Cloud Computing
Data Warehousing
The application and data storage silos built during the last few years have effectively trapped data in systems so it cannot be of value, says Josh Gluck, VP of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy at Pure Storage.
Sentara Health VP and CISO Dan Bowden discusses how hospitals are preparing for consumerism and value-based care by building apps and tools in the cloud.
Workflow
Mazen Sobh, regional business manager at CareStream in the Middle East, outlines the financial, technical, clinical and security benefits of cloud computing for imaging but says key advantage is patient access in a variety of care settings.
IT Infrastructure
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.
IT Infrastructure
Winston Armstrong, CISO at the San Diego Super Computer Center, and Sandeep Chandra, director of health cyberinfrastructure at the same center, both tout the benefits of a hybrid cloud. But key safeguards are needed to keep it secure.
IT Infrastructure
Lee Kim, director of privacy and security at HIMSS, says the industry has a long way to go to be able to fend off next WannaCry or Petya. But the good news is collaboration is happening across healthcare to better get prepared.
Advice on how to take a step-by-step transition with cloud computing platforms
Interoperability
Sachin Shetty, associate professor at Old Dominion University's Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research, is excited about blockchain's potential, and is doing research with Sentara Healthcare into how it could be deployed. But privacy and scalability pose challenges, he said.
Interoperability
Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and more.
With the personal computer OS, browser and smartphone wars behind us, vendors including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are setting sights on AI devices. Here’s what hospitals need to know now about the emerging technologies.