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By Nik Korba, Staff Writer – Otter PR Collecting data is not a problem in the world of healthcare. A recent study found the average hospital produces approximately 50 petabytes of data every year. To help you understand how much data that is, consider 1 petabyte is the equivalent of 500 billion pages of standard printed text. Managing data, however, is a problem. The enormous volume of data flowing into hospitals each day has created...

Barbara Huelat experienced the healing power of design early in her career. The encounter began with a simple request for new draperies from a woman named Lucy, but as Barbara got to know her, she learned Lucy had some deeper needs. The darkness that had taken over Lucy’s home was a reflection of the despair she was feeling from losing a loved one and suffering from a heart attack. Lucy needed healing, and Barbara leveraged...

Sleep plays an essential role in a person’s overall health and well-being at every stage of life. The way you feel while you are awake depends in large part to how you slept the night before. That’s because while you sleep, your body is working to support healthy brain function and maintain your physical health. Chronic sleep deprivation can have severe consequences. Insufficient sleep can lead to conditions like heart disease, stroke, obesity, and even...

Over and over again, studies reveal that the United States healthcare system suffers from suboptimal outcomes, even though Americans spend more on healthcare than similar industrialized nations. As a recent article in Time Magazine notes, “average life expectancy is lower in the U.S. than in other wealthy nations, and about 60% of U.S. adults have a chronic disease.” Part of the problem is that the majority of the healthcare system in the US still uses...