Nathan Eddy

Health care organizations are rethinking their reliance on compliance requirements as the primary way to protect patient data, according to a Harris Poll survey of 920 IT decision makers conducted on behalf of Vormetric. The survey results indicate that data protection in healthcare organizations has been driven largely by compliance requirements – 54 percent reported […]

Flir, Netgear, Linksys WiFi Security Cameras Have You Covered by Nathan Eddy Flir’s RapidRecap Shortens the Review Process Based on technology historically used in law enforcement for rapid suspect identification, RapidRecap allows users to simultaneously review a day’s worth of video events in seconds and quickly pinpoint events of interest. Original recordings of interest can […]

M*Modal, which provides clinical documentation and speech understanding systems announced a full suite of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) software and adoption services. The company offers a general-purpose data aggregation, analytics and physician engagement platform configured for CDI, providing a way for hospitals to enhance clinical report quality, productivity and patient outcomes. By using natural language […]

Health care organizations are embracing patient engagement through strategies and investments centered on patient portals, according to a survey of executives from 114 health care organizations. The study, sponsored by InterSystems, found that the top drivers for patient engagement are enhancing the health of the community (77 percent), building brand loyalty among patients (77 percent), […]

Mobile Office 365 adoption is up by 6 percent, from 18 percent to 24 percent, among harmon.ie Mobile users, according to a new report from the mobile collaboration software company. The report was based on usage and activity analysis across 1,500 business users from 800 companies in more than 75 countries using harmon.ie Mobile. The […]

Most organizations have gaping security holes when it comes to protecting themselves against insider threats, according to a SpectorSoft survey of 772 IT security professionals. Nearly a third (32 percent) of respondents said they have no ability to prevent an insider attack, while 52 percent of respondents cannot size the potential damage, and 44 percent […]

More than half (51 percent) of healthcare IT leaders expect their organization’s health care IT budget to increase in 2015. Overall, the figure is down from 2014 when 68 percent forecast an IT budget increase. In 2013, 52 percent said budgets were on the rise, according to a report from TEKsystems. The report is based […]

Businesses need to address the customer engagement preferences of the Millennial demographic or risk going out of business, according to a survey of 1,050 Americans conducted by Conversion Research on behalf of Aspect Software and the Center for Generational Kinetics. More than half (56 percent) of Millennials moved their business from at least one company […]

10 Ways Networking Investments Help Retailers Drive Sales by Nathan Eddy Employee WiFi More Important Than Customer WiFi Almost half the retailers surveyed claimed increased customer loyalty due to deploying in-store employee WiFi, with an associated 3.4 percent increase in sales. The study suggests that providing employee WiFi is an even bigger positive driver than […]

Air travelers in the United States rank time-consuming baggage and security procedures as the top areas for improvement, according to a survey of 1,275 passengers conducted by air transport IT specialist SITA. Passengers ranked in-flight wireless, better real-time flight information and better comparability of airline fares as their top three suggested areas of investment. A […]

ClearData announced Healthcare Managed Cloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The offering enables health care organizations to leverage AWS’ secure framework to safeguard patient health information. “With all of the health care expertise within ClearData, it was a perfect match to offer a health care managed cloud that runs on Amazon Web Services,” Matt Ferrari, […]

Host Analytics announced a new module is available for the company’s Cloud EPM Suite. The new platform, which uses HTML, NoSQL, and in-memory computing technologies, is designed to bridge operational and financial planning processes wherever users work. This includes in Excel spreadsheets or through a Web browser or mobile device with a “write once, run […]