The early creators of the Internet discovered that data and information could be sent more efficiently when broken into smaller chunks, sent separately, and reassembled. Those chunks are called packets. So when you send an email across the Internet, your full email message is broken down into packets, sent to your recipient, and reassembled. The same thing happens when you watch a video on a website like YouTube: the video files are segmented into data packets that can be sent from multiple YouTube servers around the world and reassembled to form the video that you watch through your browser. (definition courtesy of Google Chrome’s “20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web”)
Webinar: Reduce Costly Patient No-Shows
There are a million reasons a patient no-shows for an appointment, or calls right before their scheduled appointment to cancel. Some of the reasons are unavoidable, but all of them cost you money....
