PACS – Cloud Computing and Healthcare
There’s been a lot of talk lately regarding Cloud Computing for healthcare. An organization basically outsources the management, hosting and storage of applications and data to a third party. The...
View ArticlePACSGEAR – Cloud Computing For Healthcare
PACSGEAR has recently added a new feature to their MediaWriter product line. MediaWriter enables users to write medical images to CDs or DVDs. The latest feature enables MediaWriter for ‘cloud...
View ArticleHealthcare Cloud Computing With Merge Honeycomb
With over 90% of all healthcare related data being image storage, Merge Healthcare believes the ease of image availability and exchange are essential for quality care. Merge Honeycomb cloud-based...
View ArticleCloud Failures Cost Millions Of Dollars
As of late many pundits have been professing the benefits of cloud computing such as; reduced capital equipment purchase, scale ability, reduced management costs and having fixed costs. The...
View ArticleOnly 26% Of Healthcare Organizations Have A Tested DR Plan
BridgeHead Software conducted a recent survey of 158 healthcare executives in the United States and the United Kingdom asking about their data-management plans. Some of the findings were very...
View ArticleAmazon – Problems In The Cloud
By now many people have heard about the recent outage over at Amazon. The extended outage was originally thought to be a result of the major lightening storm that knocked out power to one of it’s...
View ArticleKLAS Study Says More Providers Looking At VNAs
A report from KLAS found that most healthcare providers were devising strategies for enterprise access of medical images. The study from KLAS called Enterprise Imaging 2012: Provider’s Strategies and...
View ArticleAmazon Glacier Storage For Healthcare
Although Amazon has been in the cloud computing arena for some time now, they have recently introduced a cloud computing solution for the masses. As the ‘Glacier’ name suggests, the service is able to...
View ArticleGood-bye RAID 6
In 2010, Robin Harris wrote that “RAID 6 will stop working in 2019”. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise: Harris had previously commented that RAID 5 would stop working in 2009. And, sure enough, RAID...
View ArticleGenomics Driven Healthcare A Challenge For EMRs
Currrent Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) systems are incapable of handling the genomic data, however some of the system may be able to be modified to support genomics clinical decision support (CDS)...
View ArticleFiber networks and cloud changing healthcare IT
Fiber networks and cloud computing and changing Healthcare IT. Lafayette boasts a high-speed fiber optic network, LUS Fiber, which gives it an edge over many other small cities. The network’s bandwidth...
View ArticleHealthcare Needs Cloud Computing
Regulatory compliance for the healthcare industry is a hot-button issue. The overriding compliance requirements that this industry faces are dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and...
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