Access and Feeds

Monthly Archives: September 2010

Health Care: NHIT Begin Path to Health Information Exchange

By Dick Weisinger

As part of the push by the Obama administration towards a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIT), we’re seeing activity on a number of fronts.  NHIN is a set of standards, services and policies that will enable Health Information Exchange (HIE).…

Data Effectiveness: Could Your Business Use an Extra $2 Billion?

By Dick Weisinger

Better management and analysis of your data can significantly add to the bottom line, by as much as $2 billion — at least if you’re a Fortune 1000 company, according to a new survey by Sybase and McCombs School of…

Business: Worried about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

By Dick Weisinger

What’s the chance that your organization could be hit with a disaster that would bring down the business for an extended period?  That’s a question all organization need to ask, but it’s a question that is not always addressed.  And…

Cloud Storage: Use Cases that Make Sense

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud storage is the storage of data on virtual servers rather than on dedicated servers.  Advantages of cloud storage is that the use of storage is simplified — storage across many physical servers can be exposed as a single virtual…

Health Care: EHR Certifications Help Answer the $64,000 question

By Dick Weisinger

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced the names of two companies that are now authorized to test and certify electronic health record (EHR) systems.   The first of these companies is the Certification…