BYOD. It Can Make You Tipsy!
BYOD, short for Bring Your Own Device is the latest headache facing IT departments, especially in the healthcare industry, across the country and around the world.
Doing More With Less
Every healthcare IT department is being asked to do more with less.
Healthcare 2025 and Technology: The Future is Now
What in the healthcare IT crystal ball in the next decade?
Latest Cybercrime is Real-life Hollywood Story
Hollywood’s latest cybercrime drama is playing out… again. Some might say Sony Pictures’ North Korean computer hack attack was just a hard lesson to learn for a big corporation, but word of a ransomware attack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center is taking on life and death consequences. The hospital’s declared a state of emergency and…
Maybe Cloud Washing Complainers Should Just Shut Up!
With apologies to William Shakespeare, “Is a cloud by any other name still a cloud?” It’s a subject that’s been receiving national media attention recently as some manufacturers widen their cloud offerings and the established “cloud players” cry foul, claiming many of these new products are merely re-engineered technology that’s been around for years. They…
The “Hybrid” Nature of Tech Results
The words “virtual cloud” are about the best we can do when summing up the recent spate of quarterly earnings results among leading tech manufacturers. While it’s often difficult to compare apples to oranges (or androids for that matter), a closer look behind the numbers is revealing an interesting trend as it relates to how…
Stop the Hackness!
Are you tired of hearing about security breaches? Tired of hearing that yet another company has been hacked, and hundreds, if not thousands of trusting consumers are once again forced to seek protection for their financial assets? Those that track such things are still totaling the damage for the year, but in the first half of…
New Year’s Resolutions for Healthcare IT
How come New Year’s resolutions always seem to center around dieting and getting in shape? You spend your holiday dinner enjoying all of the spoils of the season and then try to talk yourself into a “lifestyle change” once the ball drops. When it comes to Healthcare IT, what’s a lifestyle change anyway? I might…
An IT Diet for the New Year
How come New Year’s resolutions always seem to center around dieting and getting in shape? You spend your holiday dinner enjoying all of the spoils of the season and then try to talk yourself into a “lifestyle change” once the ball drops. It’s a lot like that around the old IT department too. We’re all…
Whose Line Is It Anyway? It’s not always IT.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston just posted its first budget loss this century. Lahey Health, another Massachusetts hospital network, lost $21M this year. Both are listed as being among this year’s biggest spenders on EPIC as their new electronic health record system. Coincidence? There’s no argument that EHR implementation can be costly. But is it the millions in…