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The Best Approach to Healthcare Content Management - A Frost & Sullivan Analyst Perspective

Healthcare information growth is unrelenting. Much of this information - up to 80 percent - is unstructured and often inaccessible to existing systems. Retention policies, legal discovery requests, and regulatory requirements add to the challenge. Successfully managing healthcare information is a critical part of providing quality care, increasing clinician satisfaction,...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, EMC Corp., Frost & Sullivan, Healthcare Information Growth, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Webcasts 2009-07-15

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EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Improves Visibility and Extends Reporting With Integrated Financial System

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. wanted to integrate disparate financial systems - resulting from rapid growth through several acquisitions - for more visibility and enable the organization to record financial information from various systems in a single location. The challenge was to accelerate and improve the level of detail in...

Tags: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial System, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-09-01

Mobile Solution Helps Caregivers Stay Connected and Responsive to Patients' Needs

The growth of patient information has made it increasingly difficult for healthcare professionals to access patient-related data and make informed decisions quickly. At The Nebraska Medical Center TNMC, slow paper-based processes were contributing to physician frustration and low employee satisfaction scores. In 2004, TNMC staff worked with the Healthcare business...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Health Care, Connected Corp., Wireless, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-07-14

What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?

A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, SoftwareAG, OpenText, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-06

SDI Delivers Business Intelligence: Scalable Server Architecture Accommodates Processing Growth and Ensures High-Quality Service

The source to which the world's top pharmaceutical and healthcare companies turn for complex data analytics and professional services, SDI has long relied on technology to help it compile, process, and transform raw data into actionable, client-specific information. It needed to update an existing server infrastructure to accommodate additional data...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Data-processing, Server, SDI, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

What Obama can do for and to open source

What Obama can do for and to open sourceSorry we let you down.It doesn't surprise me though. We are very focused on our agendas. The Obama Administration presents a large field of issues. The only thing I can say so far is that his choice to fill...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Obama, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Tech vendors: We're ready to help you spend Obama's stimulus money

If you don't think tech will be one of the first sectors to recover from the current economic conditions, think again. Technology taps into pretty much every sector out there - from manufacturing and health care to education and energy. Many of the businesses in those sectors...

Tags: ARRA, Dell Computer Corp., E-health, Electronic Health Record, Healthcare, IBM Global Financing, Information Technology, Investment, Management, Sam Diaz, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-01

PediSuite 7.0 (Mobile)

PediSuite provides comprehensive pediatric information in fifteen easy to navigate sections modules. It enables the user to perform instant calculations for drug dosages, antibiotics, critical care drips, code drugs, fluids, toxicology, and growth charts. All types of healthcare providers including Physicians, Pharmacists, Paramedics, and Nurses have been able to reduce...

Tags: Mobile, Module, PediSuite, Search, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-11-17

CHG Healthcare Services Saves Time and Supports Company Growth With Upgraded ERP Solution

CHG Healthcare Services wanted to provide a scalable IT system to handle the growing number of users and large quantity of personnel data resulting from accelerated company growth. The challenge was to automate accounting functions to reduce time spent re-keying information for general ledger journal entries and provides support resources...

Tags: Accounting, Oracle Corp., ERP, CHG Healthcare Service, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Case studies 2008-11-01

Self Service and Just-in-Time Supply Management Make Northwestern Memorial's Clinicians More Efficient, Achieves ROI in Three Years

A supply chain without cost controls can affect a healthcare provider's financial stability, so Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago uses a materials management system to ensure its fiscal health. Carefully selected information systems have contributed to Northwestern Memorial's recent success. In 1999, when the hospital realized its back office functionality...

Tags: Oracle Corp., ROI, Health Care, Back-office, JIT, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Roi/Tco, Benefits, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-11-01

Healthcare and Cybercrime - The Risks, the Impact and the Solution

Off late digital information age "Data equals money." As a result, cybercrime has evolved into a booming worldwide business. Viruses, malware and online crime have moved from vandalistic hacking into a major shadow economy that closely mimics the real business world, including profit-driven organized cybercrime. Money is driving the growth...

Tags: Cybercrime, Finjan Software Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Human Resources

White papers 2008-08-01

Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE â€" If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you’ll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called “Redneck Riviera,” at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. â€" No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Finjan uncovers half a gigabyte of stolen data on crimeware servers

Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center has uncovered a half of gigabyte of stolen data from US Healthcare organizations and from a major airline on crimeware servers in Argentina and Malaysia. A representative of Finjan stated: "Hackers incorporated sophisticated attacks using crimeware toolkits, Trojans, and Command and...

Tags: Web, Patient, Data, Finjan Software Inc., Health Care, Server, Cybercriminal, Crimeserver, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Social Security, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Government, Marketing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-18

NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun

NHS Tayside provides primary care and secondary healthcare services to a population of approximately 400,000 in the Tayside region of Scotland. The company's challenge was to accommodate rapid growth of information to minimize risks of catastrophic data loss. They wanted to support heterogeneous hardware and software environment and reduce cost...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., NHS Tayside, Storage Management, Servers, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2007-12-01

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?If any proof were neededthat this is the next big land rush, with enormous amounts of money at stake, this is it. Aside from sports [1], the only reason ASU ever does [b]anything[/b] is if the Administration sees boatloads of money...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Michael Crow, ASU, electronic health record, e-health

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Atrium Medical Corporation Integrates Systems and Improves Inventory Visibility to Support Growth

Founded in 1981, Atrium Medical Corporation is a diversified healthcare technology company known for developing quality medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The company wanted to replace legacy system with an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system that can support continued growth as well as multi-entity and multi-currency...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Inventory, Human Resource Management (HRM), Hardware Upgrade, Organizational Structure, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Software

Case studies 2007-09-01

Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physicians

San Francisco-based startup Practice Fusion is hoping to do for medical practice management and electronic health records EHR what salesforce.com did for CRM. Practice Fusion is on demand suite of physician applications that includes practice management including claims and billing, electronic medical records, scheduling and a patient portal. ...

Tags: Patient, Physician, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Practice Fusion, Ryan Howard, Electronic Health Records System, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-03-16

What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?

What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?If it's so profitable and such a great idea...Why hasn't any other major software vendor done it? CA isn't in health software. Nor is Symantec. Nor IBM, Google, etc. So if it's just a matter of being a good business, why isn't every software vendor...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2007-02-26

What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?

Microsoft actively targets more than a dozen major vertical markets when designing and developing products. Financial services, education, government, hospitality, manufacturing -- all the usual suspects are represented. Then theres healthcare. Microsoft treats healthcare like any of its other big verticals, with one major difference: The company also wants...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-02-26