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IBM, UK Sign Public Cloud Agreement to Boost Essential Services

August 13, 2020 - Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and IBM recently signed a three-year public cloud agreement that will allow public sector organizations like the National Health Service (NHS) to innovate with digital solutions and services to help evolve essential services for UK citizens.  Through IBM’s public cloud, organizations in highly regulated...

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Google Cloud Launches Healthcare API During the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud recently announced it created a Cloud Healthcare API to improve data interoperability and give providers real-time access to health data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The API will allow...

Oracle Expands Cloud Infrastructure Business with 2,000 New Hires

by Fred Donovan

Oracle, which provides cloud computing services to Adventist Health, Emblem Health, Glens Falls Hospital, and other healthcare organizations, is expanding its cloud infrastructure business by hiring...

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...

SAP Launches Accelerator Program with 7 Health IT Startups

by Fred Donovan

SAP unveiled this week its healthcare-focused accelerator program at SAP.iO Foundry New York with the selection of seven health IT startups. SAP.iO will provide the startups access to SAP technology...

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...

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...

More Healthcare Organizations To Adopt Hybrid Cloud Computing

by Fred Donovan

The healthcare industry is increasingly adopting hybrid cloud models, according to a survey of more than 2,300 IT decision makers by VansonBourne on behalf of cloud provider Nutanix. Hybrid cloud...

Building a Healthcare Cloud Strategy Prevents Overspending

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Many organizations are moving to the healthcare cloud to reduce the cost of on-premises IT infrastructure deployment. While initially deploying a new cloud infrastructure may be expensive, over time...

Cloud Management Platforms Support Multiple Cloud Environments

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are introducing more healthcare cloud tools to their IT infrastructure, making the prospect of managing them a growing challenge. Selecting a cloud management platform (CMP) can give IT...

Clinical Applications, IoT Drive Growth of Healthcare Cloud

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The healthcare cloud computing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18 percent through 2023, according the a new Markets and Markets report. The predicted growth includes applications such as EHRs,...

Considerations for Choosing Public or Private Cloud-based EHRs

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are moving different IT infrastructure applications to the cloud. Cloud-based EHRs in particular are examples of applications that are migrating the cloud. There are several...

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...

Data Demands Call for Increased Healthcare Storage Flexibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

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...

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 Object Storage Adds Scalability for Increasing Data

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare data storage continues to be a concern as the amount of data produced by patients, clinicians, and organizations grows exponentially. Sequence data is doubling every seven to nine months as...

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...

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