Healthcare Industry Still Stunted in the Paper Age

Healthcare Electronic Medical Records (EMR)Recently, TechCrunch posted an article on the Healthcare industry pertaining to its’ slower migration towards the electronic age. This week, in response, one of our Sunlight bloggers reflects on this curbed cycle.

In the early 90s, a major insurance carrier in NYC converted their paper files to WORM optical disk, reducing 3 floors of cabinets to 25% of the space. Each insured individual was given a unique barcode, printed on an insurance card. This way documents could be scanned in and associated with that patient’s barcode and additions could be made automatically, eliminating the need for paper handling. Read more of this post

Sunlight, the Sunesys Blog

Welcome to the first edition of Sunlight - a blog on what we at Sunesys feel is going on in the metro telecom industry. Over the next months and throughout the year, Sunlight will try to shed light on the trends in telecommunications in the metro marketplace, whether it be dark fiber, bandwidth services, cloud computing, wireless, wireline, etc.

When we first decided to create a blog, I wasn’t sure what we would write about, and I’m still not sure of all the things we will discuss.  Having spent more years than I care to remember (not due to the business but rather a reflection on my age) in the telecom industry, from the first days in cable TV to the present “cloud”, the one defining thing I can say about our trade is CHANGE!  Every day the communications industry changes and morphs to what is required to meet the demands of a global market.  From applications such as Facebook to cloud computing for commerce, our insatiable demand for bandwidth continues to grow at an astonishing pace. Read more of this post

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