by Dave Wilson on April 16, 2012
Ultimately there are certain minimum requirements that providers need to consider when evaluating a healthcare cloud provider. Without these considerations, providers will put their services at risk and fail to realize the full potential of cloud technology.
by Dave Wilson on April 5, 2012
by Bill Burns on April 2, 2012
As we near the final phases of the HITECH Act in the coming months, I’m starting to see more and more news (and having first hand conversations) as to why this adoption curve is going so slowly—and how it’s really only the first step in providing greater access to clinical information.
by Dave Wilson on March 20, 2012
This is part three in a series on cloud technologies in healthcare. You can read the previous two here.
While many challenges have contributed to slow adoption of the cloud, there are equally as many benefits for providers to embrace this new technology across the enterprise. These benefits encompass both business and clinical areas. In today’s world of cost cutting, many facilities must show clinical benefit in order to justify expenditures, and cloud technologies are potential tools to do just that.
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by Dave Wilson on March 2, 2012
This is part 2 in a series of posts on the role of cloud in improving patient care. Part 1 can be found here.
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.
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