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Connecting End–Users to the EMR – "The Last 100 Feet"
Donald E. Kinser – President & CEO, EDI, Ltd."The Last 100 Feet” represents what is needed in nursing units and other clinical areas to give medical staff efficient, effective, and reliable access to the EMR wherever and whenever they may need it.
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Data Center Assessment - Glossary of Terms
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011A list of terms commonly used in Data Center Assessment.
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Real Time Location Systems – To Leverage or Not to Leverage
Beth Bandi, Vice President of Business DevelopmentIf William Shakespeare's character, Hamlet, were alive today, working as a hospital's Director of IT, he would question, "To leverage or not to leverage my 802.11 network?" and even ponder, "Is this the right move for hospitals to have a "one highway fits all mentality?"
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The Office Space Data Center
Dan Fanning, LEED AP, DC CEP, HCCData centers are obviously complicated and require attention to detail across multiple, interwoven systems. The idea of retrofitting an office environment to support a data center application is daunting at best.
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Early Data Center Planning – Rules of Thumb
Dan Fanning, LEED AP, DC CEP, HCCCritical Load, Essential Load, & Non-Essential Load are explained.
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Questions Every CEO Should Be Asking Their IT Department
Gary Cudmore, HCC, Principal/Lead Data CenterIn order for strategic-level IT planning and execution to be effective, decisions should begin in the boardroom, not the back room. To facilitate this process, CEOs should invite their IT experts to participate in company planning meetings...
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The Bridging Method
Donald E. Kinser, PE, MBA, President & CEOThe Bridging Method is a hybrid of two methods. George Heery believes, “It is so much better for owners that it will become the predominant project delivery method in the next ten years.”
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Top Ten Flaws of Data Center Air Flow
Rob Nash-Boulden, Vice President – EDI, LtdThe Data Center Services professionals at EDI, Ltd. have assembled a list of the ten most severe problems with data center airflow.
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Legislation, Trends, and Our Current Healthcare System
Donald E. Kinser, PE, MBA, President & CEOThe future of healthcare in the US, at least through 2015 or so, will be shaped in a fundamental way by the healthcare industry’s mad dash to achieve “meaningful use” of a “certified” electronic health record (EHR) mandated by the 2009 ARRA/HITECH legislation.