ADVISORY/OpenReach to Sponsor Webcast on ``Improving Patient Care Through Healthcare Community Networks''.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY... for Wednesday Wednesday: see week. (April 2) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: The availability of high quality, affordable health care is one of the most important issues facing American citizens. And it starts at the community level. From preventative and primary care physicians to acute and long-term care nurses, healthcare practitioners are the lifeblood of every community. OpenReach, Inc. helps healthcare organizations better serve their communities by enabling dynamic access to local, regional, and national resources needed to provide high quality patient care cost effectively. Using OpenReach Services, healthcare providers can collaborate in real-time with remote specialists, obtain patient history at the point-of-care, and access test results immediately. Healthcare organizations benefit from improved patient care and increased operational efficiency while containing the costs of delivering healthcare services and ensuring compliance with HIPAA regulations. WHEN: Wednesday, April 2, 2003 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET WHERE: Register at http://www.openreach.com/hcnc ommunity ABOUT THE WEBCAST: OpenReach Openreach, "a BT Group business", is a division of United Kingdom Telecommunications operator BT Group. The division was created to 'Ensure that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's own local network'. and Nebo Systems invite healthcare executives and press to join a one-hour webcast about ways to improve patient care, reduce medical errors, comply with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, security rules, increase operational efficiency, and lower costs by creating a Healthcare Community Network. OpenReach and Nebo are first to provide a community extranet that allows organizations to both join and connect in one hour, costs hundreds vs. thousands of dollars monthly, empowers local management decisions, and is not governed gov·ern v. gov·erned, gov·ern·ing, gov·erns v.tr. 1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in. 2. by a central organization, which often require costly membership fees. The webcast will feature a real-life real-life adj. Actually happening or having happened; not fictional: a documentary with footage of real-life police chases. case study by Nebo Systems, a leading provider of medical billing software and services to 1,700 healthcare facilities in the Midwest. ABOUT OPENREACH: OpenReach provides hospitals and medical services companies with a low-cost, high-performing IP-based network to securely connect to providers, payers and partners. Companies in medical transcription
Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). and Wireless solutions. Founded in 1999 by former Bell Labs engineers and with 10 patents pending, OpenReach serves 500 customers in 43 countries. Learn more about OpenReach at http://www.openreach.com. |
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