Cloud Computing

Many hospitals and health systems are finding themselves stuck with a decision support application that no longer meets their needs. When looking for a new solution, five important factors to consider are service levels, functionality, a unified platform, guarantees of success and the vendor’s financial security.

More personalized approaches to therapeutic development and healthcare can improve patient outcomes while increasing operational efficiencies. To bring patients to the center of their organizations, leading healthcare and life sciences organizations leverage AWS for Health to modernize their existing infrastructure for enhanced data liquidity.

Cloud tools together with AI and ML are transforming medical imaging. These solutions are empowering healthcare organizations to solve urgent radiology challenges like data accessibility, compliance, costs, and operational inefficiencies.

Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.

As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts.

Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.

While we can't afford to have redundancy in every situation due to budgets and application architectures, we can partner to understand the core technology needs and design to minimize downtime for business and clinical units.

The COVID-19 pandemic compelled healthcare organizations around the world to embrace cloud computing to support patient care and remote work. Two years later, the industry is at an inflection point, with many new and enhanced cloud solutions offered by vendors. With so many choices available, chief information officers should select solutions that fit their organization’s needs and combine them with security tools to protect sensitive patient data.

When implemented correctly, these programs can effectively crowdsource security research and testing services to help uncover real world exploitable vulnerabilities.

Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue.