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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

smatData's EMR Software Allows You Manage Patient-Data Effortlessly

Are you a health practitioner in the USA?

If yes then you must get a HL7 certified EMR software.

HL7 is an international community that creates standards for the exchange, management and integration of electronic healthcare information. With the introduction of the ARRA and HITECH acts by the US government, the HL7 standards have gained a lot of importance.

It has been made mandatory for all health facilities to convert their patient records into electronic format, which technically known as Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). This makes it necessary for every clinic, hospital or say every doctor to have an EMR system, accredited according the HL7 standards, to manage all the patient information.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) of the USA has developed an open-source program called Laika to test and certify the HIT products such as EHR software for compliance with HL7 standards.

The key purposes of the HL7 standards are:

1. Health information exchange between a doctor's cabin, lab, and hospital
2. Streamlining patient care
3. Reduction of errors during treatment

Implementing an EMR software with a physician’s work process is a complex task. Often, the in-house health administrators do not have the expertise to manage the technicalities involved. So it is recommended to strive for an EMR software that can help you optimize your patient details. Such EMR software creates an integrated technology framework that lets the doctor or any healthcare practitioner to electronically share information with the hospital and the lab.

An EMR interface must comply with the HL7 standards; moreover, it should be user-friendly and should get easily integrated with different hardware and software systems. Hence today, several IT firms and software developers are engaged in providing EMR software to manage the patient data.

The HL7 compliant EMR software by smartData, a renowned software solutions provider in India going for an HL7 Certification, serves as an easy to use interface that allows you manage all your patient data effortlessly. smartData offers comprehensive, user-oriented, affordable and integrated software solutions.

So, leave all your EMR worries with smartData and concentrate on treating your patients well!

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Effective smartData Software Solutions Help you Qualify ARRA Incentives

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, abbreviated as ARRA, have been enacted by the American government to help the nation's economy recover from a decade-long recession. ARRA provides various economic stimulus packages to promote investments in American goods, technologies and to save and create jobs.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is an integral part of ARRA that concentrates on Healthcare Information Technology (HIT). In case of HIT, technology represents computers and communication derives that can be networked into a system for storing and moving health related information. The goal of the HITECH act is adoption and 'meaningful use' of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by the healthcare providers to achieve significant improvements in healthcare.

The HITECH act promises incentives for those health practitioners who adopt and use ‘Certified EHRs’. Doctors who fail to adopt an EHR by 2015 will be penalized 1% of Medicare payments that will increase up to 3% over the next three years.

By the meaningful use of EHRs, the US government intends to improve healthcare coordination by reducing healthcare disparities as well as engaging patients and their families in healthcare to maintain privacy and security.

The Meaningful Use of EHR means, the use of a certified EHR:

1. Software such as e-prescribing
2. For effective exchange of health information to improve the quality of healthcare
3. To submit clinical/medical attributes and other measures

Nowadays, various IT companies are developing software and result-oriented solutions to help doctors and other healthcare practitioners to successfully implement the government's ARRA act. In tandem with this, smartData is one such company that renders user-friendly software and EHR solutions, which assist you to effectively adopt the healthcare policies. Moreover, software solutions by smartData also help you qualify for receiving the ARRA incentives.

smartData one of the leading IT firm, specializes in software development and internet marketing. It has gained a worldwide reputation by rendering its clients with flawless, customer oriented solutions.

So, achieve significant improvements in healthcare sector by successfully implementing the ARRA act!!

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Google EMD Algorithm Update: Recovery Possible!

The recently announced Google EMD Algorithm Update has banged the world of web. Thus, a lot of webmasters have started looking for ideas on how to overcome this. In the case of EMD algorithm update the actual impact is on low quality sites with exact match domains. Low quality sites particularly mean websites housing low quality content as according to Matt Cutts, if good content quality is maintained, the EMD update will not hit the site.

A great deal of sites with exact match domains lost the traffic they were acquiring from exact match keywords just due to the low quality content they were comprising. The EMD update actually aims to target the low quality content sites that may be ranking only on the basis of exact domain matching.

Here are a few suggestions which will prove helpful to reduce the impact of the EMD algorithm update and perhaps try to recover from the traffic loss:

Update the content more often:

Rarely updated sites were significantly affected and those that were updated regularly were least affected by EMD update. Thus, add fresh content more regularly.

