Cloud Computing

As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts.

Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.

While we can't afford to have redundancy in every situation due to budgets and application architectures, we can partner to understand the core technology needs and design to minimize downtime for business and clinical units.

The COVID-19 pandemic compelled healthcare organizations around the world to embrace cloud computing to support patient care and remote work. Two years later, the industry is at an inflection point, with many new and enhanced cloud solutions offered by vendors. With so many choices available, chief information officers should select solutions that fit their organization’s needs and combine them with security tools to protect sensitive patient data.

When implemented correctly, these programs can effectively crowdsource security research and testing services to help uncover real world exploitable vulnerabilities.

Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue.

One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' and more.

Community Health Systems (CHS), located in Franklin, Tennessee, is one of America’s leading operators of general acute-care hospitals. After replacing its legacy IT service desk tools with ServiceNow® IT Service Management, CHS turned to ServiceNow® IT Asset Management to help manage its software assets. At the time, CHS was tracking software assets manually using spreadsheets. This meant the inventory was incomplete, inaccurate and out of date, making it difficult to challenge vendor audits and leaving CHS exposed to compliance risk. ServiceNow helped CHS take more control over its software purchasing path so it could have better conversations with vendors.

Before disasters, such as tornadoes or wildfires, communities should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones," where equipment and virtual-care kiosks can be moved.

Hundreds of healthcare and life science organizations partner with DocuSign to simplify operations and deliver better experiences for patients and physicians. The DocuSign Agreement Cloud makes it easy for patients, physicians, researchers and vendors to securely interact and complete agreements in an accessible way regardless of location. DocuSign has helped customers from small biotechs to large multinationals adhere to compliance standards like SOX, 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11, HIPAA and SAFE-BioPharma, and to provide multiple layers of verification and encryption to protect sensitive data.