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The VitalKnowledge resource library is a collection of articles, papers, and current events about our industry. We will continually add content here to provide a resource for Healthcare IT professionals to keep up to date on trends, solutions, and technology.

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Technology and Integration

PDF Document The Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Integrator
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People was a fantastic book by Steven Covey, first published in 1989. The book was tremendously popular and has sold over 15 million copies ...
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PMO Document Put the "Help" Back into Help Desk
Technology in health care is becoming increasingly more critical and its sophistication is certainly attempting to outpace...
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PDF Icon Sunrise SQL Server Reporting Services for Sunrise 4.5 XA
Sunrise SQL Server Reporting Services is a powerful addition to Sunrise 4.5 XA that can be used at your site to...
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PMO Forum Identity Management in Healthcare
As the healthcare IT landscape becomes increasingly more complex, governed by regulation...
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Industry Knowledge

A Dose of RHIOlity Critical Success Factors for Healthcare Software Implementations
It is estimated that 78% of projects fail to meet their original objectives...
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A Dose of RHIOlity A Dose of RHIOlity
The toughest RHIO integration challenges are not technology-based.
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So You've Been Put In Charge Of Tranining & Now What? So You've Been Put in Charge of Training …Now What?
The system is built, and you have the awesome job of training everyone in the facility to use it.
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PMO Forum Integration and Automation Transform Medication Administration Safety
Successful eMARs mandate a multifold integration strategy that includes people, process, applications and technology.
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Business Solutions

PDF Workflow Observation
Assessing current workflow when implementing a new or redesigning an existing automated system is instrumental to a successful implementation. This integrated approach involves. ...
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PDF INVISION® Allergy Tips
The INVISION® Drug Allergy Module (DAM) helps customers coordinate and streamline patient allergy information to save time and money, as well as to help prevent...
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PDF PMO Director Job Description
One of the first challenges in creating a PMO is deciding on the right qualities the leader of your Project Management Office (PMO) should possess. ...
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PDF Testing… Testing… 123
You’ve designed and validated the workflows, built master files,workqueues, and created category lists. At this point, you feel you can breathe a sigh of relief, but...
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Unleash the Power of Gold CPOE Best Practices Prioritization - A Quantifiable Approach
According to KLAS CPOE Digest 2007, only 6.8% of healthcare organizations have implemented or have begun the implementation of CPOE.
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PMO Forum

Challenges with the Latest Healthcare Applications Healthcare providers continue following the trend towards using new applications over the internet, some hosted by vendors and some running ...
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