HIT Consultant meet with Chris Gough, Healthcare Solution Architect at Intel Corporation during HIMSS12 where he discusses the types of cloud models and how it relates within each specific type of healthcare organization. He also discusses his thoughts on a "community cloud" model specifically for healthcare organizations that is a bridge between private cloud and the traditional data center footprint. [bitsontherun J79GqBjV]
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Guest Post: 4 Key Takeaways from RNSA 2011
This guest post was provided by Mariano Maluf, Chief Technology Officer of GNAX: Chicago is America’s windy city. And nowhere was this more obvious than at RSNA’s 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting. Lakeshore Drive was even shut down because of the high winds and Lake Michigan surges. Less literal but equally real, within the walls of McCormick Place another strong wind was blowing: that of technology in transition. Over 50,000 attendees welcomed trends and terms such as cloud,
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Video: Evolving Imaging Practices: Image Sharing, Analytics and the Cloud
Learn how you can use imaging solutions to help accelerate the cycle of care, improve the patient experience and shave costs out of the system, in this discussion by a panel of renowned experts from the 2011 Microsoft Connected Health Conference in this hour long video. Topics of discussion include EMRs integration, image sharing, analytics, and the cloud.
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GNAX Health Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Provider in HIT
GNAX Health Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Provider in HIT as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware's criteria GNAX Health, a healthcare technology infrastructure service provider located in Atlanta, Georgia, proudly announces certification as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware's criteria as a "vCloud Powered" services provider. The announcement was made by Mariano Maluf, CTO, GNAX Health, and President, Global VMUG, at VMworld 2011. "We're
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Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud
Thought Leadership: Security in the Cloud Cloud Computing has Been Playing A Larger Role in Healthcare, but what is Its Security Profile? by John Degaspari EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As more provider organizations look to the cloud computing model, they face a host of security-related questions. What are the appropriate applications for the cloud, what is the best cloud model, and what do they need to know to choose the best vendor? Hospital CIOs and security experts weigh in. From a
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Video: Cloud Imposters: Understanding the Risks of Hosted ASPs
Although many health information technology companies claim that their software products run “in the cloud,” there are some important distinctions between true cloud based systems and those that are really just client server technology in disguise. This video podcast reviews the important distinctions between the cloud networking model and hosted solutions, where a vendor “hosts” the application with either your hardware or theirs, and gives users access via an Internet connection.Massoud
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Video: One Future: The Healthcare Supply Cloud
This video was used during Shape the Future, the interactive experience we presented at the 2011 Summit. It presents one possible direction for the healthcare supply chain, 3 to 5 years down the road. Its purpose was to engage the audience and spark a discussion on the validity of the vision and the obstacles that would need to be overcome to make it a reality.
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Astadia on Healthcare Integration in the Cloud
Corey Vander Jagt, Dir or Product Marketing at Astadia, winner of an InnovatioNEXT award, discusses the healthcare integration work that his systems integration company has been building on the Pervasive DataCloud on the Amazon Web Services platform.
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