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Great Cloud Migration Opens Data Opportunities
By Alex Woodie-We’re in the midst of a massive cloud migration at the moment, as companies look to take advantage of the scalability and simplicity of storing and processing data in the cloud. But connecting the dots between on-premise data sources and AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure repositories is easier said than done. That’s also […]
7 supply chain predictions for healthcare in 2019
Beth Jones Sanborn, Managing Editor As 2018 gives way to 2019, margins for hospitals continue to shrink, and healthcare systems are becoming increasingly focused on supply chain. Reimbursements are changing thanks to Medicare and Medicaid reform and labor is the number one spend for hospitals at 33 percent of budget. This is an area with less […]
Top 5 Healthcare Technologies of the Future
By Donna Marbury As healthcare technology continue to rapidly advance, it is important for executives to be aware of those that will make running a healthcare organization more efficient and impactful. Though many technology advances have bells and whistles, those that can make patient satisfaction and cost savings a priority are the most important to […]
AI a big data benefit for moving to the cloud for healthcare
By Shaun Sutner. Providers and big vendors are wary, but healthcare in the cloud and the benefits artificial intelligence provides will spur a shift from on-premises systems for analyzing EHRs. It looks more and more like no one can stop the forward march of cloud in healthcare and the benefits that artificial intelligence and machine […]
How telehealth can improve the hospital revenue cycle
By Jeff Lagasse-Among the lesser-known benefits of telehealth are its abilities to help hospitals strengthen a provider’s billing and payment collections. Many virtues of telehealth are widely understood at this point but a perhaps lesser known emerging use for the platforms is to streamline the revenue cycle by enhancing billing and payment collections. That’s becoming […]
SnapClinical driving down cost of ‘virtual’ clinical trials
Running clinical trials is an expensive business for Big Pharma and SnapClinical can reduce the development time up to 10 X with easy to use drop and drag application middleware platform. For example, I read that Novartis is aiming is to expand the number of ‘virtual’ trials it runs, with patients interacting with investigators via […]
Mercy Health: Innovation in the cloud with NucleusHealth
Mercy Health demonstrated innovation in the cloud with NucleusHealth’s medical image management platform. Mercy Health was able to transition its hospitals from an antiquated CD burning system to an intuitive cloud-based solution. The new solution immediately provided cost and time savings along with increased patient satisfaction. Mercy Health can now provide accurate, speedy images to […]
Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Enabling the Future
By Hector Rodriguez, Chief Security Officer, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Last year, we explored Microsoft’s approach to health security, privacy, and compliance in the cloud as we experienced an increased demand for public cloud and hybrid cloud services. Given Microsoft’s leadership in supporting the required services coupled with the required levels of security, privacy, and compliance […]
