Cloud Computing

The combined company, Datica, will offer a platform to help solve the integration and security compliance challenges that can slow development of innovative cloud-based apps, officials say.

Elena Bonfiglioli, Microsoft's regional business leader of Health and Life Sciences at EMEA, says empowering clinicians through collaboration and coordination is at the core of improving outcomes through personalized care.

The aim is to make the suite available to all Western Australia Health Support Service employees by the middle of next year – a transformation that will see most workloads move from on premises data centres into the cloud.

Google Cloud’s tools and technologies are enabling researchers to ask questions they could never ask before, aiding them in making breakthrough discoveries, according to Nicole DeSantis, higher education marketing manager for Google Cloud.  

Benjamin Jackson, head of customer success, North America, at BC Platforms, describes how his company is helping organizations pull out valuable insights from genomics and phenotypic data.

Every day it takes to develop a product is a day patients don’t have access to sometimes life-saving medication, say Google Cloud’s Sara Kuethe and David Silk.

The new tech also helped the health system enable its caregivers to reclaim 30 percent of their time for face-to-face patient interactions.

Arie Meir, product manager with Google Cloud Healthcare, discusses how AI and the cloud can increase operational efficiency, which would lead to more uniform diagnoses, better treatment and fewer mistakes.

Philippe Kolh, CIO at University Hospital of Liège, a Stage 6 EMRAM hospital, says physicians and nurses need to be part of any planned digital implementations to ensure successful digital transformation.  

The real challenge in precision medicine is achieving precision in analytics and experiments to get very specific results for very specific people, says William Moss, CEO, Seven Bridges Genomics Inc.