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• The New Middle Ground – Hybrid Clouds

  11/17/2014

  Without dispute, cloud computing ranks as one of the most significant technological developments in recent years. And like many major advancements, it comes with controversy and challenges. Still being disputed is the suitability of the cloud in compliance-centric industries. Many healthcare organizations still question whether the essential benefits of the cloud – elasticity and quicker deployments – are outweighed by the perceived risks related to security, compliance, and reliability. By Mika Javanainen, senior director of product management, M-Files Corporation

• Technology-Enabled TCM: Making The Most Of 30-Day Transitional Care Windows

  2/15/2018

  The hospital discharge process places patients in a precarious and perilous position. Industry data overwhelmingly backs this reality, fueling national initiatives to improve the outlook on readmissions and adverse events.

• Workplace Safety A Growing Challenge In The Healthcare Industry

  10/25/2017

  Countless systems and processes exist to ensure patient safety — from data privacy to medication checks to infection prevention. Hospital admission means being hooked up to at least one monitoring device, and nurses regularly check vital signs. By Manolito Jones, Healthcare Solutions Team Leader, LockPath

• The Foundation For Healthcare Democratization

  1/27/2016

  The provision of healthcare is a basic human necessity, but access to healthcare is by no means universal. While the U.K.’s National Health Service, Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act in the U.S. and Singapore’s national health system have all succeeded at least in part in bringing affordable health services to more people, truly democratized healthcare is yet to materialize. As connectivity becomes more globally ubiquitous, the prospect of using technology to complement existing healthcare provision has exciting potential for saving lives and democratizing healthcare the world over. By Genius Wong, President, Global Network Services, Cloud and Data Center Services,Tata Communications

• Fragmentation In Healthcare: What A Data Platform Can Do To Help

  2/5/2019

  Faced with limited budgets and resources, healthcare organizations have struggled for years to manage core technology requirements and meet pressing business imperatives. This has led many to focus on their immediate needs with little consideration for how they should or could participate in the broader challenge of healthcare integration and patient care.

• 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.