Developing Healthcare

With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Office of the National Coordinator recently releasing the proposed requirements for Stage 2 Meaningful Use and 2014 certification of electronic health records, hospital executives are looking for viable data storage options to meet their needs. As Stage 2 requirements give way for more sources of data, data [...]

At a medical office conference I attended, influential hospital executives stated that investing their capital in infrastructure needs and health information technology (IT) took priority over building new or renovating existing hospital ancillary facilities. However, the many advantages to  new facility construction support hospital growth strategies and has the potential to help the long term [...]

Datacenters are booming. Demand grew 13% in 2010 and is expected to continue to accelerate according to New York research firm Tier 1. However, demand has outpaced the rate of construction for physical space, thus alternative strategies of data management are being considered.  Hospitals and health systems are evaluating substitute economic efficiencies for storing electronic [...]

Hospitals are aggressively competing to become compliant with the information technology platform proposed by the federal government.  Currently IT communication platforms have a growth rate of 50% annually, and it’s estimated that more than 3 trillion bits of data are created every second. The spectrum of technology and standards for secure, intelligent, flexible and scalable [...]