Data Centers News and Resources for Healthcare

Healthcare Is One of Top Industries Mulling VMwareCloud on AWS

August 27, 2019 - 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 Faction. Other leading industries include tech services, financial services, and education, the survey found. Across industries, 29 percent of respondents plan...

Lawsuit Alleges No IT Infrastructure Backup Before Sutter Outage

July 25, 2019 by Fred Donovan

Sutter Health failed to put in backup health IT infrastructure prior to a massive network outage in May 2018, despite being warned about the risk, charged Stuart James, former chief information service...

HHS Ups Its FITARA Grade Through Internal Performance Metrics

May 01, 2019 by Fred Donovan

HHS established internal performance metrics for its component agencies that officials believe led to increased effectiveness in implementing the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act...

Healthcare Organizations Need Backup Data Centers for Emergencies

December 19, 2018 by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations should have primary and secondary data centers for redundant operations in the event of a disaster or downtime, advised consulting firm Crowe. These primary and alternative...

Healthcare Data Centers Call For Cloud, Virtualization

May 18, 2018 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...

Applying Healthcare Blockchain to HIT Infrastructure

April 10, 2018 by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare blockchain becomes more of a reality in the healthcare industry, organizations considering adopting the technology in the coming years need to consider how blockchain will impact their...

How an Aging Population Will Revolutionize IoT and Edge Solutions

April 02, 2018 by Bill Kleyman

We’ve been hearing a lot about IoT and edge solutions. We’ve even discussed it here, where edge can really help with things like telemedicine and evolving a distributed healthcare...