Now that we can access email, Facebook, Twitter and many other of our favorite apps through our phones and tablets, that PC at home is collecting a lot of dust. It’s a trend examined in a new Gartner report, which predicts the “Personal Cloud” will surpass the PC as the “hub of consumers’ digital lives” [...]
EHR Adoption Rises, but Small, Rural Medical Organizations Lag
The country’s shift to a system of electronic health records (EHRs) is showing mixed results, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. On the positive side, physicians reporting the use of any kind of EHR system was 57 percent in 2011, a big jump from the 17 percent reported in 2002. [...]
Natural Gas Could Save Trucking Fleets Thousands
With natural gas prices at a 10-year low, the trucking industry is crunching the numbers to see if it makes sense to convert fleets to natural gas-powered engines. A new report from the Conference Board of Canada paints a positive picture of a potential engine swap. The nonprofit research group says using natural gas instead [...]
U.S. E-Prescription Market to Reach $205 Million in Five Years
The days of carrying a scribbled prescription to your pharmacist may be numbered. As the U.S. builds a national health information infrastructure based on electronic medical records, the market for e-prescription systems is forecast to reach $205 million by 2017, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts. E-prescribing—electronically sending a prescription directly to [...]
Can States Legislate Health Insurance Paperwork Away?
We all know the healthcare industry is suffocating under mountains of paperwork. Providers spend millions of dollars in staff salaries and hardware and software solutions to bring their document management under control. Despite this, it seems like paperwork headaches are here to stay. But wait—how about attacking the paperwork issue from a different angle, using [...]
Business Process Management (BPM) Market to Grow to $5.3 Billion
Mobile computing and the cloud will be major drivers behind Business Process Management (BPM), a field that is expected to command a $5.3 billion market by 2017, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts. Business Process Management is a broad, umbrella term that encompasses a variety of strategies and approaches for re-designing and [...]
Online Tool Measures Red Tape Burden on Banks and Other Financial Institutions
The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee recently unveiled an interesting online tool that helps put in perspective the headache of complying with new regulations imposed on the banking and financial services sectors by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Burden Tracker analyzes the red tape line by line, and calculates an estimated number [...]
White Paper Spotlights Rebate Processing
Rebates are a great tool for product manufacturers and retailers who want to build legions of satisfied, repeat customers. But if the processing of mail-in rebates does not incorporate some sort of digital image capture system, the result can be long turn-around-times and payment hold-ups. When this happens, you’ve just created an army of unhappy [...]
Need for Business Continuity Pushes Deployment of IPv6
Enterprises seem to at last found a reason to upgrade to IPv6, the next-generation communications protocol for the Internet. The motive is all about business continuity: making sure corporate Web services are always available to customers—and employees—whose computers, mobile phones and other devices connect to the Internet with an IPv6 network address. The subject of [...]
Google’s Cloud-Based Vault Aims to Ease Pain of E-Discovery
With a new service designed to make legal preservation and discovery of emails and other data easier and cheaper, Google is hoping more large enterprises will embrace its cloud-based Google Apps for Business suite. Google recently introduced Google Vault, an add-on that archives e-mail and on-the-record instant message chats to meet legal retention rules. The [...]
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10 Business Process Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2012
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EHR Adoption Rises, but Small, Rural Medical Organizations Lag
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Natural Gas Could Save Trucking Fleets Thousands
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U.S. E-Prescription Market to Reach $205 Million in Five Years
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Can States Legislate Health Insurance Paperwork Away?
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