Chuck Swanson

Relocating a Data Center? Better Have a Proven Methodology at the Ready

Businesses today rely heavily (perhaps too heavily) on technology and data. Think about all the electronic documentation, databases, electronic transactions, and digital images that are stored on your IT infrastructure and how important they are to everyd... Read >

Joint Replacement Surgery Decisions… Where to Go?

Health tourism, medical tourism, call it what you want but the idea of leaving the U.S. for orthopedic procedures such as knee replacement surgery or hip replacement surgery – any joint replacement surgery really – is fast becoming not only an option, but... Read >

5 Reasons New Zealand Should Be On Your Travel Destination List

As the youngest country in the World, New Zealand has a ton to offer – fabulous scenery, friendly people, a deep and rich culture, and world class infrastructure and accommodations. For these reasons and more, Conde Nast Traveler magazine named New Zealan... Read >

5 Excuses That Stop People From Getting Important Joint Replacement Surgery

Many people need hip replacement surgery, hip resurfacing surgery, or knee replacement surgery and they know it. Their doctor has diagnosed the need for orthopedic surgery; they’ve researched their options but they just aren’t doing anything about it. The... Read >

Second Opinions for Orthopedic Surgery a Must

Major surgeries such as hip resurfacing, hip replacement or knee replacement are quite common these days, and expected to increase as the older population becomes larger. What’s more, you don’t need health insurance coverage to get these surgeries perform... Read >

US Healthcare Reform to Affect Health Tourism

Now that U.S. Healthcare Reform has passed it’s time to take a look at how it will affect insurance costs and ultimately health tourism. At its core, US Healthcare Reform was supposed to reduce medical costs, making health insurance more affordable to eve... Read >

Demand for Knee and Hip Replacements Push New Surgery Options

People are getting knee and hip replacement surgeries at a younger and younger age, creating a trend that is pushing alternative orthopedic surgery options. A study put out by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons supports this claim suggesting that... Read >

5 Server Virtualization Challenges

Server virtualization is a business strategy that is here to stay and that offers many considerable organizational benefits. You can consolidate application workloads that are running on underutilized servers which can result in reductions in hardware cos... Read >

4 Tips to Making Health Tourism Less Scary

Many peoples’ first thought when they think of health or medical tourism is “scary", and while some medical destinations may be out of some peoples’ comfort zones the one common post-trip comment tends to be, “I wish I hadn’t waited so long!" There are t... Read >

Superbug NDM-1 Makes Health Tourism Destination Selection Critical

Medical or health tourism is growing trend for people in the United States and it should be. The U.S. healthcare system is effectively broken and the price tag for procedures like knee replacement surgery, hip replacement surgery, hip resurfacing surgery,... Read >

The Medical Tourism Spotlight is on New Zealand

If you’re living with chronic knee or hip pain at night, or are seeking hip or knee pain relief, then you’ve probably already visited a doctor. Depending on your condition he may have recommended hip replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery or hip re... Read >

5 Data Deduplication Best Practices

Studies suggest that organizations that have multiple copies of data buy, administer and use two to fifty times the amount of storage space they’d need with data deduplication. It’s no wonder than data redundancy is a major contributor to explosive data g... Read >

Process Efficiency and the Need for Health Data Integration

The healthcare industry is generally behind other organizations in terms of IT usage, but there is a ton of pressure now from health plans, consumers, and the government; increasingly strict reporting and compliance requirements; and an overall healthcare... Read >

Virtualized Servers and Data Protection: The Right Approach

According to widely published Gartner data, about 16% of workloads were virtualized in 2009. Although we can attribute some of that percentage to the usual early technology adopters and IT-savvy companies, researchers conservatively estimate that 50% of w... Read >

Beyond the Single Sign-On to a Unified View of Patient Data

As a result of multiple patient care disciplines, departments and locations, patient data currently resides in individual silos – many containing large amounts of data. Yet, the need to access this patient information and share it is increasing at a rate ... Read >