Cloud Computing

Companies have upped their games in recent years, bolstering their technical infrastructure and jumping through regulatory hoops to prove they have the wherewithal to handle PHI. Providers have taken notice, and are embracing the cloud in big ways.

As companies work to improve their drug discovery processes and foster other new innovations, cloud technology is enabling easier collaboration among researchers worldwide.

The cloud-based eMyLabCollect enables integration with any laboratory or hospital information system via HL7 feeds.

And that's because too many board members don't have the right level of IT and security expertise, a new Black Book study suggests.

Researchers are working with digital therapeutics specialist Biofourmis, using machine learning technology and the Apple Watch to analyze dozens of physiology biomarkers.

Dan Bowden, CISO, and Michael Reagin, CIO of Sentara Healthcare, see big advances in cloud security – with a deeper understanding of the configurations needed for data privacy in the public cloud.

The company says its Cito platform offers real-time single views of patient information, unifying and structuring clinical data into customisable virtual electronic health records.

Virtustream Healthcare Cloud helped the North Carolina-based health system "future-proof" its IT system by moving mission-critical data to its hosting service.

Digitize.AI's Lia technology uses real-time analytics and machine learning to automatically check for new cases and securely submit them directly to payers.

The smartphone app also came in handy during a ransomware attack: When other systems were down, it was up and running.