Nexus IS

I was surprised with the focus on patient satisfaction as a centering theme at HIMSS this year. Hospitals are valuing the patients more, due to the impact of lower bonuses and future payments tied to poor HCAHPS scores (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems), and having improvements in the service levels will drive loyalty.

Today’s educators and educational institutions face a variety of challenges as they prepare their students to compete in a global economy. Technology has changed how their students learn – and how they will live and work in the future. Technology also however, provides the most effective and economically viable means to meet those challenges.

At Nexus, we believe that our commitment to our people and our business creates incredible value for our customers. More importantly, it produces an outstanding place for members of our team to realize their career, certification, and personal goals. We decided to use the acronym T.E.A.M. – Together Everyone Achieves More – to represent that commitment.

Lots of companies focus on finding ways to connect data sources like Microsoft SQL Server databases, Cisco UC Systems, Oracle databases, CRM systems and more. They help their customers create dashboards that make it easy for end users to get the information they need, when they need it. Often however, businesses find that although their information sources are well connected, the infrastructure required to deliver that information, isn’t!

2012 was a transformational year for the Data Center Practice at Nexus. We made a big commitment to OpenStack, and that commitment really paid off. Not only did we experience more than 30 percent growth, we also changed how Nexus as a company “consumes” information technology. Let’s take a quick look back at what we achieved last year, and more importantly, what we learned.

Isn’t it time that we, as a society, realize that we must change the way our children learn? Our 100-year old method of teaching in the United States produces some of the worst ranking educational results.

In nearly every company, the most expensive cost associated with doing business is employee payroll. Considering this metric, it is important for every CEO to create processes that extract maximum value out of all of their employees.

We have come a very long way. In the not-so-distant past, the most alerting a clinician would have had to deal with may have been two phones ringing simultaneously. Now, there are desk phones, smart phones, nurse call systems, overhead pagers, alphanumeric pagers, PCs, RFID tags, telemetry alerts, digital signage, etc. all vying for the attention of a single clinician.