Administrators are under extreme demands to add more patient services while simultaneously cutting costs and error rates. And critical issues now facing IT systems' decision-makers are more challenging than ever because trusting "what has been done in the past" cannot-and will not-work. Pressures have never been greater to cut costs and improve profits.

At the same time, administrators are under new and growing pressure to improve bedside care, reduce error rates, develop and deploy EMR (electronic medical records) software, create HIPAA security and leverage the Internet's resources. As healthcare technology pundits now say, medical tablet use is no longer a question of "if," but rather a question of "when."

Mega trends in the software industry are changing the way software is written, sold and distributed. Open source software saves money and provides more choices-while cloud computing allows firms to save on their deployments of software.

Tech names such as Google, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. are now adding market share daily with technologies like Android and Linux-because these product groups add terrific functionality improvements-while also delivering massive savings to users.

Tall Umbrella has adapted the best technologies from these firms (and others), and has now made these systems available to healthcare organizations at "no-brainer" pricing. Our products are unique and at the forefront of growing "Sea Changes." In this way, Tall Umbrella's customers have become ideally aligned with the mega-trends of growth and functionality - with ardent focus on long-term savings, with superior functionality and ease of use.

The "Sea Changes" addressed below are changes that Tall Umbrella's products and services utilize for healthcare applications. Customers are now demanding these changes, and will continue to demand these in the future. By fully aligning with leaders of these sea changes, like Red Hat, Inc. and Google, Inc., Tall Umbrella is positioned to serve our customers inexpensively, while also providing leading edge technologies that are part of current mega trends and major technology shifts

Software Sea Change: Open Source Is In, Proprietary Licensing is Out

Linux software saves money and is growing in popularity. It is here to stay because it offers typical savings of 75% or more over proprietary choices. All of Tall Umbrella's software has been developed "on top of" or "in concert with" the open source business model that has made Red Hat a Wall Street darling. Tall Umbrella software is unique and specifically targeted to healthcare.

Operating System Sea Change: Google is In...Windows is Out

Google's Android operating system and Google Apps are in; Microsoft's latest bug-riddled software is out. Google has released an operating system for mobile devices called Android (a Linux-based system). It is free, and comes standard on the Google Smartphone, the Motorola Droid from Verizon and the Motorola Xoom tablet. Android's market success confirms the open source mega trend, and obviates the need for costly, device-based license fees, i.e. Microsoft. Android can save an organization 50% of their annual software budget, and it now leads the mobile operating system market.

Report January 31, 2011 : Android Tops Global Shipments in Q4. Canalys today published its fourth-quarter 2010 global country-level smartphone market data. To no one's surprise, the report revealed that Google's Android has become the leading platform.

Mobility Sea Change: An Explosion of Tablet PCs

Smartphones and Apple's iPad have now, technically, reached an evolutionary transition point whereby they can be used as all-day, professional tools. Battery life, size, weight and functionality within other corporate systems, make the Smartphone not only smart, but also a mandatory mobility tool for healthcare financial survival in the future.

Computing and Storage Sea Change: Cloud Computing is Growing...Rapidly

The paradigm has shifted: Buying software licenses is out, and open source software is in. Actually, "buying" any software infrastructure is now shifting rapidly to "renting"...this concept is called Cloud Computing. Properly defined, Cloud Computing is the "hourly use of software, operating systems and servers," and it is taking the world by storm because the savings are usually 75-85% of annual budgets for these three costly items.

Tall Umbrella's customers can be assured they are using the very best in current technology—which Tall Umbrella will keep current—while receiving the most effective combination of low price and functionality without surprise fees, IT overhauls, or unexpected delays.