Cloud Computing

New service comes shortly after the software giant aligned with Amazon, IBM, Google, Oracle and Salesforce to remove interoperability barriers.

The company will be combined with Veritas-owned Virence Health, but will continue operating under the athenahealth name and keep its Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters. Virence CEO Bob Segert will lead it.

PwC's research is the latest evidence to suggest that now is the time to start blockchain projects or risk falling behind competitors that transform their operations with distributed digital ledger technology.

There are a lot more blockchain jobs today than there were at this time last year and plenty of those are coming to healthcare, according to Glassdoor.

Big Blue said it hopes to disrupt the cloud market and become one of the largest hybrid cloud providers.

But like with most things in healthcare, organizations need to keep following up after choosing the right vendor and signing an airtight contract to best protect data.

It joins Google Cloud and others in the STRIDES Initiative, which aims to speed medical innovation by making large troves of genomic research data more easily available.

Further, the provider has achieved a 48 percent decrease in issue resolution time and a 45 percent decrease in time to first response.

As Watson has undergone close scrutiny over the past year, leader Deborah DiSanzo is moving to IBM Cognitive Solutions' strategy team.

During this podcast, Rogers says IT has "come along just in time" to transform the healthcare delivery system.