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Healthcare facilities around the world are upgrading their storage technologies to accommodate the expanding sizes of patient files and images, and provide faster access to data for radiologists, physicians, and other caregivers.
When it comes to transferring data from an outdated archive to a newer storage system, however, there is bound to be some angst along the way.
In this issue of the Healthcare IT Insider, discover how to make data migration less painful and allow for minimal -- if any -- disruption in the flow of information from both systems by clicking here.
In other Healthcare IT news, the speech recognition market is experiencing a rapid and sudden consolidation. In the last few weeks, Nuance Communications has completed its acquisition of one vendor, and today completed a deal to purchase a second company.
Nuance announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Vocada, with that firm joining Commissure in the Nuance fold. Click here to find out what Nuance has planned for its expanding product line.
Every healthcare facility in the world wants its information technology to be the newest, most efficient, state-of-the-art product on the market. Finding the financial resources and management support for that investment -- like data migration -- takes thought and planning.
Complicating a new IT purchase is the finite amount of dollars in a given medical center's budget. See how to provide the people who control the purse strings with tangible benefits of an IT investment in this report.
With the month of November comes the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago. Keep a watch on AuntMinnie.com in the coming weeks, as our staff reports on the latest healthcare IT developments, presentations, and papers from this year's conference.
