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• 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
• Surgical Services Firm Speeds Search And Retrieval Of Vital Documents With KnowledgeLake

  1/12/2017

  AMSURG has a large presence nationwide. It has more than 250 ASCs in 34 states and provides physician services in 24 states, employing more than 2,800 physicians and other healthcare professionals. This vast network of healthcare facilities and practitioners generates an immense amount of financial documentation, particularly at the end of each month. The methods that the company used in the past for backing up its accounting documents were outdated and inefficient.

• It's Time For Healthcare Organizations To Stop Doubting The Cloud

  7/10/2019

  The American healthcare sector has changed dramatically within the past decade, thanks to wave after wave of technological innovation. Cloud technology, in particular, has transformed healthcare in much the same way it has transformed other industries, allowing organizations of all types and sizes to optimize their IT resources. But healthcare is different from most other industries — even other regulated ones — because healthcare information contains highly sensitive personal data that is some of the most sought-after information by hackers. For this reason, some healthcare organizations have been reluctant to embrace the cloud.

• Enabling A Consumer eHealth Ecosystem With A Continuum of Connectivity

  2/19/2016

  Consumer eHealth is empowering consumers through apps, social media, portals, medical devices, and other means to better manage and influence their health and wellness, access healthcare services, and improve workflows with their caregivers. In combination with mobile health (mHealth) modalities oriented around digital healthcare technologies, such as clinical diagnostics and electronic health record systems, and virtual health capabilities as exemplified by live, asynchronous clinical visits to a healthcare organization, this potent trifecta has the potential to fundamentally create a truly patient-centric ecosystem of health and wellness services. By Eric Abbott, director of product management and health facility technology, ExteNet Systems

• Support Paramount When Switching EHRs

  3/28/2014

  Dr. Richard Long, SVP & CMO at UPMC Hamot acknowledges the benefits of the support UPMC Hamot received from UPMC in regards to the transition, from the planning stage to the “Big Bang” itself. Long notes “over 300” support people in almost every specialty came to UPMC Hamot – spending weeks to months – to make sure the implementation went smoothly.

• It's Time To Rip Off The ETL Band-Aid

  3/3/2016

  It’s time to remove the ETL (extract-transform-load) band-aid, STAT. ETL served an admirable purpose for the last two decades, but today’s volume and complexity of data are overwhelming ETL tools. These technologies that were supposed to solve data problems have now become a hindrance — and it’s time to let them go.