicians with detailed medical information and HMO guidelines; how the Joslin Diabetes Center is putting its diabetes disease management patient information system online and how one hospital is sending its bills out faster and improving cash flow by transferring patient data electronically between its information system and coding system.
Subscribe now to e-Healthcare Business Manager and you'll learn what other organizations are doing. Discover what the future holds. For instance, how HealthSouth formed a partnership with Oracle Corporation to build an all-digital, automated hospital that may become the new "model for the world." Plans for the "digital hospital" include patient beds with display screens connected to the Internet; electronic medical records storage; digital imaging instead of traditional x-ray film; and a wireless communication network that will permit doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to securely update and access patient's medical records from anywhere in the hospital or for that matter the world.
You know that the growth of e-healthcare technologies has been slowed by a variety of factors including the Balanced Budget Act, Medicare cuts, tight provider- managed care contracts, and the collapse of the Dot.com startups. All these issues have taken the toll on budgets and planning.
Discover What's Behind the Growth
There are numerous factors driving and forcing e-health growth, including real cost savings, major administrative efficiencies, the need for patient privacy and secure electronic transmission, and the pressing deadlines for HIPAA implementation and compliance.
As a subscriber to e-Healthcare Business Manager you'll get exclusive interviews with key players and analysis of developments. You'll get briefings and insight from coverage of industry conferences like e-Healthcare World, Internet Health Day and Health Internet to insure that you get the important coverage of news and information coming from these industry events.
To save you time, each issue is organized for you by topic including contracts awarded, new services, strategic partnerships, licensing agreements, best practices, product updates and upgrades, and news of mergers and acquisitions.
You'll get e-Healthcare Business Manager delivered to your desktop electronically in your choice of format. And you'll also receive a print copy for your convenience and ease-of-use.
For Business Development and Planning, Forecasts, Projections, Statistics at Your Fingertips
Despite barriers to e-business, the health and managed care industry is under pressure to connect patients, doctors, insurance carriers and medical service providers electronically. Healthcare provider organizations and health plans are adopting e-business technologies and strategies to improve how care is delivered.
The top three information technology issues for healthcare are developing an e-business strategy, optimizing organizational effectiveness, and connecting to customers, suppliers and partners electronically, according to a Critical Issues for Information Systems study released by Computer Sciences Corporation.
You'll stay ahead of the curve on new developments -- virtually daily. For example, you'll get news and information on Web-enabled claims handling; online prescriptions; electronic clinical and financial data interchange for hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, and commercial hospital laboratories; patient-centered systems and applications; Web-based financial and accounting systems for hospitals and other health agencies; online managed care organization provider directories; disease management and health promotion applications; Internet-based credentialing, risk management and case management applications; patient-provider-payor "connectivity"; and physician practice management systems.
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The transition to e-health is not just an issue for "the MIS guy" - - it affects almost every aspect of any organization involved in the healthcare industry. Top management, finance, marketing, pharmacy, administrators and patient-care staff all will be doing business differently.
E-mail messaging, hospital-sponsored Web sites and Intranets are becoming components of healthcare organizations' information technology functions. Capital spending on information technology in healthcare will continue its dramatic increase in the years ahead. Major insurers will adopt technology to enable physicians to submit referrals and claims electronically.
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You're subscription to e-Healthcare Business Manager includes regular supplements, special alerts, management clinics, industry conference reports, forecasts and other useful information for decision-making.
Plus as a regular subscriber, you can call or e-mail your editor when you have a quick question relating to what we've reported in your issues.
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