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• Creating Roadmaps For Surgeons Using The Mac For Better Surgical Navigation

  11/24/2009

  A woman in her forties lies anesthetized on an operating table. The surgical team prepares her torso for surgery, and switches on an overhead projector. By Apple Computer Inc.
• 5 Ways Health IT Shackles Physicians

  7/6/2016

  It seems every week there’s another study documenting the problems physicians have with healthcare IT. The findings invariably are consistent with what the AMA has been saying for the past several years — physicians overwhelmingly dislike EHR systems’ poor usability and interoperability, and resent the extra time they have to spend at the keyboard.

• The Right Population Health Analytics To Transform The Patient Experience

  6/14/2018

  Consider a situation where healthcare is not just an industry term- a situation where EHRs are not an integral part of physicians schedule but just a support to providing care. All considered, imagine a situation where patient-centric care actually involves the patient, and patient engagement is not just a buzzword but a reality. Unfortunately, all these imaginations were supposed to be a reality, but still, healthcare managers and organizations are struggling with the problems such as the lack of patients’ adherence to medication, varying trends in the population health, and a lot more. Patient populations, nowadays, expect the same on-demand delivery convenience from the healthcare organizations as they get from the other companies like Netflix.

• 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
• Big Data, Automation, And Outsourcing: The Key To Providers Profitability

  4/24/2019

  Hospitals are grappling with tighter profit margins each year. As expenses outpace revenue, hospitals nationwide are seeking ways to cut costs without sacrificing their quality of care.

• Is Employee Training The Only Solution Against Phishing In Healthcare?

  3/2/2020

  Healthcare organizations are being bombarded with phishing attacks. Of the 168 hacking incidents against healthcare organizations in the first half of 2019, more than half (52 percent) were phishing attacks, according to the Protenus 2019 Mid-Year Breach Barometer Report. Some of the most newsworthy hacks included UConn Health (326,000 records compromised) and the Oregon Department of Human Services (645,000 records and 2.5 million emails compromised).