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Why Healthcare Organizations Should Stop Buying Storage
Written by John Lazarus
Federal mandates, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), focus on digitizing health records and help facilitate clinical data exchange to reduce errors, lower costs and improve patient care. As wide Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption will boost storage growth, patient care will increasingly depend on the ability to reliably and easily access these health records. The mandates outlined in the ARRA ensure that the adoption of EMRs will become more widespread in the coming years. Read more »
Open Source Technology in Healthcare
Open source is an innovative software development approach that allows accessibility to a software’s source code to the general public, under moderate or zero copyright limitations. By providing access to the software source code, an open source project provides an opportunity for designing, modifying, customizing, and distributing the software. This helps the users overcome the challenges of product rigidity, vendor lock-in, complex licensing terms, as well as cost related issues. Read more »
Newsmakers
ALERT: Axolotl Secures Public Sector HIE Deal
Axolotl Corporation and Memorial Healthcare System of Florida have entered into an agreement, as a part of which, the former will deliver its Elysium® Exchange... Read more »
Vendor Watch
Intel Health Guide Enters UK Market with GE-Intel Alliance Expansion
With an intention to aid care providers in addressing the increase in chronic diseases and conditions associated with the aging population, GE Healthcare and Intel... Read more »
Partners & Alliances
MEDecision and InSite One Partner to Support Image-enabled Health Information Exchange
Leveraging the 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference platform, MEDecision, Inc., the healthcare... Read more »
Products & Solutions
ALERT: HHS Awards IT Services Contract to CSC
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded an Information Technology Infrastructure Operations indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ)... Read more »
Mergers & Acquisitions
Microsoft’s Proposed Acquisition of Sentillion to Enhance Healthcare Connectivity
Microsoft Corporation has expressed its intention to acquire Sentillion Inc., in order to facilitate caregivers with the ease in delivering quality care through... Read more »
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