Cloud Computing
Despite the opportunities and the fact that many problems have already been solved, pharma and life sciences are lagging other industry in cloud adoption.
From clinical trials to supply chain, the pharma industry is using cloud computing models in numerous ways.
The industry has some unique challenges to tackle and moving to the cloud often leads to breaches.
With cloud computing gaining traction in healthcare, executives who have already started down the path to cloud-first offer advice for others.
FHIR is key to interoperability and better data access, says FHIR product director for HL7 International Grahame Grieve.
CMMI Director Adam Boehler details the impact of new interoperability rules from CMS and ONC.
It’s not for cost-savings on storage and compute. Instead, NewYork-Presbyterian, Mercy and Humana are harnessing the cloud to improve patient and clinician experience.
Google Cloud identifies these as two important healthcare trends going into HIMSS19.
New technologies can be used to proactively detect malfunctioning equipment and enable faster repair.
Tests have shown that distance between the cloud provider and the enterprise can have a significant impact on latency with delays when the cloud is far away.