If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008. 

As of 2010, there are nearly three million unique forms of known malicious code, and thousands of new ones are discovered daily. The risk of being infected is greater than ever. The following are 10 common ways malicious code reach your private network that you need to be aware of. 

Medical imaging is achieving phenomenal growth. This advance in patient care comes at a cost - a data explosion and resulting silos of clinical information that threaten to overwhelm your data center. With the Unified Clinical Archive, you can store, access, and share medical files from all your medical imaging applications. 

Scottsdale Medical Imaging has standardized on HP products wherever possible—from business desktop PCs to the servers that support administrative operations and redundant storage arrays that store the vast library of medical images.  Download this case study for additional details on their objective, approach, IT improvements and business benefits. 

This white paper will highlight solutions for application development in globally dispersed organizations. Insights and strategies for maximizing efficiencies in a distributed environment will be presented, along with best practices. 

Gwinnett Medical Center uses the HP storage area network (SAN) to support almost all of its critical clinical and enterprise management applications. Learn how the SAN supports the hospital system’s full range of McKesson applications, including EHR, pharmacy, physician portal, surgical management, PACS and radiology operations. 

This case study examines how MidMichigan Health reduces costs and makes it fast and easy for clinicians to access medical records and healthcare applications so they can spend more time with patients. 

Health care facilities require flexible, reliable storage for ever increasing patient data. This webcast covers the benefits of a converged medical infrastructure, including cost reductions and improvements in scalability and flexibility. 

Software developers write code to power applications that drive today's businesses. Whether you are looking at ubiquitous applications such as Microsoft Word or your own in-house software, chances are that they are not very WAN-friendly. The focus of this paper is to highlight the TCP protocol's shortcomings for WAN transmission purposes. 

Today’s health care organizations face a growing list of challenges. And as the volume of patient data continues to explode, they need imaging solutions that streamline management and help control health care delivery costs. Access this white paper for an outline of imaging solutions that offer efficient data management tools. 

This paper examines recent security breaches such as Stuxnet, and offers best practice measures, especially for the Windows platform, that can help to safeguard private keys so that your company doesn't become tools of malicious hackers. 

While Agile development is designed to increase efficiency, it can also introduce risk as testing cycles get condensed and serious bugs can get overlooked. In this whitepaper, learn how Coverity can help you assure the quality, security and safety of your code in Agile or hybrid development environments. 

Check out this case study to learn how one hospital found an archiving solution that allows the hospital staff to effectively and cost-efficiently back up medical records and patient information. Learn the specs of the storage solution that SGMH implemented, and discover how it saved the company roughly $80,000 over a four year period.