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  1. 70% Of Healthcare Organizations Lack The Resources To Properly Secure Data In The Cloud 7/17/2019

    Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 30 percent of hospital data centers will be based in the cloud. The healthcare sector has traditionally been skeptical about the cloud, but Gartner says that budget pressures and the need to reduce capital expenditure are changing that mindset. Healthcare organizations that migrate their data and services to the cloud must take extra measures to manage and secure those assets effectively.

  2. Building Sustainable PHM Initiatives: 5 Things You Should Expect From An Industry Partner 5/16/2017

    The race is on to effective management of high-risk patient populations. Payers and providers recognize future survival in the fee-for-value world depends on having the right systems in place. By Jack Plotkin, CTO, Virtual Health

  3. AI-Powered DataOps Platform Helps Healthcare Organizations Solve Modern Data Challenges 9/19/2019

    Virtually every major organization these days is a data company. Enterprises are increasingly leveraging data for better products, services, new insights and to manage their business better. This rings true for all industries, but it’s particularly significant in healthcare. According to IDC, healthcare will see data grow faster than any other vertical through 2025.

  4. How To Bridge The Gap Between Healthcare Data Silos 5/3/2019

    The patient journey looks much different today than it did several years ago. From diagnosis to treatment, most patients have many more stops along the way than ever before. They might visit a physician, diagnostic imaging center, hospital, outpatient rehab therapist, and the list goes on, before their care plan is complete. At each point, a patient generates a health record that becomes an imperative piece of his/her healthcare puzzle. And that data has to be accessible and exchangeable across their journey to ensure the best possible outcomes. At least, that’s the goal.

  5. Chronic Disease Management Efficiency: Outcome Analytics Is The Key 9/13/2016

    As chronic diseases account for 86 percent of the U.S. healthcare costs, caregivers are concerned with accurate evaluation of their chronic condition management activities. Accordingly, there is much discussions and research on how to improve health outcomes for chronic patients. However, there is not much written on what precedes actual improvement — that is, medical data analytics where caregivers define, measure, and analyze these outcomes in order to base their progress with clinical processes on real-world data.

  6. How Payspan Conquered The Unique Challenges Of NAS Migrations In Healthcare 4/16/2020

    Complex unstructured data migration tests healthcare payments company.

  7. Applying The Concept Of Preventative Care To Your Virtualized Application Services 1/10/2018

    Healthcare invented the concept of preventative care – the regular analysis of patient health indicators and diagnostics to stay ahead of issues. Practitioners aim to discover health related anomalies in their earliest stages of development in order to treat them quickly before they become life threatening and catastrophic. If we were to extend this principle to the digital services doctors and clinical staff need and use in treating patients, wouldn’t it also make sense to monitor and analyse the application services and underlying networks to stay ahead of slowdowns that could wreak havoc throughout the patient care delivery network?

  8. Italian Pharmacies Align With New Healthcare Tracking Laws Using Bar Code Technology 11/22/2010

    This case study covers how Communal Pharmacies implemented handheld scanners to read bar codes on newly mandated Italian medical prescription pads. By Datalogic Scanning

  9. Automate And Audit Access Rights In A Healthcare Environment 3/3/2017

    Access to critical data is paramount criteria for success in today’s electronic world. Physicians and caregivers need access to patients’ records to insure proper delivery of care, but encumbering employees and internal stakeholders with too many restrictions to systems or complicated access methodologies can have catastrophic consequences.

  10. LED Automation For Increased Efficiency And Patient Well-Being In Healthcare Facilities 10/23/2018

    Hospitals and healthcare facilities are meant to be a place of healing and recuperation which is why thousands of dollars are poured into creating the best patient environment. Hospitals have the unique challenge of meeting very rigorous sanitation, safety and comfort standards which, if not met, can impact the well-being of patients and the efficiency of staff.