Lea M. Sims supports Verizon’s Global Strategies team as a healthcare strategist with more than 25 years’ experience in clinical documentation and health information management. Sims is an experienced healthcare writer, author of multiple technical standards manuals for clinical documentation, and currently chairs the Credentialing Commission for Healthcare Documentation (CCHD), the certification body for healthcare documentation specialists.
Almost everyone in my family got a techie gadget for Christmas. My oldest son got a portable vibration speaker system that turns just about anything — a cup, a bowl, a lampshade—into a speaker. My daughter spent the holidays in SnapChat-Instagram bliss on her new iPhone and like many Americans heading into a resolution-filled New […]
Connectivity. Security. Engagement. This is our daily mantra at Verizon, especially on our healthcare team, where addressing the challenges and gaps in these three areas has become our core development focus. In my previous installment in this series (Fixing the Disconnect in Healthcare), I shared the importance of strong, reliable connectivity as the starting point […]
The home care industry is booming. As Baby Boomers age and more families seek in-home solutions for loved ones, demand for home care services is at an all-time high.
Healthcare has a connectivity problem. You might think I’m talking about cellular service coverage, Internet bandwidth or network integration, but telecommunications infrastructure is only a small part of the problem. Connectivity simply refers to the state of being connected, but there is a pervasive disconnect everywhere you look in health care. Many patients are disconnected […]