Great healthcare security article from our technology partner Citrix, make sure that your organization is ready to tackle the challenges that are in store. A breach of patient data can be catastrophic, not only from a PR and public image standpoint, but to a hospital’s bottom line, as well. The AMA estimates–conservatively–that the cost […]
Healthcare IT
Cloud Considerations for Healthcare
There are several key factors that must be considered when selecting a cloud provider in the healthcare environment. These factors are strictly unique to healthcare due to the environmental differences the industry presents; in most industries, application availability is measured in dollars, but in healthcare, the availability of an application could literally be life saving. Here […]
The “Cloud” and Healthcare: Match Made in Heaven?
First, what is this “cloud” everyone keeps talking about? The cloud is a new term for a pretty old idea. The cloud simply refers to applications and data running in a data center that is not located on your organizations premises. Back in the day of large mainframes, companies would offer compute cycles of their mainframes […]
Conflicting Applications in a Secure Healthcare Environment
It’s an all too familiar situation for healthcare IT departments. Two primary applications have to be loaded on all PCs in the environment, but they require different versions of the same prerequisite software. Often times Java and Internet Explorer are the culprits but there are many others. How can two conflicting application environments be setup […]
