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• Age-In-Place Storage: When Not To Tier And Migrate Active Data

  11/12/2009

  We acknowledge the changes in file reference behavior are subtle, consistent, and complex. There are two ways to “look” at any file on a Unix file system4. The most common is with the file’s path and name, which is exactly what people and most programs do when they open or close a file as we look at a directory structure. Even so, names are not used to mange files. By Randy Chalfant
• The Road To Mainstream Consumer Adoption Of Telehealth

  9/7/2017

  Making healthcare more affordable and accessible is an important mission for our nation, and for all of those who are personally invested in helping change lives. To get there, we must help educate others about, and evolve different attitudes toward, healthcare. By Arif Razvi, co-founder and president, Alvin Healthcare

• Retained Surgical Sponges: A Black Mark Against Whiteboards

  8/2/2016

  Erasable whiteboards are useful for the classroom, where lessons change and teachers need the ability to erase old notes and write new ones with ease. By Dylan Crotty, vice president and general manager, Stryker Surgical

• Dissecting Data Infrastructures That Meet Healthcare's Analytics Needs

  5/31/2016

  Business software systems still largely occupy a world that Oracle built, and those used in the healthcare industry are no different. In this world, there are lots of relational databases that are either transactional or configured as data warehouses. However, the world that artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and cognitive computing occupy looks a lot like the infrastructure of the web. In order to make healthcare data more usable in the AI, machine learning, and cognitive computing world, we need to transition to a different infrastructure.

• How Mobile Technology Is Giving The Healthcare Industry A Renewed Focus On Patient Engagement

  3/10/2016

  With a recent PEW study citing 64 percent of American adults have a smartphone and 50 percent of American adults have an internet connected tablet, it is clear mobile technologies have widespread influence. A number of customer-centric industries including retail, hospitality, and transportation are beginning to leverage the power of mobile consumer engagement, and one of the biggest industries also feeling the effects of a more mobile society is healthcare. With so many healthcare providers looking to increase patient satisfaction rates and engagement rates, HIMSS vendors had a number of solutions on display which can help re-engage with patients expecting a more mobile experience. By Cameron Roche, Research Analyst at VDC Research

• Predictive Analytics And AI Trends Impacting Healthcare IT In 2021

  12/17/2020

  Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics continue to make transformational changes throughout the business world. While healthcare IT is seeing some impacts from AI and machine learning, it lags behind other industry sectors in fully adopting this emerging technology. However, necessity is sometimes the mother of invention, as evidenced by the Coronavirus pandemic still ravaging the planet.