Digital Realty Increases Number of LEED-Certified Data Centers to Nineteen
To 19, including two LEED Platinum, six LEED Gold, ten LEED Silver and one LEED certified facilities. Digital Realty also has more than a dozen additional facilities currently going through the LEED certification process.The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
"Energy efficiency and sustainability are very important to our customers, which is why we have made it a core element of our approach to designing, building and operating data center facilities," said , CTO of Digital Realty. "The USGBC's LEED certification program is the most widely recognized and respected standard for sustainability in buildings of all kinds. We believe that it is an excellent standard for ensuring that our data center facilities support our customers' green strategies while helping to lower their total cost of occupancy."
About U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
The -based U.S. Green Building Council is committed to a prosperous and sustainable future for our nation through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings. With a community comprising 78 local affiliates, nearly 16,000 member companies and organizations, and nearly 167,000 LEED Professional Credential holders, USGBC is the driving force of an industry that is projected to contribute are responsible for 39% of CO2 emissions, 40% of energy consumption, 13% water consumption and 15% of GDP per year, making green building a source of significant economic and environmental opportunity. Greater building efficiency can meet 85% of future U.S. demand for energy, and a national commitment to green building has the potential to generate 2.5 million American jobs.
Georgia Health Insurance Provider Credentialing Applications - News
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CMS TeleMed Rule Eases Physician Credentialing - Teleconnect ...
A new rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expected to make it easier for small and critical access hospitals to use telemedicine to link with physicians and other larger hospitals or academic medical centers. The change will also make it easier for small hospitals in underserved areas to access specialty services such as teleradiology, teleICU, and telestroke .
The final rule revises the conditions of participation for hospitals and CAHs by implementing a new credentialing and privileging process for physicians and practitioners who provide telemedicine services.
Each hospital and CAH will no longer be required to credential and grant privileges to each physician and practitioner who provides telemedicine services to its patients from a distant hospital or other telemedicine location. Instead, hospitals can rely on the credentialing and privileging decisions of the distant hospital.
For small hospitals and CAHs in rural areas and regions where there may be a limited supply of primary care and specialist physicians, telemedicine can provide more flexible and cost-effective medical care.
Groups such as the American Telemedicine Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Hospital Association have been lobbying for years for the change. Among the complaints: The old system were particularly burdensome for small hospitals, which often lack the staff and the financial resources to confirm the privileges of individual telehealth physicians.
Under the current system, rural hospitals often contract for specific telemedicine services and physician groups. The new rule will mean rural hospitals will have access to a larger pool of physicians and services, explained Mona Moore, director of operations at the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth in Waycross. “This rule allows facility-to-facility credentialing. If a hospital in Waycross has a telehealth contract with a medical center in Atlanta then all of those physicians are automatically credentialed for the Waycross hospital.