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Doctor consulting patient via video call on laptop, illustrating telemedicine and cloud computing in healthcare

Doctors Slow To Embrace Telemedicine, Cloud Computing

One out of four healthcare providers are now using tablets in their practice, with another 21% expecting to do so in the next 12 months, and more than half are using a smartphone at work. These findings are part of CompTIA’s 3rd Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities Study, which relied on separate online surveys with 350 doctors, dentists, and other healthcare providers or administrators and 400 IT firms with healthcare IT practices. CompTIA conducted […]

X-ray result, illustrating cloud sharing of radiology images in trauma care

Cloud Computing Expedites Trauma Care

An electronic, cloud-based approach to sharing radiology files with other medical institutions is expediting the care of UC San Diego Health System trauma patients. The method is currently being used to speed the diagnosis and treatment of patients sent to UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest from remote area hospitals. “The efficiency and reliability of cloud computing is excellent,” said Dr. Jeanne Lee, trauma surgeon at UC San Diego Health System. “It is an advance in […]