Tag: cloud computing

March 24, 2017

GE will invest $500 million in its healthcare unit to make its operations more digital, and GE Healthcare also plans to double its bench of 5,000 software engineers, GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery revealed. The GE Healthcare unit employs 54,000 […]

March 16, 2017

Most hospital CIOs agree: It’s only a matter of time before hospitals transfer all their data to the cloud and eliminate data centers entirely. The need to pare down storage costs and improve access to health data across multiple providers […]

February 17, 2017

Microsoft is trying again in healthcare, betting its prowess in cloud services and artificial intelligence can help it expand in a market that’s been notoriously hard for technology companies. A new initiative called Healthcare NExT will combine work from existing […]

December 19, 2016

Concerto Cloud Services launched a platform featuring built-in HIPAA compliance from the application down through the physical layer. The service, called the Concerto Cloud for Healthcare, also offers hybrid deployment capabilities, with integrations across the Concerto private cloud, Microsoft Azure […]

December 15, 2016

A group of hospitals in Paris is exploring the use of data analytics and machine learning to predict patient admissions down to the hour. Four hospitals within the city’s public hospital system are trialing a new data-driven approach that combs […]

October 31, 2016

Internet-of-Things devices lack some of the most basic cybersecurity protocols. As a result, these devices can be weaponized en masse – and in as little as three minutes. Not only that, ForeScout researchers revealed in the security firm’s recent IoT […]

October 13, 2016

The American Heart Association is striking out on an ambitious plan to use big data analytics, data mining and the cloud to enable the use of precision medicine to treat cardiovascular disease. Leading the way for the AHA is the […]

September 23, 2016

The worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2016 to $208.6 billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to a forecast by Gartner Inc. The highest growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services or infrastructure […]

September 13, 2016

Enterprise IT executives expect 60 percent of workloads will run in the cloud by 2018, according to a new report from 451 Research. The firm’s survey of more than 1,200 IT buyers worldwide conducted in May and June shows that […]

September 6, 2016

Big data is generated by a variety of different gadgets and sensors, including security devices. The new report from the Cloud Security Alliance — “100 Best Practices in Big Data Security and Privacy” — looks at the best practices that […]

August 19, 2016

Medical devices aren’t just for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment anymore. A new study from PwC shows how evolving technologies and the imperatives of value-based care are causing many manufacturers to rethink what they bring to market, offering a wider array […]

June 22, 2016

More than 75 percent of healthcare organizations plan to move IT systems to a public cloud within the year, according to research from security and compliance specialist HyTrust. What’s more, despite widespread consensus that hospitals are cloud-averse, some 55 percent […]

April 27, 2016

Digital document kingpin Adobe has unveiled the first integration between Adobe Sign and Adobe Marketing Cloud. The integration is designed to eliminate costs and inefficiencies surrounding manual, paper-based processes for enrolling and services, including healthcare enrollment, registration and services. Adobe […]

March 15, 2016

McKesson Corporation today announced the launch of InterQual Connect™, a cloud-based medical review service with authorization connectivity for payers and providers. InterQual Connect works with the same care management systems and InterQual Criteria they already use, making it fast, easy, and cost-effective to implement […]

March 10, 2016

Communicating the IT strategic plan is one of the primary responsibilities of a CIO. Most importantly, the IT strategic plan should be seen as an enterprise wide activity and not just an IT centric exercise. IT should be an enabler […]