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I’m the Group Vice President for Enterprise, and am passionate about delivering an enhanced customer experience through our local market investments. I also devote a lot of my personal time to fishing with my children.
I was recently speaking with our CMO, Anthony Christie, about the future of healthcare IT as we prepared for this week’s TEDMED event. As we contemplated a “brave new world” in which a doctor treating a tourist in the Caribbean could securely access that patients’ health records located in Minnesota, I wondered, “Wouldn’t it be [...]
The practicality of EHRs and meaningful use incentives will be hot topics at HIMSS, March 3-7, 2013, in New Orleans. That’s understandable given the political and economic climate we are experiencing and see on the horizon. There’s a sea change swelling in healthcare these days, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act and enabled by [...]
In order to gain further insight into the future of healthcare IT and the trends driving the industry, Level 3 commissioned a nationwide study of 100 healthcare CIOs and IT executives. Conducted in late 2012 by independent research firm Corona Insights, the findings from the study paint an interesting picture of the priorities and challenges [...]
In the wake of the recent presidential election, we now know the future of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama administration remains steadfast in its support of the landmark legislation, which aims to pave the way for affordable healthcare for all Americans. A major contingency of the law is that each state is required to [...]
We have been discussing security on the Level 3 blog throughout October. I’m going to continue that discussion, but focus on the healthcare industry and critical measures including business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) – a key consideration in light of unknowns like natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, which bring flash demands on networks [...]
As we mentioned in our blog post on Monday, this is National Health IT Week 2012 and Level 3 Communications has partnered with organizations across the United States to spotlight the critical role that information technology plays in healthcare today, as well as the increasingly important role it will play in the future. Our previous post [...]
This week, Level 3 Communications is joining healthcare and technology companies across the United States to celebrate National Health IT Week 2012, which places a spotlight on the critical role health information technology (IT) plays in improving care, increasing patient safety, reducing medical errors, and enhancing collaboration among healthcare providers. Gone are the days when [...]
