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Tips for Managing a Healthcare Business: From Ensuring HIPAA Fax Compliance To Maintaining the Building

Managing a healthcare business involves multifaceted responsibilities that extend far beyond patient care. Leaders in the healthcare industry must prioritize compliance, embrace technology, foster a supportive work environment, and maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and safety to ensure the best outcomes. Moreover, building strong relationships with patients and the community is essential for cultivating trust in healthcare services. In this article, we will explore practical strategies healthcare managers can implement to meet these critical challenges.

How to Search Your Cloud Data - With No Data Movement

Organizations are building data lakes and bringing data together from many systems in raw format into these data lakes, hoping to process and extract differentiated value out of this data. However, if you’re trying to get value out of operational data, whether on prem or in the cloud, there are inherent risks and costs associated with moving data from one environment to another.

Tracking Custom Metrics in Python with AppSignal

We have improved our custom metrics offering with two recent Python releases. In release 1.1.1 of our Python package, we added the add_distribution_value helper, and in version 1.2.0, we added support for minutely probes, so you can measure the distribution of key data points in your Python application. In this blog post, we'll show you how to set up custom metrics in your Python application to gain valuable insights without sifting through logs or querying databases.

How to use Tailscale for gRPC authentication in Golang

Friends of this blog know that I am a big fan of building internal tools, or as we call them, "tools that help scale people". As the name suggests, internal tools are used, well, internally and as such usually will require their access to be restricted to the company's staff and network. In the past, I've written about how to use Tailscale for authentication of internal tools using HTTP. In this post, I will show you how to use Tailscale for gRPC authentication in Golang.

Six Compelling Reasons to Choose SolarWinds Every Day, Every Time

Technology investments in today’s digital economy are crucial in achieving your business goals and gaining a competitive edge. As business strategies evolve and technology advances, IT environments are becoming increasingly complex and hybrid while budgets remain stagnant. Choosing the right solution to manage your technology stack is vital to deliver superior application experiences and meet your performance, availability, and operational requirements.

Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad

There’s a sentence that strikes fear into the heart of every frontend developer I've ever met: Users are reporting issues, and we don't know how to replicate them. What do you do when that happens? Do you cry? Do you mark the issue as wontfix and move on? Personally, I took the road less traveled: gave up frontend engineering and moved into product management (this is not actually accurate but it's a good joke and it feels truthy).

How an All-in-One AI Advisor Enables IT Teams to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Ever since generative AI burst into public consciousness, business executives and IT leaders have been intrigued by the potential of generative AI to transform IT. As it turns out, generative AI has already begun revolutionizing ITOps and we are excited to be at the forefront of this game-changing technology through the ScienceLogic SL1 Hollywood release.

What Dynatrace doesn't want you to know about Cisco Full-stack Observability and AppDynamics

Cisco Full-Stack Observability is a strategic investment that outshines Dynatrace by incorporating AI-driven insights, full-stack visibility, and a future-proof design that adapts to your evolving business needs. Application experience is the heart of your digital business, so choosing the right observability platform is not just a technical decision — it’s strategic.