Healthcare providers are considering a growing number of digitally enabled devices that have the potential to dramatically improve clinical care while driving down costs. These devices offer providers a major opportunity to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) in coming years. Although discussions about IoT typically focus on data analytics and clinical use cases, healthcare…

In 2013, global digital data weighed in at 4.4 zettabytes (a zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes). IDC predicts that figure will leap to 180 zettabytes by 2025. The amount of data that organizations must manage is growing in size, complexity and value. Unfortunately, while most organizations feel that growth and complexity, they don’t see comparable…

Hospitals no longer have the characterization of being dark, decrepit, scary places where you put off going – yes, even for that annual wellness exam.  In fact, some healthcare entities and hospitals are more like hotels, competing for patients, doctors and the reputation of being the Ritz-Carlton of infirmaries. There is no question that health…

Before the world exploded into mobility, the center of the enterprise universe was only seen as the data center. High-end systems would “serve up” applications and data, and all IT employees enjoyed the benefits of a global standard.

Fancy tag lines aside, we have come to an age of data storage like no other in the history of information retrieval. The amount of unstructured data being created on an hourly basis is mind-boggling. This includes video, photos, documents – you name it. Both consumers and businesses alike create terabytes of data and need…

Patient engagement has been called by leading analysts and healthcare professionals “the blockbuster drug of the century.” Why? Because studies have shown that patients actively engaged in their own healthcare have better health outcomes, while at the same time have lower overall health costs. In his August 2012 article, Leonard Kish references studies from Kaiser…