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• Curing Healthcare's “Tapeworm Effect” With Technology

  3/28/2018

  The joint venture just announced between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. is anticipated to bring profound transformation to the healthcare industry. By joining forces, these three giants hope to leverage their technological, sales, and investment expertise to address and resolve the many inefficiencies in the current U.S. healthcare system. The objective of this partnership is to harness their considerable scale and operational efficiency to manage healthcare’s rapidly growing costs, placing greater emphasis on providing high-value healthcare services.

• 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
• Top Wearable Technology To Keep Seniors Safe

  3/7/2017

  There's so much wearable technology available right now it’s enough to make your head spin if you don’t know what you’re looking for, even for someone who’s knowledgeable. For many, the various capabilities the newest sports watches have are more than enough — text messaging, answering phone calls, even GPS. By Jagger Esch, president and CEO, Elite Insurance Partners LLC

• AI Is Making Traditional Patient Feedback Actionable

  8/6/2018

  Every healthcare organization wants to improve the patient experience. Traditional methods of collecting and monitoring patient feedback fall short of providing healthcare leaders the actionable insights necessary to improve patient experience. To overcome the challenges of continuous improvement, industry leaders need better analytics solutions.

• Mercy's Law — Hope For The Best, Plan For The Worst

  12/3/2015

  EHRs are continuing to transform the healthcare industry for the better — providing critical data to assist physicians, changing how patients are treated, and ultimately improving patient outcomes. As EHRs become a standard of care, clinicians come to count on real-time information, accessible when and where they need and want it. However, as Murphy’s Law states, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. For healthcare organizations relying on EHR systems, it’s not only important that the system perform reliably under optimal conditions — it’s critical the same system works when everything goes wrong. By Dave Nesvisky, Executive Director NetApp Healthcare

• Healthcare Data Breaches In The Age Of HIPAA — A Chronic Or An Acute Condition?

  8/3/2016

  A recent study by the law firm Baker Hostetler revealed more healthcare data breaches occurred in 2015 than any other type of data security event. By Adam Stern, founder, Infinitely Virtual