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• Health Informatics And The Future Of Healthcare

  2/7/2017

  Healthcare is constantly evolving, and so are the ways physicians are handling patient information. By Scott Rhodes, Vice Provost of Enrollment, Florida Polytechnic University

• Case Study: Adding Disk To Backup

  10/27/2009

  The old Northeast Delta Dental system provided great protection—data was backed up and tapes were taken off-site every day as best practices would dictate—but the system had become fragmented and complex. “We never had time or resources to duplicate tapes, so when we had to restore a file—something we do several times a week—it was extremely slow,” explains Northeast Delta Dental’s Manager of Networking and Technical Support, Dan Kaplan. “We had to get tapes returned from the off-site facility and re-load them to restore anything. It took hours, with significant manual intervention. By Quantum
• 4 Coding Changes Likely To Impact Healthcare Practices In 2019

  2/11/2019

  Medical coding brings consistency to the documentation of treatments, procedures and other care patients receive. Medical coding specialists and other people who handle technical aspects of healthcare and facility management have to stay abreast of upcoming or proposed changes. Here are some of them for providers to keep in mind this year.

• IoT And Healthcare: Is Your Body The Next Target For Hackers

  6/28/2016

  Healthcare cybersecurity primarily focuses on protecting breaches of patients’ private medical data and, more recently, on preventing ransomware attacks that can lock health professionals out of their systems and make electronic medical records inaccessible. However, as wearable and implantable medical devices are developed and grow in popularity, another concern arises: the potential for hackers to actually attack the body of patients.

• The Identity Lifecycle Of Healthcare Workers: Improving Security And Access Management

  3/5/2019

  A survey by Compdata validates what healthcare organizations are experiencing everyday: one of the highest employee turnover rates in an overall job market whose turnover rate is going up every year. The 2018 survey shows healthcare at a total turnover rate of 20.4 percent, bracketed by hospitality, at 31.8 percent and manufacturing and distribution at 20 percent. The implications are clear for healthcare IT and security professionals – a significant part of their job is onboarding new personnel, revising access as personnel change roles, and securely offboarding employees to guard against risk.

• Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Hospital Ensures High Availability In The AWS Cloud With SIOS DataKeeper

  5/6/2020

  SIOS Chosen for its Ability to Deliver both High Availability and High Performance.