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• Pharmaceutical Distributor Cuts Day Of Safety Stock

  5/21/2013

  Scattered across Canada from St. Johns, Newfoundland, on the east coast to Vancouver, BC, on the west coast are 14 warehouses for Medis Health & Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Canada’s leading pharmaceutical distributor. Until last year, warehouse tracking of the pharmaceutical and related items it shipped across the nation was primarily a manual chore. However, over an 18-month period, each warehouse is now being converted to an electronic tracking program. By the time all 14 are automated, Medis expects to eliminate a whole day of safety stock.

• Next Generation House Calls: Technology Paves The Way For Rise In Home Health Care

  3/9/2016

  The Affordable Care Act has been the catalyst for seismic shifts in the healthcare landscape. The associated regulations pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid, value-based outcomes, discharge planning, and home health agencies have created both challenges and opportunities. One of the trends arising from these changes is an increase in home-based healthcare, which is being promoted as a more efficient and effective way to treat the growing elderly population as well as patients with disabilities and chronic conditions

• Data Science Is Becoming Increasingly Automated — And That's Good News For Healthcare

  12/15/2015

  Big Data is playing an increasing role in healthcare, promising lower costs, enhanced diagnoses, and improved doctor-patient matches. To get to the next level, two sea changes — access to medical information and intelligent data solutions — need to accelerate. By Scott Howser, SVP Products, Nutonian

• Case Study: Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia

  9/23/2009

  Doctors are getting lab tests back faster, and that means they’re more efficient. They can ... accept more patients as a result. By Microsoft
• 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?

• Breaches Are All Over The Place. And, So Is Your Cybersecurity Tech Stack

  2/15/2019

  Healthcare systems have built out increasingly complex and overlapping technology stacks. For many years, the focus has been on electronic health records (EHR) systems – how to streamline solutions and achieve interoperability. But, in 2019, the industry needs to turn its attention to cybersecurity solutions.