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Article: Coping with progress: vendors' view of long-term care manufacturers and suppliers.(SUPPLEMENT TO NURSING HOMES/LONG TERM CARE MANAGEMENT)
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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There's an old saying, "The only constant is change." Put another way, things never stay the same. Nowhere is this observation more true than in the fields of communications and information (IT) technology. Dramatic change is "business as usual" in IT and wireless, which is both a blessing and a curse. The blessings are the rapid advances in functionality and affordability that can benefit even the most modestly budgeted organizations. The curse is that organizations, such as many long-term care facilities, feel unable to budget for such change. The fear of high-priced obsolescence is ever-present and paralyzes long-term care decision makers, who end up purchasing only ...