<p>Read this white paper to learn how medical manufacturers are using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to reduce the costs of their operations as well as justify current prices to insurers based on success rates and patient value.</p> 

During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth. 

This brief paper outlines how Mercury Medical vaulted into the 21st century through implementing IBM Cognos Express for midmarket companies, resulting in a boatload of benefits, including cost and time savings. Read this now to gain more insight into why Mercury sought this solution and learn how you can achieve similar results. 

This E-Book offers expert advice on creating an on-site medical image archive as well as using a cloud storage provider for medical images. Additionally, explore 2 case studies regarding compliant storing and archiving of medical data. 

More and more enterprises are recognising the value of optimising their printing infrastructure through device consolidation, proactive monitoring and ongoing management. 

This buyer case study presents a medical center's deployment and use of NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup. 

Using two of the Intel SS4000-E storage servers mirrored for additional redundancy, Philips has cut about USD 10 thousand off the storage cost for more than one terabyte of data by eliminating the need to buy expensive optical disks. 

This E-Guide from SearchHealthIT.com to highlights some of the most important considerations for implementing an on-site medical image archive. 

This White Paper is presented by IDC Health Insights and sponsored by HP and Intel. 

This case study explores how one health care facility was able to streamline its patient records management with Iron Mountain. Additionally, they were able to reduce costs while improving patient care with timely access to patient data. 

This IDC Buyer Case Study assesses the deployment and use of NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) at the West Jefferson Medical Center. 

Read this white paper to learn how Newell Rubbermaid Inc. improved its use of the available-to-promise (ATP) functionality of the SAP enterprise resource planning (ER) application to better allocate inventory and determine what goods were available to customers, and create even greater supply chain efficiencies. 

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.