The Role of Cloud in Improving Patient Care
by Dave Wilson on February 14, 2012
This is the first in a series of posts discussing the role that cloud technologies play in the healthcare market.
by Dave Wilson on February 14, 2012
This is the first in a series of posts discussing the role that cloud technologies play in the healthcare market.
by Dave Wilson on December 20, 2011
With all of the talk around the cloud and healthcare’s increasing movement toward adopting cloud technology, there are some issues that any organization must ensure have been addressed that are unique to healthcare. It should be understood that it is because of these issues that some of the healthcare providers lag behind other industries in moving to cloud technologies. Both cloud service providers and healthcare organizations should heed these areas when looking at cloud adoption.
by Dave Wilson on December 12, 2011
Back in 2008, Google launched its health platform - Google Health. It was an attempt to allow patients to control their own health record by uploading records to a Google site, and then granting privileges to their physician—thus making their health record completely portable. They even piloted this at Cleveland Clinic.
by Dave Wilson on December 5, 2011
Renee Stacey, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager of Health and Life Sciences at HDS, accompanied me to RSNA 2011 last week. It was a great show, and Renee asked if she could contribute a recap for the blog. Take it away, Renee…
by Dave Wilson on November 21, 2011
Unstructured data is a major challenge in the life sciences market. Unstructured data, by its very definition, is difficult to analyze as it doesn’t fit into a relational database. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations live and die by their ability to analyze this unstructured data, and studies show that the average company makes decisions based on data that is 14 months old. Companies that can make faster decisions will win the race.
by Dave Wilson on November 7, 2011
Being in the healthcare space my entire career, I had no idea what all the fuss was about when Big Data started to be the topic of the day. Sounded like a large file to me - mammography images can be 60Mb each - and aside from the potential joke about large mammo images, what was the big deal?
by Dave Wilson on October 28, 2011
Now I don’t like to steal titles or concepts from other companies but at my last company we had a concept of a Multi-site Maturity Model and I think the same “maturity model” concept works for healthcare and our cloud offering. It took a little while for this to kick in (thanks to my colleague Linda Xu for helping me see the light) but I think that our vision for where the cloud will take us is most appropriate for healthcare. Let me explain.
by Bill Burns on September 13, 2011
In today’s hypercompetitive healthcare environments, driving cost control is paramount and healthcare providers, payers and vendors must reduce cost while increasing the quality of care. Patient-centric technologies are at the core of the solution. These technologies necessitate clinical integration using health information exchanges and associated components. Hitachi Clinical Repository (HCR) was created to address this enterprise-centric view for all data types, not just medical imaging. HCR is a real time “active” repository thatconsolidates data from a variety of clinical sources to present a unified view of a single patient. It is optimized to allow clinicians to retrieve data for a single patient rather than identify a population of patients with common characteristics or facilitate the management of a specific clinical department.
by Dave Wilson on May 6, 2011
These days it seems you can’t go anywhere without seeing “Cloud” mentioned. Microsoft has their “To the Cloud” commercials on television. The last healthcare tradeshow I attended had cloud messaging everywhere and one vendor even hung fluffy cotton balls from their stand.
by Bill Burns on February 21, 2011
Those of you who are regular readers of this blog will know Dave Wilson as a co-author for Storage STAT. Dave came from the hospital environment, so he really brings a valuable perspective that is customer-centric.
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