Practice Business: Hosted ICT Systems
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Hosted ICT Systems Article in Practice Business May 2009
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Hosted ICT systems
Hosted ICT systems enable healthcare businesses to cut down on wasted resources and reduce their carbon footprint by removing their need for IT equipment such as servers at the practice, and helping to cut down on paper, ink and electricity usage.
Environmentally damaging production, disposal and ongoing use of energy-guzzling servers is reduced dramatically by hosted healthcare systems which store multiple practices’ data on the same servers, based on an economy of scale principle.
For example, if 100 clinics moved from individual servers to a hosted ICT system, their CO₂ emissions could be reduced by 91%*. Multiply this by the tens of thousands of healthcare providers in the UK and the potential for a reduction in carbon emissions is enormous.
Hosted technology is also capable of linking practices with each other as well as with labs, accountants and other partners, greatly reducing the need for printing, posting, faxing, and even meetings, telephone and email communication, as data sharing and exchange between users is online and instant.