How Will "Cloud" Databases Help Healthcare Providers?
Internet-based databases offer significant computing capabilities to organizations without creating the need for a complex data infrastructure.
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Internet-based databases offer significant computing capabilities to organizations without creating the need for a complex data infrastructure.
It's not the data that's the problem. It's the people. So says a fascinating article in the winter 2011 issue of “MIT Sloan Management Review” (http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2011/winter/52205/big-…). This extensive article written by several IBM researchers explores how organizations are utilizing analytics to differentiate themselves from their competitors and to become top performers in their industries. The article profiles results of a massive survey of more than 3000 business executives in mu
Check out this website: http://www.extormity.com/index.php/extormity-knows-best for a parady of electronic health records systems that create such complexity in a medical practice that they crowd out the actual practice of medicine. The site was developed by the maker of manual records systems, so it's obviously not unbiased, but it probably shares the sentiments of many organizations that have attempted to implement EMR systems.