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Humana Taps IBM Watson’s AI Solution to Improve Member Care

February 16, 2021 - Humana recently tapped IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI) solution to provide its members with an improved member experience and greater transparency around overall benefits. Under the agreement, Humana will deploy IBM Watson Assistant for Health Benefits, an AI-enabled virtual assistant built in the IBM Watson Health cloud.  The...


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Integrating Digital Health into Clinical Workflows After COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital healthcare and although consumers are interested in virtual services, concerns over privacy, security, and trust still remain, according to...

Medtronic’s $1.64B Acquisition of Mazor Robotics Showing Success

by Samantha McGrail

More than a year after Medtronic finalized its acquisition of Mazor Robotics for $1.64 billion, the purchase is showing early signs of success in its robotic surgery device business, national news...

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...

Middlesex Health IT Team Grappled with Frustrated First Responders

by Fred Donovan

CAMBRIDGE—Middlesex Health in Middletown, CT, gets 10,000 emergency calls per year, but the first responders were getting frustrated by the expensive but unreliable ruggedized laptops they were...

End User Digital Workspace Improvements Enhance User Experience

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Attracting new talent and improving workflow are two important reasons why organizations are seeking to improve their health IT infrastructure. According to a recent ISG report, health IT vendors and...

Healthcare Data Centers Call For Cloud, Virtualization

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As IT infrastructure technology evolves, organizations are looking to use more advanced tools for their healthcare data centers. A recent Research and Markets report predicted that the data center...

Kubernetes-as-a-Service Supports Less Complex Container Management

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations going through digital transformations are leveraging containers to enhance their HIT infrastructure as a way to manage applications. The potential introduction of...

Healthcare Applications to Benefit from OCI Container Standard

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) announced its Distribution Specification project to standardize container image distribution based on the specification for the Docker Registry HTTO API V2 protocol....

Cloud, On-Premises Hyperconvergence Supports HIT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations must find ways to consolidate IT systems to get the most out of their infrastructure hardware while also cutting back costs. This can be difficult as HIT infrastructure...

What Does Potential VMware, Dell Merger Mean for Healthcare Cloud?

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

VMware is poised to buy Dell in a reverse merger in response to the growing demand of cloud-based enterprise IT infrastructure. Dell and VMware both have their hands in healthcare IT, so what could...

Using All-Flash Deployments for Health IT Infrastructure in 2018

by Bill Kleyman

I’m really excited to touch on this topic. Not just because we’ve been doing all sorts of converged infrastructure and all-flash deployments, but because of the massive benefits we’ve...

Top 5 Health IT Infrastructure Trends to Watch in 2018

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

2018 is poised to be an exciting and innovative year for health IT infrastructure as organizations seek to digitally expand their environments to increase workflows and improve patient care. The major...

Healthcare Blockchain, Cloud, Virtualization Top 2017 Stories

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Health IT Infrastructure went through many transformations in 2017 from healthcare blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Healthcare...

Healthcare Software-Defined Networking Allows Cloud Utilization

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are implementing cloud-based, healthcare software-defined networking solutions to gain improved network flexibility and visibility. These solutions can also help entities better leverage...

How Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Benefits Remote Healthcare

by Bill Kleyman

One of my favorite parts of the job is seeing how new technologies are impacting peoples’ lives. This is very much evident when you’re working with healthcare. Hyper-converged...

Utilizing Healthcare App Containers for Application Management

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are demanding more applications as they increase mobility and add flexibility to their IT infrastructure. Healthcare app containers are emerging as a key way to manage and...

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Expanding in Health IT

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Pivot 3 and Arrow Electronics announced their collaboration to make hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) more available to US healthcare customers. HCI is growing quickly across all major verticals as...

How Kubernetes 1.8 Can Improve HIT Security and Workload Support

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Kubernetes 1.8 highlights the open source platform’s security and workload support. Kubernetes 1.8 is the third release this year and enhances and refines upon 1.7. The new option is currently...

HIT Infrastructure Consolidation Increases Efficiently, Security

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

NIST released a new draft version of its Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations outlining how healthcare organizations can most effectively structure their HIT...