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81. Seeding The Cloud: Who Really Needs Infrastructure-as-a-Service? 9/12/2017

    If you’re a small or midsize medical office – a clinic, a hospital, a medical practice – you should of course be mindful of IT. But you need to keep your mind on your patients. By Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual

82. Executing A Successful Go-Live In A Short-Staffed Environment Requires Planning And Support 9/11/2017

    Only 29 percent of today’s hospitals have fully staffed IT departments even though EHR optimizations or new implementations remain the second-highest priority for these organizations for the next 12 months, according to the latest HIMSS leadership survey. By Dan O’Connor, vice president of client relations, Stoltenberg Consulting

83. Achieving HIPAA Compliance: IT's Indispensable Role 8/30/2017

    In my view, the IT vendor’s proper role is to showcase the powerful economic rationale for those in healthcare to get out of the practice of buying/maintaining hardware that is obsolete practically before the paint is dry. By Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual

84. EU's General Data Protection Regulation Set To Disrupt The Medical Industry 8/29/2017

    When the European Union introduced its plan for regulating online Cloud services, to say it caused a major disruption would most likely be an understatement. By Philip Piletic

85. The 4 As Of IoT: A Four-Step Approach To Integrate IoT 8/28/2017

    The Internet of Things (IoT) is widely heralded as the next big thing. The trend to connect everything to the internet is accelerating unabated with opportunities and implications for every industry — and healthcare is no exception. By Nick Vennaro, co-founder, Capto

86. 5 Reasons E-Signature Is Invaluable 8/21/2017

    Electronic signature is a fast-growing technology in all industries. By Ellen Sluder, VP, Marketing, Medforce Technologies Inc.

87. Document Storage Systems: The Role They Could Play In Healthcare 8/9/2017

    Document storage systems are becoming imperatives in healthcare, particularly as the industry changes in terms of legislation, privatization, and direct care measures. By Jesse Wood, CEO, eFileCabinet

88. Cybersecurity: The Threat Hospitals Can No Longer Ignore 8/7/2017

    Golden Eye/Petya, the latest ransomware attack devastating businesses from shipping companies to banks and even drug manufacturers across the U.K., has brought to the fore the seriousness of cybersecurity and why it is an issue hospitals cannot afford to ignore. In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack crippled nearly a quarter of the hospitals in the U.K. and infected 200,000 computers across 150 countries, providing another stark example of what could happen here in the U.S. By Justin Sotomayor, pharmacy informatics director, CompleteRx

89. The Digitization Of Healthcare Is A One-Way Street 8/3/2017

    Healthcare is about a lot of things. One of those things is information; everything from a patient’s medical history to their current medications, known allergies to insurance, and much more. By Cristian Pascual, co-founder and CEO, Mediktor

90. The High Cost Of Medication Errors 8/1/2017

    Improving the outlook through better management of alert fatigue By Raj Gopalan, MD, MSIS, Vice President of Innovation and Clinical Informatics, Wolters Kluwer