Cloud Computing

VMware Acquires Cloud Native Platform Pivotal for $2.7B

by Samantha McGrail

Enterprise software company VMware recently announced that it has acquired the cloud native platform provider Pivotal Software after sealing a $2.7 billion deal last August. VMware has been...

Google Cloud Partners with Suki on Cloud-based Clinical Digital Assistant

by Fred Donovan

Google Cloud is adding Suki’s digital clinical assistant technology to its artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing healthcare products.   Under the agreement, Suki...

UVA Health Deploys Cloud-based Referral Network for SDOH Program

by Fred Donovan

University of Virginia Health is deploying a cloud-based referral network for a social determinants of health (SDOH) program with other local community organizations. The network, provided by Pieces...

Oracle Expands Cloud Infrastructure Business with 2,000 New Hires

by Fred Donovan

Oracle, which provides cloud computing services to Adventist Health, Emblem Health, Glens Falls Hospital, and other healthcare organizations, is expanding its cloud infrastructure business by hiring...

Google Cloud Partners with Meditech to Offer EHR through Public Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Google Cloud is partnering with Meditech to offer its electronic health record (EHR) system through Google’s public cloud platform. As a result of this partnership, Meditech’s Expanse EHR...

SAP Launches Accelerator Program with 7 Health IT Startups

by Fred Donovan

SAP unveiled this week its healthcare-focused accelerator program at SAP.iO Foundry New York with the selection of seven health IT startups. SAP.iO will provide the startups access to SAP technology...

Healthcare Is One of Top Industries Mulling VMwareCloud on AWS

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare is one of the leading industries considering VMwareCloud on AWS, according to a survey of 1,156 IT and business professionals across industries by cloud managed service provider...

CHOC Combines AWS Cloud Computing with Cerner EHR for Data Science

by Fred Donovan

Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) is using the AWS cloud platform with its existing Cerner electronic health record (EHR) to give it the computing power to perform advanced data...

CHI Franciscan Unveils Clinical Control Center to Unify Healthcare IT

by Fred Donovan

CHI Franciscan has partnered with GE Healthcare and Microsoft Azure to implement a clinical control center the brings together electronic health records, transfer center software, staffing...

PHDA Employs AWS Cloud Computing to Enable Healthcare AI Research

by Fred Donovan

The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) is teaming with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud computing services to improve patient care by enabling healthcare AI research.   The PHDA...

Cloud Providers Reaffirm Support for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce reaffirmed their commitment to healthcare interoperability, particularly the HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)...

OSF Healthcare, UoI Contribute $50M for Healthcare IoT Research

by Fred Donovan

OSF Healthcare and the University of Illinois (UoI) at Urbana-Champaign are kicking in $50 million to their Jump ARCHES partnership to fund healthcare IoT applied research. The money will go toward...

Providers Move to Healthcare Multicloud, Despite Security Concerns

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare providers continue to move to multicloud environments as part of their digital transformation efforts, with 80 percent of respondents storing sensitive data in the cloud. A full 61 percent...

MassChallenge Cohort Includes Cloud-based Platform for Clinicians

by Fred Donovan

MassChallenge, the Boston-based startup accelerator, has selected seven digital health startups for the first cohort of its Houston-based accelerator program, including a startup developing a...

Novant Health Migrates Epic EHR To Healthcare Cloud Environment

by Fred Donovan

Novant Health, a North Carolina-based health system, is migrating its Epic electronic health record (EHR) to a healthcare cloud computing environment to improve efficiencies and meet regulatory...

More Healthcare Organizations Plan to Adopt Cloud-First Approach

by Fred Donovan

A majority of healthcare organizations are ready to adopt a cloud-first approach for their health IT infrastructure, compared with only 23 percent of healthcare organizations last year, according to...

Providence St. Joseph Health to Deploy Cloud-Based Health IT with AI

by Fred Donovan

Providence St. Joseph Health is developing and deploying cloud-based health IT that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the clinical and care environment at the Renton, WA-based health...

VA Health IT Programs Receive Federal IT Innovation Awards

by Fred Donovan

Nine health IT programs implemented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were recognized during the FedHealthIT Innovation Awards held June 12 in Washington, DC. The nine VA health...

Healthcare Execs Say Cloud Computing, Other Tech Speeding Innovation

by Fred Donovan

Almost all the healthcare executives surveyed by Accenture said that the pace of innovation in their organization has accelerated over the past three years due to emerging technologies, such cloud...

Healthcare Organizations’ IT Strategy to Include Hybrid, Multicloud

by Fred Donovan

More than half of healthcare organizations expect their IT strategy to include multicloud and hybrid cloud going forward, according to a report by 451 Research on behalf of Virtustream. Multicloud is...