Planning a healthcare cloud environment can be challenging, especially when so many options exist and there is no clear answer on which cloud technique will best serve each unique health IT infrastructure demand. More organizations are looking to healthcare multicloud as a way to utilize a variety of cloud service providers (CSPs) for the different...
Organizations are relying on data more and more as digital tools prove to significantly help clinicians gain better insight into patient health. The data that Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices collect can also keep patients informed about their health so they can make steps to take care of themselves between visits to the doctor.
The IoMT...
Interoperability remains one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare organizations today. Despite the advancements providers are making through digital transformation and (application programming interfaces (APIs), many clinicians and patients are still unable to successfully exchange EHR data.
ONC is continuing to work with...
Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming more prominent in the industry as many organizations see the value in tracking assets and monitoring patient health digitally.
As more devices are added to the network, organizations need make sure that their network can accommodate more than the devices currently deployed to scale properly...
Google, Microsoft, and Apple continue their efforts to break into the HIT infrastructure industry as they see value in securing patents for healthcare-oriented technology.
Kalorama Information reported that about 84 percent of US hospitals have adopted basic EHR systems, indicating that it’s a lucrative vertical for major vendors to get into....
Healthcare organizations deal with several application programming interfaces (APIs) when it comes to building apps and sharing data. Organizations going through digital transformations need to manage their healthcare APIs to create applications that function to the best of their ability.
An API is an interface that allows unrelated software...
Organizations are challenged by constantly increasing amounts of health data as more connected and digital devices contribute data. The rate at which the data is growing is also causing healthcare data lakes to flood. Organizations need to resolve storage and analytics challenges to use the data collected in data lakes.
A data lake is a centralized...
As healthcare blockchain becomes an impending reality, organizations are looking to major vendors to see how blockchain adoption and implementation will be approached in health IT infrastructure. Major vendors like Microsoft are prepared to take on specific requirements healthcare organizations need to successfully implement blockchain in the coming...
Blockchain is one of the most prominent buzzwords in health IT, but figuring out which vendors are experienced and healthcare oriented can be challenging when first looking into the technology. Knowing what to look for and what questions to ask potential vendors will ensure that the organization have confidence in their healthcare blockchain...
Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, the web-based open source hosting service. Many healthcare organizations use GitHub for health IT related source code, so the acquisition could impact how organizations access and use healthcare open source code.
Microsoft is expected to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock, and the deal...
I’ve really been enjoying diving into the world of DevOps. More specifically, I’ve had the chance to speak with leading healthcare providers to better understand how and where they’re leveraging DevOps to do some really amazing things, including improving their healthcare IT infrastructure.
In the world of healthcare,...
Organizations that are building out their HIT infrastructure are facing challenges when it comes to communicating data using a centralized repository, or a centralized hub that all data needs to pass through.
The volume of data and the number of devices communicating data makes centralized HIT infrastructure inefficient as the healthcare industry...
As healthcare organizations continue to utilize telehealth programs, it’s more important than ever to make sure that all health IT infrastructure requirements for telehealth are met. Organizations that do not properly support their telehealth network will experience dropped connections, security risks, and dissatisfied clinicians and...
The constant increase of data pushes healthcare organizations to reassess their data storage needs. While cloud computing is the fastest way to get more scalability for the consistently increasing amount of data, on-premises healthcare storage flexibility is also increasing and becoming easier to deploy and manage.
It’s rare for a healthcare...
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a digital transformation and introducing new digital tools into their health IT infrastructure at a rapid pace. In order to manage the tools that are driving digital transformation, organizations need to understand the complexities of the healthcare multicloud approach to further progress.
Healthcare is a...
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 services market will grow at a CAGR of nearly 14 percent through 2023.
Data center services includes cloud and hosting, networks, consulting, and...
Healthcare organizations going through digital transformations are leveraging containers to enhance their HIT infrastructure as a way to manage applications. The potential introduction of Kubernetes-as-a-Service can help ease container management.
Organizations use containers for application development, operating system environments, and to...
Using innovative HIT infrastructure tools to give patients better access to care options, including broadband improvements for telehealth, can help improve the quality of care for cancer patients in rural areas, according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).
The population of rural counties in the...
Organizations are currently faced with an onslaught of advancing HIT infrastructure technology that needs to be developed to meet each organization’s unique needs. Healthcare open source projects are essential to developing and deploying new and innovative technology.
Open source software makes its code freely accessible to anyone. Users can...
Red Hat announced its collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital to provide a distributed user open source image sharing interface so clinicians and radiologists can share images in real-time anywhere around the world.
The ChRIS Research Integration Service is a web-based medical image platform deployed on the Massachusetts Open Cloud...
