Turns out it can mean different things to different businesses. Perhaps in no other industry are acronyms bandied about as in technology, especially business technology. CRM is one such widely-used acronym that stands for Customer Relationship Management. Mention CRM and many listeners' eyes will glaze over with boredom-but that's probably because they don't really understand what it is.
The National Institutes of Health estimates that 550,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year. The National Institutes of Health estimates that 550,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year.
Nearly 600,000 people -- 1,600 a day -- suffer sudden heart stoppages every year, about 400,000 of them outside hospitals. Less than 6 percent of victims survive cardiac arrests outside hospitals. Of the 200,000 cardiac arrests that occur in hospitals, 24 percent of victims survive, according to a panel of the independent Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences.