Saving Lives and Money with Smarter Hospitals: Streaming analytics, other new tech help to balance costs and benefits.

Smart technology is a major topic for hospitals today, and it?s all about gathering, sharing, and using information with the lofty aspirations of improving care while also cutting costs. The emphasis is on functional interoperability of medical devices and hospital systems to create a fully interconnected medical institution where data are seamlessly linked between and among devices and systems, particularly electronic health records (EHRs). But the question remains, is it worth the investment in the end?