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Retiring Legacy Applications: It’s Not All About Cost

Retiring Legacy Applications: It’s Not All About Cost

On average, healthcare organizations across the globe are having to maintain around 300 legacy applications behind the scenes, despite their strategy to use Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems as the primary method of accessing clinical content. In his guest post...

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: How Radiology Can Fight Cyber Crime

WEB EXCLUSIVE: How Radiology Can Fight Cyber Crime

In its second feature (in a 2-part series) after HIMSS17, ITN Online has featured our Vice President of Product Management, Jamie Clifton, on subjects like cyberattacks and any data and/or system-related vulnerabilities healthcare organizations are increasingly facing...

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Legacy Software: Healthcare’s Weak Spot on Security?

Legacy Software: Healthcare’s Weak Spot on Security?

Do you think that you have your hospital's data security buttoned down? Not necessarily, unless you take measures to retire your old and often obsolete legacy IT applications, your healthcare organisation could still remain vulnerable. In this article, our VP product...

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Exclusive: FoIs reveal IT spending in the NHS is increasing

Exclusive: FoIs reveal IT spending in the NHS is increasing

In this publication, you can read about the challenges around public budgets in healthcare, stemming from the NHS IT spending report. Our Vice President for UK and Ireland, Tony Tomkys, is one of the two external industry experts whose view was featured. Read the full...

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A Secure and Paperless NHS? Legacy Applications Have to Go

A Secure and Paperless NHS? Legacy Applications Have to Go

Many healthcare organisations do not realise how many legacy applications they have. Bigger hospitals have 500+ applications, some of which obsolete and/or rarely used just to retain access to the data locked in them or for other compliance reasons. According to Jamie...

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Say Hello to Next-gen Archival Systems – Part II

Say Hello to Next-gen Archival Systems – Part II

This is part 2 of a series, explaining how healthcare organizations can retire their legacy applications and, at the same time, retain access to the data from those legacy and/or obsolete systems. (read Part 1) In part 2, Mike Ball, Senior Vice President , North...

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How Can the NHS Protect Itself Against Cyber Attacks?

How Can the NHS Protect Itself Against Cyber Attacks?

We are happy that our media partners from 'Info Security' have found a recent cybersecurity blog from 17 Nov (by Chris Welch Product Manager, RAPid, BridgeHead Software) interesting and have featured it in their publication. We hope that this useful information will...

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