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The Debate between Specialist or Generalist as a Career Track for Future Business Needs By Ron Rex For decades the workforce has debated on the most valuable career track: is it specialist or generalist? Do I focus on deep specialist credentials and experience, or will I be better off in the long run by being…
Continue ReadingGarbage in = Garbage Out = High Risk By Lindsay Westervelt J P Systems, Inc. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic right now in healthcare for numerous reasons. Namely, AI has the potential to reduce clinical burnout and fatigue by improving Clinical Decision Support. AI uses Machine Learning to create predictive logic and “act”…
Continue ReadingAuthor: David C. Kibbe, MD On March 9, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule aimed at enhancing interoperability and increasing patient access to health information. This Final Rule contains a new Condition of Participation (CoP) that requires all hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals to electronically share (via an…
Continue ReadingAs of April 5, 2021, the U.S. ONC Cures Act Final Rule Compliance Timeframe is in effect. Healthcare providers, Health IT developers, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), and Health Information Networks (HINs) will have until October 6, 2022, to provide patients with access to all their Electronic Health Information (EHI). There are several requirements that providers, developers, and…
Continue ReadingBy Dr. Luann Whittenburg, RN, PMP, FHIMSS A Nursing Data Framework can give healthcare providers a way to garner business intelligence to save money and reduce risk by improving workflows, load leveling personnel schedules, and improving patient safety. With more than 4 million nurses in the U.S., nurses are the largest clinical segment of the U.S. healthcare…
Continue ReadingOn February 25, J P Systems received notification from VetsEZ, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), that they received a 3 year $75M prime T4NG contract award by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This award is the T4NG Community Care DevSecOps Contract. This award is to provide Community Care DevSecOps support services. As a subcontractor to VetsEZ,…
Continue ReadingDiversity, culture, and inclusion have become such important topics in the past year. At J P Systems, we’re grateful and honored to have an experienced team of experts from all different backgrounds. That’s why during this Black History month, we asked two of our Senior Analysts, Donna Redley and Nina Mitchell, for their insight on…
Continue ReadingTHE WOMEN OF JPSYS (WOJ) Archive J P SYSTEMS is a Woman Owned Business (WOSB) and Woman’s Business Enterprise (WBE). We pro-actively develop and promote women to serve in their fullest capacity possible. As we are a virtual company, while you are getting up at O’dark thirty and fighting traffic, we are safely home asleep…
Continue ReadingAn Argument for Standardized Reference Terminologies One hundred and forty, 140 – that’s how many different ways there are to describe arterial hypertension, more frequently known as high blood pressure. It may seem like a small number, but if we have 140 different hospitals using 140 different terms for arterial hypertension, we suddenly have 140 hospitals…
Continue ReadingIn Healthcare IT, clinical data needs to move! Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) need to send data both internally, such as other domain-focused applications like the Blood Bank, PACS System, Nurse Staffing, Sepsis Management, Respiratory, Wound Care, and Fetal Monitoring and and externally to another provider or the CDC. If your EHR can’t effectively exchange data within…
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