Data Storage Challenges

• The necessity to secure patient information to meet HIPPA compliance laws.

• Growing demands to protect confidential patient health file data against loss and corruption.

• Ensuring healthcare providers can retrieve consolidated medical information on patients from a safe, centralized source.

• Organizing stored medical files for easy, instant access.

Healthcare Industry Trends

By monitoring industry trends, OSP can anticipate future data storage needs of healthcare industry. Currently, OSP team is reviewing impact of these trends on data storage:

• Storing, long-term, medical history by symptom, gender, etc. to provide insights regarding collective health patterns.

• Meeting demands of a highly mobile baby boomer population and their need for easily moving their medical history with them.

• Physicians needing to reduce time it takes to access stored data to free up more time for increasing patient care schedules.

• Obesity prevalence rates of 15% to 19% in more than 18 US states creating formidable increases in diabetes - causing medical researchers to seek access to data generated and stored by multiple healthcare providers whose collective information could identify common traits and in turn, a path to cures.

• Aggressive hacker infiltration, identify theft and viruses that continue to corrupt vital patient health data.

FocusStor recommends that all healthcare providers join thousands of healthcare businesses who have decided to safeguard their data using FocusStor’s backup solution.

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Dedicated Room or Living Room Now before you come up with excuse that your living room is your home theater room and other things take place there besides watching movies, just stop. If your home theater room and living room are one and same, there is even greater incentive for you to address room's lighting. Your living room is a multi-purpose room. When your friends come to visit, that is where you congregate. You read your books in your favorite chair, which is in living room. Your family gets together to play board games or even just to talk in living room. On top of these and anything else that goes on in your living room, you watch your movies there. How nice would it be if you could adjust lights to create perfect reading atmosphere around your favorite chair? Or how would you like to make a very inclusive and personal setting for spending time with loved ones? Even doing something as simple as creating a relaxing, cozy environment after coming home from work can be accomplished by changing lighting conditions of a room. Proper lighting will provide you with means to create all of this in your living room.

Convenience Home theater lighting can easily be tailored in order to take work out of finding perfect setting for each light in room every time you want to watch a movie. A central lighting control allows you to change intensity of all lights in a room from a single location. Some of more sophisticated learning remote controls can actually activate your favorite lighting conditions with push of a button.

As you can see, lighting is vital to effectiveness of your home theater system. After being introduced to possibilities that proper home theater lighting and control provides, it will be hard for you to ignore it any longer. You've taken time, effort, and expense of creating a home theater system for a reason. Finish job with proper lighting and create a truly enjoyable viewing experience.

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