04.01.05 Volume 2 Edition 4 iMed eNewsletter

The voice for the medical software reseller community.

 Top Story:  5 Keys to Working With Resellers

In recent months it has become more and more apparent that some vendors don't understand many of the most important details about working with their independent salespeople known as "resellers."  Medical software and hardware resellers come from different backgrounds.  Some resellers were small or large IT companies who have expanded into this vertical market.  Others come from a medical billing background or may even have worked in a medical office.  More.

InvestMed News Alerts
03.25.05 - Burdick speaking in User Adoption Track at TEPR'05

03.10.05 - Allison Petersen Promoted to InvestMed VP of Sales

 Product Spotlight:  InvestMed Patient Kiosk
"Once upon a time in a doctor’s office, new patients would fill out several detailed forms by hand.  Once finished they would hand their often illegible forms to an employee who would begin the arduous task of manually entering the information into a computer system.  Paper was wasted, errors in data entry were made, and inefficiency reigned.  Now all that has changed.  With InvestMed's Patient Kiosk, patients enter their own information safely and securely into your existing practice management system."  More.
 Quote-of-the-Month
"It is time to accelerate the IT revolution as it relates to healthcare!" -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) at the 2005 National Policy Forum for America's Health Insurance Plans (03.09.05).
 About InvestMed

The InvestMed eNewsletter was developed as a resource for healthcare and technology resellers to receive help, training, and information pertinent to their success.  It addresses a need for communication, information, and education that wasn't currently being addressed by the industry vendors as a whole.  The InvestMed Monthly eNewsletter reaches nearly 7000 healthcare and technology industry professionals each month (via e-mail and the Web) containing articles and information written specifically for their unique market.  Additionally, InvestMed has branched out into developing solutions for problems that the vendors in the marketplace haven't addressed; solutions like InvestMed's Patient Kiosk.

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 HIPAA Corner:  On Vacation
Check back next month when the HIPAA Corner will return with the rest of the article, The Top 12 Security Controls (Part 2).
Dollars & Sense Financial Corner

What's your credit score?  Automated credit scoring is based on proprietary statistical models and there’s little hope consumers will ever fully understand why they’ve been allocated one score over another.  Logic tells us how the system should work, but the reality is automated credit scoring remains a mystery. More.

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 Industry News
Recent News that Might Affect Your Business

03.30.05 - NDCHealth Corp. up for sale

03.30.05 - Comdex Trade Show Cancelled Again

03.25.05 - Newspapers Examine Issues Related to Adoption of Electronic Medical Records, USA

03.23.05 - News Bits: Fujitsu S7020, New Tablet PC Pics, Intel on Time, Dell Inspiron 1200

03.20.05 - Local doctors struggle to embrace electronics

03.17.05 - Patient information systems spawn surprising number of medical errors

03.11.05 - Bipartisan Focus Is Seen On Healthcare Information Tech

03.03.05 - Portable EMRs Are Still to Come

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