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• When implementing VDI, look to storage enhancements

  Hospitals looking at virtual desktop infrastructure can gain an ally in improved storage capabilities. Flash storage, in particular, has proved useful when implementing VDI. Continue Reading

• Reviving your modern health IT infrastructure

  Infrastructure projects in healthcare organizations seem to be enjoying attention. Cloud, virtualization and hyper-converged technology continue to gain interest. Continue Reading

• Explaining hyper-converged vs. converged infrastructures in healthcare

  A hospital details why hyper-convergence saved it money while boosting staff network access. The pros and cons of hyper-converged and converged options are also described. Continue Reading

• Virtual desktop technology mobilizes healthcare

  Virtual desktop systems host a desktop operating system within a virtual machine that runs on a central server.

  With healthcare organizations, IT managers approve of desktop virtualization's merits in streamlining application installations and ... Continue Reading

• Healthcare IoT applications expand patient care possibilities

  In this issue of Pulse, SearchHealthIT writers examine healthcare IoT applications and share how IoT technology influences patient care, from perspectives of patients and providers.

  First, Scott Wallask draws the line between healthcare ... Continue Reading

• Storage technology in healthcare can aid app performance

  Storage is the component that affects virtual desktop performance and virtual application performance more than any other. Here are considerations for hospitals.Continue Reading

• Virtualization in healthcare organizations streamlines IT management

  Scott Wallask, editorial director for SearchHealthIT, leads off this handbook by interviewing a former healthcare CIO, who lends support to the idea that an enterprise-wide virtual desktop infrastructure implementation can be beneficial to ...Continue Reading

• More healthcare VDI deployments in industry's future

  The number of implementations of VDI in healthcare facilities is expected to keep growing in the coming years, thanks to recent strides made in the virtualization market.Continue Reading

• Where the vendor neutral archive stands in medical imaging

  Vendor neutral archives were touted as replacements for PACS for medical specialties in need of image storage. This guide explains how far VNAs have come in reaching that goal.Continue Reading

• Paper health records slowly being phased out by hospitals

  Paper health records and other forms are frequently scanned into hospitals' electronic systems. Find out why an organization hired a third party to do its scanning.Continue Reading

• Make patient documentation more flexible with SharePoint

  Enterprise content management systems, such as Microsoft's SharePoint, can aid clinical staff with patient documentation tasks.Continue Reading

• How healthcare executives can safely use clinical data

  Healthcare executives and IT departments shouldn't neglect protecting the growing amount of data that's at their disposal.Continue Reading

• Wearable health technology in medical and consumer arenas

  The future of wearable health technology in the medical space may depend on if providers can make a business case for the use mobile devices.Continue Reading

• Providers work for security in healthcare, lock down mobile devices

  With mobile devices proliferating -- and security in healthcare lacking -- providers are ramping up efforts to better safeguard devices and related apps.Continue Reading

• Collect mHealth data and determine what's actionable

  Many vendors offer devices that track and collect mHealth data, but that data hasn't been fully integrated into most patient care situations.Continue Reading