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Kindred Healthcare Selects Cisco for New Data Center Storage Network

whitepaper Kindred Healthcare wanted to redesign the SAN environment for next generation requirements and maximize performance to meet ongoing data center needs. Kindred's data center is located at its Kentucky headquarters, with remote servers on a Wide Area...

Tags: switching

[10 May 2008]

Share Data Between Excel and Word Healthcare Forms

whitepaper People working within the healthcare field often collect data in a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 workbook and then need to include some of that information in a form letter or a report created in Microsoft Office Word 2003.

Tags: word processing

[09 May 2008]

Create a Retirement Care Plan

whitepaper But a well-rounded retirement care plan should address other vital elements, including long-term healthcare and estate planning. A financial advisor may need to help the clients and their families plan for the last stage of life.

Tags: finance

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Healthcare Company Simplifies Management, Boosts Protection With New Security Solution

whitepaper Allina Hospitals & Clinics, based in Minnesota, is a large network of hospitals and healthcare facilities. Thousands of Allina employees use a computerized data system to access patient medical records.

Tags: network security

[07 May 2008]

NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun

whitepaper 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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

Healthcare Vendor Moves 90 Percent of New Clients to Software + Services Offering

whitepaper This niche market - typically struggling with rising healthcare costs, lower reimbursements, and increased regulatory requirements - had been overlooked by practice management vendors that target large health institutions with healthy IT budgets.

Tags: application servers

[05 May 2008]

A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Healthcare

whitepaper The shift towards electronic health records makes laptop management and data breach prevention a growing challenge. The loss of one computer puts patient privacy at risk, and exposes organizations to damaging publicity and HIPAA compliance issues.

Tags: asset management, laptop, laptops, tracking

[05 May 2008]

Healthcare Provider Eliminates Office Incompatibilities With Open XML

whitepaper To respect the autonomy of all its users and let them continue using the office suite of their choice, CHU Grenoble recently implemented an architecture based on Open XML Formats. The hospital completely eliminated document exchange issues due to...

Tags: infrastructure management

[05 May 2008]

Healthcare Solution Provider Finds Competitive Advantage in Move From SCO UNIX to Windows

whitepaper American HealthNet wanted to increase ease of use for both the business users and IT staff at its customers; customers neither knew nor wanted to learn SCO UNIX. The company also wanted to expand functionality - both by adding modules for new uses...

Tags: application servers

[04 May 2008]

ParkwayHealth Singapore Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 40%

whitepaper The healthcare provider's existing SAP-based technology platform had proven to be inflexible and costly to maintain. In 2004, ParkwayHealth decided it was time for a complete technology refresh. The organization went to tender for applications...

Tags: erp

[04 May 2008]

Health Sciences Center Integrates Critical Applications, Saves More Than $1 Million

whitepaper The center was using manual procedures to enter and exchange patient data, but healthcare regulations required an electronic method for sharing insurance claim information. University of Utah Health Sciences Center (U of U HSC) wanted to integrate...

Tags: monitoring systems

[04 May 2008]

Erlanger Boosts Back Office Functionality for Improved Patient Care

whitepaper Erlanger Health System wanted to manage a complex supply chain while delivering a spectrum of health services to more than a quarter-million people each year and lower supply costs and ensure better healthcare delivery.

Tags: back-office

[04 May 2008]

Healthcare Group Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 to Better Protect 2 Terabytes of Data

whitepaper Based in Boston, CareGroup is the corporate parent of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and three other area hospitals. CareGroup hosts its data on 390 databases on 30 instances of Microsoft SQL...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

Lower your blood pressure when it comes to securing patient data

whitepaper In this IBM Healthcare Security Executive Kit, you'll learn how to safeguard data more effectively, reduce regulatory compliance risks and lower operating expenses associated with security. This is one healthcare security eKit you need to download...

Tags: network security, equipment, hospital, attacks

[03 May 2008]

11-Hospital Health System Manages Growing Fleet of Laptops

whitepaper As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a way to protect its rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach.

Tags: back-office, asset, health, electronic

[03 May 2008]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has made advances in healthcare that have impacted hundreds of thousands of lives.

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

Teaching Hospital Uses Unified Intelligence System, Improves Education and Patient Care

whitepaper To provide high-quality healthcare to patients and exceptional training, Washington Hospital Center needed an information system that would provide rapid access to current, accurate patient data. Washington Hospital Center, the flagship teaching...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

Data Access Tools Speed Development 500 Percent for Healthcare Software Vendor

whitepaper Accuro Healthcare Solutions wanted to increase the maintainability and performance of the code for its Web-based CarePricer application. It chose to use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition and replace stored procedures and...

Tags: programming languages

[02 May 2008]

Improve patient care by improving the capabilities of your PACS

whitepaper As your healthcare organization makes the transition to digital imaging and recordkeeping, you face a whole new set of technological challenges. The IBM Healthcare Medical Imaging eKit includes three case studies on firms that resolved scalability...

Tags: storage management, imaging, medical imaging, consulting

[02 May 2008]

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