Cloud Computing

Prominent healthcare execs are predicting a drastic shift from on-premise IT infrastructure into the cloud.

Healthcare IT News conducted a post-HIMSS17 survey to gauge real implementations of the conference’s big buzzwords. Respondents also revealed their favorite part of this year’s conference. 

This year's conference hit on many healthcare trends, including machine learning, analytics and population health. And then there were Dan Rather, Ginni Rometty, John Boehner and Michael Leavitt. Here are the high points, all in one place.

The company said the software will take users to WebMD’s content library to avoid misdirected search for health information. 

IBM’s Watson met Salesforce’s Einstein in a deal the companies said could help healthcare organizations advance data-driven decision making. 

An employee made a typo in the command input, which took several servers offline for about four hours on Feb. 28.

With the personal computer OS, browser and smartphone wars behind us, vendors including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are setting sights on AI devices. Here’s what hospitals need to know now about the emerging technologies. 

On Feb. 28, Amazon's S3 cloud-based service experienced outages that caused a number of major websites and apps – including many across healthcare – to stop working optimally.

HIMSS17 has come and gone. Take our survey to separate the buzz from the real world work already underway at hospitals across the U.S.

The companies said they intend to put the artificial intelligence-powered text analytics technology to work accelerating advances in patient care.