Don't just depend on domain name to bring traffic:

Earlier, getting an exact match domain itself guaranteed success. After the Google EMD change an EMD is no longer an assurance to fetch traffic. Maintaining high quality content is a must. Don't just expect traffic because you have a great domain.

Analyze your content and check the quality:

Carefully analyze your content and check what made Google think your site is a low quality site. Remove all low quality content that was made to cheat Google. Make sure you provide only relevant information about the specific topics you are focusing on.

Compare with the competitors and learn from them:

Do a search engine ranking comparison against your competitors. If their rankings are better than your site, then analyze their sites very well and find what are they doing better.

Now quality is the key and it has been cleared that the EMD update is targeting only low quality content and not all sites that have exact match domains!

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You Got Informs on Google EMD Update?

The internet world was again slammed by the new arrival - the ‘Google EMD algorithm update’. It was Friday, September 28th of 2012 when this monster hit the internet world hard. It has likely affected 0.6 % of English searches.

Head of Webspam at Google, Matt Cutts’ tweets offered the sneak peek of this algorithm update which said:

“Small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality “exact-match” domains in search results.”

“New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. Unrelated to Panda/Penguin Updates.”

Exact match domains (EMD) mean domains or Url's that match exactly to the searched query i.e. the keyword. The EMD update, is a tool to filter the low-quality websites from rising high in Google search results only because their domain names match the search terms. It actually aims to target the low quality sites that may be ranking only on the basis of exact matching.

Google is NOT exactly punishing EMD sites as actually many NON-EMD sites have got blasted. It is punishing a “type” of site that aims to abuse the EMD bonus or other on page factors. The truth is that this is just another addition of the Penguin over SEO update. This new update is an improvement on the last penguin updates, wherein it will also take the domain name into consideration. Google now has trained Mr. Penguin to look at the domain name as well.

Similar to previous Google updates like Panda, and Penguin even EMD algorithm will be updated periodically. So those who got hit by EMD this time may escape from the next EMD update, while others who did not get hit this time around could get caught up in the near future.

There's no escape from the Google EMD algorithm!!!

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Monday, August 6, 2012

CakePHP Offers Structured Framework to PHP users

CakePHP is an open source rapidly developing web application framework for PHP. It uses most commonly known design patterns such as MVC, ActiveRecord, Front Controller and Association Data Mapping, etc. To offer structured framework to the PHP users at each level in order to develop robust web applications quickly with utmost flexibility is the key objective of this technology.

It has begun in the year 2005 and is being used by many blogs and websites. It uses numerous concepts of Ruby on Rails programming language though it is not at all the port of Ruby on Rails to PHP.

A conference on CakePHP named ‘CakeFest’ has been organized yearly. The Cake Software Foundation operates this annual Conference, which initially was held as a bi-annual program.

It’s an MVC-based framework

Each aspect of a web application, right from the initial user request to the final rendering of a web page can be handled through the CakePHP framework. It follows the principles of MVC (Model, View, Controller), and allows easy customization and extension of most of the aspects of your application. Moreover, just by keeping the whole application consistent and logical you can have a basic organizational structure through this, be it filenames or database table names.

Along with Model, View, Controller; CakePHP also features Component, Behavior and Helper classes.

Controllers

- First of all controllers. They contain the logic of application. Each controller can offer different functionality, retrieve and modify data by accessing database tables through models, register variables and objects, which can be used in views.

Models

- Models provide the active representations of database tables. They are used in CakePHP applications for various data access purposes. Models can get connected to your database, query it if they are instructed by a controller to do so, and save data to the database.

Views

- Template files, which present their content to the user, are Views. The variables, arrays along with any other object used in views are registered through a controller. Views should contain only the elementary control structures that are required to perform particular operations, but should not contain complex business logic.

Helpers

- Helpers represent stuffs such as classes for the presentation layer of your application that cover presentational logic shared between a number of views, elements or layouts. To make use of helpers, the CakePHP framework requires a controller.

Behaviours

- Model behaviours help to separate a logic that probably may not be related directly to a model but might be there, and may attach functionality to the models by defining a simple class variable.

