Cloud Computing

Healthcare Cloud Computing Seeing Constant Overall Growth

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare cloud computing is growing consistently, with IT infrastructure products for public and private cloud deployments growing by 9 percent, according to a recent report by IDC. Cloud is proving...

Edge Computing Uses IoT Devices for Fast Health IT Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting analytics solutions as part of their HIT infrastructures to offer better patient care. As the number of analytics solutions and internet of things (IoT)...

New HIT Open Source AI Platform Available on Azure HDInsight

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

H2O.ai announced the availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform on Microsoft Azure HDInsight, making it more widely available for health IT infrastructure deployment. H2O.ai’s...

Intraoperative Imaging Becomes Vital HIT Infrastructure Tool

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The intraoperative imaging market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5 percent through 2021 as healthcare organizations seek to add the solutions to their health IT infrastructure, according to a recent...

Cloud Foundry Aims to Solve Healthcare Developer Shortage

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Cloud Foundry Foundation announced its plan to solve the impending shortage of developers by launching its cloud-naïve developer certification initiative, called the Cloud Foundry Certified...

HIT Applications Management Eased by Containers as a Service

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare organizations move toward virtualized health IT infrastructure solutions, containers-as-a-service (CaaS) are becoming a popular option deploying and managing containers, HIT applications,...

Low-Code App Development Frees Up Health IT Developers

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Low-code application development platforms are gaining popularity in the healthcare industry as clinicians are becoming more mobile and demand applications. Organizations are presented with the option...

Healthcare Data Storage Options: On-Premise, Cloud and Hybrid Data Storage

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are building their IT infrastructures to be more flexible and scalable to meet the growing data demand. With value-based incentives for data analytics and the increased number of connected medical devices...

Red Hat Collaborates with IBM, Achieves NIST Certification

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

This week Red Hat announced a new collaboration with IBM Cloud and added a new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certification for OpenSCAP 1.2. IBM and Red Hat joined in a...

IBM Launches Enterprise IT Infrastructure Blockchain Solution

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced the release of IBM Blockchain, an enterprise-ready blockchain service based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric version 1.0. The new blockchain service is based on IMB...

DRaaS Critical to Recovering HIT Infrastructure Downtime

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As health IT infrastructure datacenters collect more information from mobile and connected medical devices, organizations are faced with making sure all the data is backed up in the event of a system...

Rack Servers Assist Flexible HIT Infrastructure Datacenters

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are often faced with deciding on how to successfully deploy their datacenters as new HIT infrastructure solutions demand more flexible and scalable environments. Many...

Healthcare IaaS Deployments Call for Managed Cloud Services

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations relying on public cloud, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) are faced with the task of managing all aspects of the cloud, which can become increasingly complicated as more...

Better Patient Care Helps Advance Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Health IT infrastructure solutions are continuing to grow as organizations seek advanced technology to cut down on costs while adhering to regulatory requirements necessary to protect patient...

HIT Infrastructure Mobility Solutions Rise with IoT, Telehealth

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The healthcare mobility solutions market is expected to grow significantly as organizations continue to digitize their HIT infrastructures. The rising demand for mobile healthcare solutions is one of...

Cloud Information Management Systems Aid HIT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Information management systems have become a staple for HIT infrastructure as organizations have shifted from paper records to electronic health records (EHRs). The increase in government initiatives...

Identity Governance and Admin Protects HIT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Gartner released its latest Magic Quadrant report that highlights the need for identity governance and administration (IGA), which is especially significant to HIT infrastructure when organizations...

Fog Computing Improves Healthcare Cloud for IoT Adoption

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare organizations implement more Internet of Things (IoT) technology into their health IT infrastructures, the healthcare cloud needs to be able to reach all aspects of the infrastructure to...

PokitDok, Merck, Orion Make AWS Announcements at HIMSS17

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

HIMSS17 was not short on Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcements as vendors touched on plans to utilize the service to bring more flexibility and continence to their health IT infrastructure solutions....

IBM, Dell EMC Release Improved Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM and Dell EMC made recent announcements on simplifying their respective hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions. IBM is accelerating hybrid cloud adoption by providing its business partners access to...