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Lionel

EHR implementation provider spotlighted.

One of our competitors is doing a great job at seeking new business by not advertising at all.  I wonder how they do it?  (they are not really a direct  competitor  of ours as we service the New York Tristate area mostly, however, we appreciate good business practices from any source). I read about this company, [...]

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Health IT Mobile app that Doctors love. What do you think?

A mobile app that health practitioners are already in love with.

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The Physician’s Guide to Electronic Medical Records Software

A challenge awaits the MD who’s had enough of the tormenting inefficiencies, financial penalties, and archaic practices associated with keeping up a paper-based medical office. Therefore the determination is made to digitalize the practice. Any initial enthusiasm rapidly declines once an initial search for medical software reveals hundreds of products and marketers. It does not [...]

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Turn your waiting rooms into productive space you and your patients will love

So, a recent IBM study suggests that patients are less likely to return for health visits because they are annoyed by having to fill in repetitive paperwork.  There are a few very important points that I’ve gleaned from this study.  Most people, these days, have very little reason to write anything drawn-out by hand unless [...]

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How to Evaluate IT Efficiency Investments in Healthcare Management

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has made available a comprehensive workbook assisting suppliers in getting a grip on the real cost and benefits an IT investment provides. The guidebook walks IT efficiency project managers through the procedure of establishing project goals, including what facets of the technology will need to be measured and [...]

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Save 1 Terabyte of Storage: NetApp Storage & VMware Virtualization Demo

Hey, I found this great video on youtube demonstrating the extraordinary storage savings Deduplication gives you.  Watch and see how almost 1 Terabyte of storage space is created with this technology.      Vmware Virtualization programs and software along with NetApp storage is used to deduplicate one hundred virtual machines saving almost 1 terabyte of storage!   For more information on how [...]

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Is Data Deduplication Important? Why?

 Among the greatest challenges to the data storage community is how to effectively store information without selecting the exact same data and storing over and over again in different locations on the same servers, hard drives, magnetic tape libraries and so forth. There have been numerous efforts to handle these redundancie a few more successful [...]

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Is there a difference between Utility Computing, Grid Computing and Virtualization or do they all mean the same thing?

They’re different aspects and utilizations of a concept instead of the same exact thing. Grid Computing tends to refer (in academia) to the scientific discipline, communications protocols and technologies that enable massively distributed computer systems to be massed across numerous origanisations. Owing to the massive scale of these systems they’re frequently homogenous (i.e. many dissimilar [...]

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What is Deduplication?

   Deduplication (occasionally called Single-Instance Storage, Capacity Optimization or Factoring) represents a data diminution technology designed to do away with redundant (duplicate) data on a storage system by saving just one instance of each piece of data for the purpose of reducing disk space and network bandwidth.There are various types of deduplication technologies: File deduplication [...]

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The Current Economics Of Enterprise Data Security

In Nov 2008, SEPATON, Inc., a supplier of virtual tape library and data deduplication solutions, conducted a survey of US-based companies to define and measure prevalent data protection challenges, business enterprise aims, and technology demands for enterprise data centers. The analysis establishes that in 2009, enterprise data directors are anticipating implement technologies that assist them [...]

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