There are many ways to improve the performance of applications, and as is usual, the national supercomputer labs and large financial services and energy companies are leading the way in the deployment of various kinds of coprocessors for the distributed applications they run on their clusters. We are particularly interested in a number of key technologies, such as GPU, FPGA, and other kinds of accelerators. To that end, EnterpriseTech, in cooperation with my industry research firm, Gabriel Consulting Group, is surveying users in large enterprises to try to get a sense of which technologies are important to accelerate applications. Equally importantly, we want to grasp why various technologies are not being adopted by specific industries or classes of customers. Here at EnterpriseTech, our mission is to try to understand the technologies that large enterprises are deploying for competitive advantage and to discern why they are chosen and how they are deployed. Many of them never make it to the corporate datacenter, while others get there eventually. The great thing is that there is no single way to gain competitive advantage, and that researchers in academia, government, and industry are constantly creating and testing technologies.
#Leading edge vs bleeding edge software#
More times than not, that means being out there on the leading edge with new hardware and software technologies, or innovative ways of creating software. Decades later, computing in its various forms is the foundation of the modern corporation, and companies are still looking for new ways of gaining an advantage. If you think of EHR adoption as an opportunity to improve your practice rather than an unfunded mandate, you’ll still have some bleeding edge moments, but with each incremental change that improves your processes you’ll recognize how technology, properly managed, genuinely helps you take better care of patients.Since 1987 - Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run ThemĮnterprises are always looking for an edge to use against the competition, and information technology was created initially and specifically to be that edge. None of these features were ready to go in the software as we purchased it, nor did implementing these processes cost very much in programmer time, but all of these features have received unanimous approval from our doctors and staff as to their value. We are using our own electronic medical record system to increase our optical capture rate, track glaucoma patients who might have missed visual fields, make sure every diabetic patient’s primary care physician gets a faxed report and track surgical patients who have not yet scheduled a procedure. But if you use the adoption of EHR as an opportunity to look at every process in your office and streamline your workflow, the gains will be obvious. In the beginning, every task in EHR is cumbersome and more time consuming than using paper. EHR must work for you, not the other way around.
Just as we invest in keeping our office and equipment up to date, so we must now do so with our computer systems.ģ. Mark Rosenberg, the administrator of the large Barnet Dulaney Perkins practice in Phoenix, first shared this concept with me, and it really rings true. Think of IT not as an expense but as an investment. The investment of effort you make will pay off with greater efficiencies and revenue, but not from the start.Ģ. Expect significant effort to customize any system to your needs.
No system is ready for use out of the box. Here are the three most important lessons we’ve learned:ġ. We certainly gained some scars along the way, but we were lucky enough to adopt a package, from NextGen Health Care of Horsham, Pa., that has since emerged as the leading EHR system in ophthalmology. Our practice was a very early adopter of electronic health records, obtaining our system almost 15 years ago.
Those same words ring true for the adoption of technology in the office while leading edge is good, it’s best to avoid the scars that come from being the very first to use raw tech products - the so-called bleeding edge. If you continue to have this issue please contact to Healioĭan Steen, one of my mentors in residency and a brilliant surgeon, once told me, “John, you don’t want to be the first guy doing a new procedure, but you don’t want to be the last.”
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