IBM, i3ARCHIVE improve patient care

i3ARCHIVE and IBM have joined forces to market commercial disaster recovery and business continuity service to the medical imaging industry. The mission is to build focus on the benefits that i3ARCHIVE`s On Demand can provide to the healthcare industry, according to a release on NAMCT Newswire.

The joint venture may set a new standard in the healthcare industry as physicians strive to improve the quality of service that is given to their patients. This is a big move for the healthcare industry as they look to initiate more technology into their patient services.

One usage may be for physicians to receive real time information on their patients that may be in critical condition or prepared to deliver a baby. The more timely the information that a physician receives the better service a patient gets, that may result in them saving more lives.

The number of companies that have developed formal business continuity management programmes within the last six years has nearly tripled, according to a new survey by the Security Services & Privacy practice of Deloitte & Touche and the CPM Group, says a statement released by PR Newswire.

Whereas just 30% of organisations had corporate business continuity plans in place six years ago, more than 83 % of 273 survey respondents representing a cross section of industries say they now have formal business continuity plans, according to a Deloitte & Touche statement.

Within the last year alone, 70% of respondents reported having business continuity management programmes for most, if not all, of their critical business functions, up from 41% a year ago.

Businesses making plans to weather a future influenza pandemic need to anticipate myriad knock-on problems that mass illness in society and in individual workforces would create, a US conference aimed at accelerating business continuity planning heard yesterday, reports CBC News.

Planners need to consider things such as whether Internet servers have sufficient surge capacity, whether the already stretched shipping industry can move essential goods in a period of substantial sickness and whether employees will be able to access automatically deposited pay cheques if power outages put bank machines out of service.

More than 300 participants from roughly 200 US and multinational companies are taking part in the meeting, which has drawn a roster of speakers from a diverse range of business sectors, including the financial industry, the law and health-care delivery.