Considering a foray into healthcare? Now’s the time!
Unless you’ve been in a cave, under a rock, or glued to your TV watching the 25 days of Christmas holiday movie marathon, you’ve seen the latest issue of CRN magazine with their 2010 Annual Report...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know When Selling Barcoding Into Healthcare
In healthcare, mistakes can cost lives. When the stakes are that huge, it’s imperative to provide the highest level of patient care and safety possible, as well as excellent communication from one...
View ArticleCandy, panty hose and healthcare opportunities?
Ah yes, I knew that title would grab your attention. So you’re sitting there wondering, “what in the world is this nut talking about?”. Well, there’s a simple answer (that I will lengthen a little so...
View ArticlePhysicians Need Barcoding Too
One of our buddies around here is “Noosh”, Mark Neuenschwander of The Neuenschwander Company (say that 5 times fast). Over the last year or so we’ve been able to develop a relationship with his team...
View ArticleHelp Save Lives by Educating Yourself on the Healthcare Industry
This morning I was heading to the break room to get my cup of ice for my daily cup of Joe, also known as Mountain Dew, when something on the TV caught my attention. Well, if I’m being honest, it was...
View ArticleCashing In as a Healthcare IT Service Provider or Managed Service Provider (MSP)
So, one of my co-workers and a fellow blog-mates here on The Source (Katharine Peery) shared a handy website with me for some “insider” info to SMB opportunities in the channel with some good...
View ArticleCan We Really Eliminate Medical Errors Through Technology?
Last week my daughter was complaining of stomach pains and issues. Typically, we would load her up with the pink stuff and be on our way. But things were back and forth in how she was feeling so we...
View ArticleTaking the Fluff Out of the Cloud in Healthcare IT!
So I’ve got this stack of health IT magazines sitting on my desk from the last few months that I look at multiple times a week and say… I’ve really got to take a look through those things to see what I...
View Article6 Best Practices and Guidelines for a Successful Health IT Infrastructure
So my “Source” partner in crime here that manages the Government Source program, Katherine Peery, sent me an article in Government Technology magazine that outlines the 12 elements of a successful...
View ArticleInfographic: Improving US Life Expectancy Through EMR Technology
The folks at Dell Healthcare recently pulled together some data and findings to give a picture of what the implementation of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) in the US could do. Pretty interesting...
View ArticleInfographic: Digital Healthcare: Where are we now?
Recently, Iron Mountain Inc, a world leader in information management services, conducted a survey and generated a pretty interesting infographic about how 200 healthcare facilities are scanning paper...
View ArticleMobile Devices in Healthcare: How is the money being spent?
Typically I like to track down a good infographic, or an article with a lot of graphs and pictures, because I’m a pretty visual learner (which is the professional way of saying I don’t like to read)....
View ArticleHealth IT: Not Just For The Big Guys
Recently, our friends at Healthcare Technology Online released their “Community Hospital Health IT Road Map” edition containing great information specific to smaller market healthcare facilities. They...
View ArticleOpportunity is the buzz after the unSummit healthcare show!
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the unSummit Healthcare show in Anaheim, CA. For those of you not familiar, this particular show has a primary focus on patient safety… pretty much the...
View ArticleThe Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda of Bar Code Implementation in Healthcare
While on my recent trip to the West coast for the unSummit show, I had the opportunity to sit in on a presentation by a healthcare facility discussing, in hindsight, the things they should have done...
View ArticleComing to Partner Conference? Come a day early for your health!
As many of you may have already heard, ScanSource is throwing quite the party here in Greenville, SC Sept. 10-12 to celebrate 20 years of partnering with VARs in this industry. We’re rolling out the...
View ArticleInfographic: Mobile Technology in Healthcare
Recently, as I’ve been known to do on occasion, I did a Google search for “healthcare infographic.” I’m a visual kind of guy, and I like the concept behind an infographic, along with the information...
View ArticleBYOD – Bring Your Own Disease?
In a recent post by Datalogic ADC, they discussed the question of, should antimicrobial devices be mandatory in healthcare? They take a look at the idea that, as the use of personal mobile devices in...
View ArticleSTAT 2.0… It’s alive!!!
At ScanSource, we like to think we do a lot of things pretty well. One of those things… really great collateral! Well the latest and greatest is here, designed specifically for the healthcare vertical....
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