Are You Ready to Be ‘Sunsetted’? – Volume 2

In healthcare IT, one fact remains painfully true: many software vendors create applications but fail to continually update them to keep up with the rest of the industry! Consequently,

Validation: saving time down the road

Garbage In Garbage Out Episode 2. Validation is a fancy term for cross-check, double-check, or whatever a person calls “putting an extra pair of eyes” on things.  The term

Ways Input Processes Impact Downstream Data Flows

Garbage In Garbage Out Episode 1. Bad data input creates issues in various ways as it flows downstream. To help eliminate it, let’s start at the beginning: the creation

Location, Location, Location!

It’s a common phrase: location, location, location!  It became a motto for successful retailers over the years…so why bring it up to our audience?  Believe it or not, it’s

Making the Expanding Use of Laboratory Data Work

Healthcare IT delivery systems company Health Gorilla recently published their State of Interoperability 2023 report. Please don’t click away!  That term does sound scary and complex…but it’s talking about

Those Pesky Laboratory Staffing Woes

Lately, there’s been a recurring theme in online news about the challenges of laboratory staffing. According to a recent article from late April in Forbes magazine entitled We’re Facing

Setting up your projects for more success

While managing projects for our clients, we learn methods during the process that can help them be more successful. As we collect these keys to success, we pass them

It’s Good to Get Personal

At C4, we like building relationships with our customers but wish we could meet them in person more often.  For Todd, that all changed during his recent, once-in-a-lifetime road

Labs have been through a lot…now what?

The past year’s been a roller coaster ride for medical testing laboratories: the early Covid-19 restrictions resulted in lower testing volumes as many would-be orders became “testing that can

Holiday Greetings from C4 Database Management

As we near the end of a very unique year, we want to be sure to thank all of you—our customers, partners and extended network—for your collaboration with