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Microsoft, AXA to Build Digital Healthcare Platform for Customers

April 27, 2021 - AXA recently announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to build a digital healthcare platform to create a virtual healthcare system that is open to everyone. The partnership will be built on AXA’s global reach and its experience in healthcare, insurance, business, and technology architecture skills. Microsoft will commit its expertise...


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IBM Taps AWS to Enhance Security of Hybrid Cloud Environments

by Samantha McGrail

IBM Security recently announced new technology initiatives leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help clients simplify and extend their security visibility across AWS and hybrid cloud...

Google Cloud to Advance Wipro Limited’s System, Data Processing

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud recently announced that it will now be the cloud provider for Wipro Limited’s enterprise-wide systems applications and products in data processing (SAP) footprint. The partnership...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Health Insurance Industry Struggles to Update Legacy IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Health insurance legacy IT infrastructure was designed for transactions centered around claims, not for a consumer-engaged environment, observed Beth O’Rorke, chief information officer and...

Healthcare Providers See IT Industry Headed for the Cloud

by Fred Donovan

More than two-thirds (70 percent) of 242 healthcare provider executives surveyed by Reaction Data said that the IT industry is headed for the cloud. Fourteen percent said that cloud computing was an...

Healthcare IT Pros Warm to Putting Sensitive Data in the Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Despite a previous reluctance to put sensitive data in the cloud, healthcare IT pros now see cloud computing as a way to improve their data security and compliance posture. That is one conclusion of a...

Organizations Are More Comfortable Putting PHI in Healthcare Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations are becoming more comfortable putting sensitive PHI in the cloud, observed Mike Jude, digital health research manager at Frost & Sullivan. “For many cloud service...

Network, Cloud Monitoring Is Healthcare Cybersecurity Challenge

by Fred Donovan

Monitoring of networks, endpoints, and cloud assets is a continuing cybersecurity challenge for many healthcare organizations, according to CynergisTek’s 2019 annual report. This is bad news...

Cloud-Based Identity and Access Management Increases Flexibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are leaning towards healthcare identity and access management (IAM) solutions as they continue to add cloud-based services and mobile devices to their IT infrastructure. Research and...

Increasing Healthcare Cloud Security with Bring-Your-Own-Key

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to gain more control over healthcare cloud security. Putting PHI into the hands of cloud service providers (CSPs) involves a high level of trust. CSPs...

How to Deploy, Manage Healthcare Multicloud Environments

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

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...

Healthcare Cloud Security Relies on Infrastructure Visibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations have gone through different periods of trust with the healthcare cloud as the technology becomes a staple in health IT infrastructure. Providers were initially hesitant with cloud...

Compliance Testing Remedies HIT Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations expanding their IT environment are tasked with choosing tools that are in compliance with HIPAA and can be used securely and efficiently in a healthcare environment. HIT infrastructure...

Threat Intelligence Supports Advanced Health IT Security

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Health IT infrastructure technology continues to advance as organizations go through digital transformations. More advanced IT tools also means that entities are threated by more advanced cybersecurity...

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...