IT Infrastructure

Verizon’s Nancy Green says that with many M&As and joint ventures happening, IT infrastructure leaders must be ready to expand tech capabilities on short notice.

Turkey has made tremendous strides in digitizing healthcare and touts more than 160 hospitals validated at Stage 6 of EMRAM. HIMSS TV spoke with Aniventi co-founder Nejat Unsal about how his company is supporting the country’s ongoing mission.

Hong Xu, CPC Party Secretary at Children's Hospital of Fudan University, discusses digital health, smart hospitals and where technology fits into the government's Healthy China initiative.

With 11 hospitals validated at Stage 7 on the EMRAM, China has made great inroads with digitizing healthcare. Yu Quan, CIO at China Medical University's Shengjing Hospital, which achieved Stage 7, talks about the next steps in the country's efforts.

To protect the NHS' national critical infrastructure against hacktivists, major crime organizations and nation states, there needs to be further collaboration between key stakeholders, says AbedGraham's healthcare cybersecurity expert Dr. Saif Abed.

Dr. Manish Kohli, HIMSS Enterprise Board Chair, discusses physician burn-out and delivering insights for better clinical decision making, adding that success will come when the technology becomes invisible while patients are in front of doctors and nurses.

Christiana Care Health System CISO Anahi Santiago discusses why hospitals have to invest in security tools to stay ahead of cyberthreats, but that it's just as important to focus on people and process as it is on technology.

John Daniels, VP of HIMSS Analytics, says there is more to digitizing an organization than installing EMR functions, and discusses other adoption and maturity models including artificial intelligence, continuity of care and infrastructure.

Cameron Ballantine, A/ Chief Information Officer at Metro South Health, discusses the challenges and rewards of his organization's journey toward becoming Australia's first digitized health service.

Aashima Gupta, global head of Health Solutions at Google Cloud, talks about Google’s approach to technology enabling infrastructure with healthcare industry standards to allows organizations to have more time to innovate.