Bob Zemke, Director, Vertical & Technical Alliances at Extreme Networks
As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and
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Solving Healthcare’s Data Challenges With Storage-As-A-Service
Laz Vekiarides, CTO of ClearSky Data
Managing healthcare data is a special kind of a nightmare for IT professionals. First, the industry is highly regulated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires strict attention to a complex set of rules governing access, security and privacy. A failure to follow them can result in heavy fines and ruined careers.
Then, there’s the problem of capacity, because, in healthcare, not only is the amount of data doubling every two
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MEDITECH to Offer Expanse EHR Through Google Cloud Platform
- MEDITECH Expanse platform will be one of the first EHRs available through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), delivering a new level of digital transformation. - Collaboration with Google Cloud will securely deliver greater access to patient data, facilitating interoperability, and enhancing scalability.As healthcare organizations look for new ways to enhance health IT interoperability while reducing infrastructure costs, many are turning to the cloud. Today, MEDITECH announced it is expanding the
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Analysis: 5 Trends Shaping The Future of The Global Radiology IT Market
Against the backdrop of artificial intelligence in medical imaging and other hyped healthcare IT technologies, market trends in core radiology IT software and services can easily be overlooked. Many of the largest markets in North America and Western Europe have reached saturation, with few new “greenfield” opportunities. Instead, the dynamics of much of the global radiology IT market revolve around long procurement cycles, replacement or contract roll-on and an entrenched customer base.However,
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Survey: 25% of Healthcare Organizations Are Putting Patient Data at Risk in the Public Cloud
25 percent of healthcare organizations are not using any form of encryption in the public cloud, according to workload security provider HyTrust's latest Healthcare Cloud Survey. The Cloud Adoption survey of 51 healthcare and biotech organizations analyzes healthcare organizations use of public cloud, the utilization of public cloud implementations, and how data is protected in these cloud environments. The survey also found that 63 percent of healthcare organizations say they intend to use
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