Components

- Components represent packages of logic pooled between the controllers. There is a set of core components in CakePHP which can be used to aid in the components like -

•Security

•Sessions

•Access control lists

•Emails

•Cookies

•Authentication

•Request handling

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Are You Aware of HIPAA Regulations?

HIPAA- “The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act” of US was enacted on 21st August 1996 in order to revamp the health care and health insurance sectors of the nation. This act protects the health insurance cover of employees, individuals, workers, businessmen, their families and people from all walks of life. An insurance holder gets fair control over his or her personal medical information along with maintaining its confidentiality and hence avoiding its misuse. Under this act, the health insurance cover of an employee remains protected even if the he or she switches or changes the job. Moreover, HIPAA also covers your pre-existing medical conditions in case if you change your company. Hence, employees can easily change their jobs without worrying for health insurance.

So, as per the law, it is essential for health care and insurance providers to protect each and every medical record of their client. This is where the application of EMR (Electronic medical record) and EHR (Electronic Health Record) software found to be extremely useful. These software are used by health professionals and health insurance companies to maintain the medical records of the individual. There are many advantages of these applications. First of all, it reduces the hassle of paper work, documentation time, medical errors and of course the staff volume.

The EMR software is especially meant for doctors or clinicians to store and maintain clinical records of their patients. The EMR application simplifies various types of medical processes in hospitals and reduces the risk of errors too. Moreover, it assures the safety of every patient's medical record, as the information is accessed only after re-login to EMR. Hence, under the HIPAA, the doctors can secure all medical records of their patients.

The EHR applications are generally used by health care insurance companies to store abstract, financially more focused information. The EMR software is data source for EHR. The data in EMR software about particular patient can be accessed by patients, health care providers, payers or insurers through EHR software. Thus, both software are equally important for health care industry, as a whole, as they provide efficient solutions for all simple and complicated health care processes.

Today, you can find countless software companies, working on EMR and EHR applications at affordable prices. Sometimes, selecting the software matching to your practice can be challenging hence, some companies may offer free trial of these software. This can help you to understand how worth the product is. Moreover, make sure the company is offering you a 24x7 technical support to immediately fix up the problem in case of crash.

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Healthcare Smartphone Apps Bring Healthcare Tips on your Palm

Facing any health issue? Not feeling well?

Don’t worry; let your smartphone help you!

Heyee! Don’t get surprised here or let a big question mark appear on your face.

It’s not a novel thing now as thousands of smartphone users do this, and many more to add to this every day. Hence, developers at host of software companies are busy in creating more and more healthcare applications each day. With these healthcare apps for smartphones our phones have turned into portable healthcare tools.

This has made healthcare market to see dramatic growth in the year 2011. 2012 is also depicting the same graph. It was predicted that the market for healthcare smartphone applications will be up to around US$ 1.3 billion this year which was recorded US$ 718 million in 2011.

There are a variety of healthcare apps in the market for smartphone applications. Some of them offer healthcare advices and related information on a number of topics and issues such as how and where to find a doctor for specific issue, how to treat an emergency health trouble, find the location of hospital or dispensary, get exercise instructions and much more.

Having a quick and easy access to manage and diagnose your health issues through your smartphone will of course help you gain and maintain better health learning more about your medical challenges.

Following are the few of thousand healthcare smartphone apps:

Pre-Pregnancy and Pregnancy Apps for your Smartphone: You can find a number of apps to manage a healthy pregnancy or pre-pregnancy if you are pregnant now or expect to be pregnant in the future. You can find plenty of great apps to help you manage a healthy pregnancy or pre-pregnancy.

Smartphone Applications for Mental Health: If you are feeling depressed and wonder if you need to see a counsellor or therapist, various smartphone apps for mental health will help you.

Best Health and Fitness Apps for Smartphone: You can learn a lot from smartphone apps created for fitness as fitness is one of the most popular categories of smartphone apps. It helps you learn about heart rates and walking tours, even to measure your footsteps and mileage.

‘How to Manage your Child's Health’ Apps for Parents: These apps help all the parents to keep an eye on the titbits regarding kids’ healthcare. Right from well-baby visits to updated vaccinations to sports, physical exams; everything you can find an application for.

Healthcare Smartphone Apps for Pets: Yes, even your cutie puppy or naughty pussy cat can get in on the action. You can get many Smartphone Apps for your Pets’ healthcare.

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