Cloud
The cloud is revolutionizing the healthcare industry by providing scalable, secure, and accessible solutions for managing vast amount of data. With cloud technology, healthcare professionals can access critical data anytime and anywhere, leading to enhanced decision-making and timely patient care.
Cloud computing allows healthcare organizations to store, process, and analyze patient information and clinical data more efficiently, facilitating improved collaboration and information sharing among healthcare providers. Ultimately, the cloud is transforming healthcare into a more connected, efficient, and patient-centered industry. To know more, read our Cloud special issue.
Resilience Through Crises: Providence’s Journey to an Integrated ERP
By Frances Chao, GVP, Enterprise Business Applications, Providence Non-clinical technology in healthcare has been decades behind other industries. Providence—a not-for-profit health system with over 117,000 caregivers (employees) across 51 hospitals and 1,000 clinics—was no exception. Providence has been on a ...
Delivering Technology in a Rapidly Changing Ecosystem
By Pete D’Addio, Director, Enterprise Technology, Moffitt Cancer Center Every day there is a new need for technology. New use cases and opportunities continue to challenge the status quo, if the status quo as we know still exists. The iPhone, ...
How the Cloud is Transforming Healthcare
By Tsvi Gal, VP, Enterprise Technology Services and Atti Riazi, SVP & CIO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Healthcare brings unique challenges to technology adoption. The data representing people, diseases, and medicine is complex and voluminous. Consumers and providers of ...
More Than Just Someone Else’s Computer
By Christopher Frenz, Information Security Officer/AVP of IT Security, Mount Sinai South Nassau If we look back almost a decade ago, any search that occurred for the term cloud computing would likely reveal a few links to the meme that ...
Expanding Cloud Computing usage at Health Systems
By Anil Saldanha, Chief Cloud Officer, Rush University System for Health Health systems comprise a group of hospitals providing health care services to people. Information Technology (IT) plays a critical role in care delivery since it is typically responsible for ...
Smart and Secure PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) on Clouds
By Synho Do, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School With the digitization of healthcare comes the discovery of newly developed areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) ...
Cloud Computing Speeds Up Digital Transformation
By Garima Srivastava, Executive Director, Enterprise Business and Web Systems, Stanford Children's Health Technological disruption is transforming every aspect of the future of healthcare. COVID-19 emphasized the need for this digital world much more than ever. Social distancing and hygiene ...
SAP IS ENABLING HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION WITH A SOLUTION PLATFORM AND PARTNERSHIP
The U.S. Healthcare industry is transforming. With consumers having more financial accountability for their care and the government shifting healthcare reimbursement to a value versus volume-based model, the business is fundamentally changing. Before the pandemic, the shift to a more ...
Why Moving the EMR to the Cloud Is the Next Natural Evolution
By Zafar Chaudry, MD, MS, MIS, MBA, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Seattle Children's The need for agile IT infrastructure has never been greater. Two years into the pandemic, healthcare IT leaders face numerous challenges and increasing pressure to ...
Application Rationalization Journey in a Large Complex Health System
By Tabitha Lieberman, SVP Clinical and Revenue Cycle Applications, Providence St. Joseph Health When my daughter was young, she jumped on the beanie baby bandwagon and worked her way through the family governance structure to get a healthy capital investment ...
Moving from “Interesting” to “Actionable”
By Bradd Busick, SVP & CIO, MultiCare Health System While the pandemic was a prime opportunity to drive innovation, cultural and procedural change in support of patient safety, for years health care systems have admired and in many cases, been ...
The role of cloud and analytics as emerging technologies in healthcare
By Jim Beinlich, Chief Data Information Officer, Penn Medicine Introduction Cloud technology and analytics have been around for quite some time. Still, they are taking on lead technology roles in healthcare, especially after the past year where working “anywhere and ...
Cloud journey a few lessons!
By Christian Aboujaoude, CTO, Keck Medicine of USC The rapid expansion of cloud services over the last decade has significantly paved the way for organizations of all shapes and sizes to accelerate their journey to innovation and efficiency. The availability ...
Positioning Healthcare Providers for the Digital Age
By Tony Ambrozie, SVP & Chief Digital and Information Officer, Baptist Health South Florida One of the most significant changes facing healthcare providers today is digital transformation. One hospital system CEO described the digital transformation as having even more of ...
Lacework Cloud Security & Compliance For Health Tech Companies
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a global reset for most organizations in regards to shifting their operations over to a fully remote-working culture. This new wave of change resulted in the rapid adoption of software as a service (SaaS) applications that ...
How a California county health system took a quantum leap in disaster preparedness and business continuity through the use of hybrid cloud and network fabric technologies?
By Amanpreet Kaur, Information System Analyst IV, San Joaquin General Hospital and Mark Thomas, CIO, San Joaquin General Hospital Introduction Until 2018, San Joaquin General Hospital and County Clinics had a relatively immature digital infrastructure. Its core healthcare processes were ...
Using Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) Technology to Transform Your Agency’s Culture of Innovation
By Melissa Fox, MHA, FACMPE, FACHE, COO, Acenda &Brian Annett, MBA, Senior Director of IT, Acenda Business Intelligence (BI) tools can play an important role in any business, whether it be a community-based nonprofit or a multi-state corporation. These tools ...
Challenges of Adopting the Cloud in Healthcare
By Lynn Gibson, CTO/VP, CHRISTUS Health For more than a decade, marketing pitches have sold the ease of moving to the cloud. Cloud will save you money. Cloud will allow you be more agile. Cloud is more reliable. The truth ...
What Were We Waiting for? DevOps Transformation at Cancer Treatment Centers of America
By Amy Walters, AVP, Technology Operations & Kirk Carnicom, Director, Cloud Engineering and Operations, Cancer Treatment Centers of America DevOps, the combination of product development (Dev) and technology operations (Ops), is a buzzword thrown around often in the Information Technology ...
Cloud Infrastructure Adoption
By Raymond Lowe, SVP & CIO, AltaMed Health Services The COVID-19 pandemic has driven many organizations to adopt new cloud technologies at a faster rate due to application and infrastructure decentralization, and remote work policies. The need for applications and ...