Health care cloud architecture

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is going GA

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare pulls together Microsoft products such as Microsoft 365, Azure and Microsoft Dynamics as well as partner products in one place. Continue Reading

Azure IoT Connector now readies IoMT data for use

Microsoft is previewing a tool that standardizes IoMT data for the clinical setting. Continue Reading

Pros and cons of healthcare organizations moving to the cloud

Whether you've already adopted the public cloud or are still considering making the move, read these pros and cons to ensure your healthcare organization is getting the benefits. Continue Reading

Infor buys Intelligent InSites for real-time location capabilities

The acquisition will add a new layer to Infor CloudSuite Healthcare and better position the ERP vendor to take on competitors like Epic. Continue Reading

Amazon healthcare strategy is built on pilot projects

Amazon may be known as an online retail giant. But the company has its sights set on something else: healthcare. Continue Reading

New Salesforce Health Cloud tools help life sciences close customer gap

Salesforce rolled out new features for Health Cloud focused primarily on the life sciences. The goal is to help those kinds of companies get closer to their customers. Continue Reading

Before partnering with tech giants, healthcare CIOs should look within

To partner with tech giants or not to partner with tech giants? Gartner analyst Laura Craft offers advice on how healthcare CIOs can think through that question. Continue Reading

Healthcare cloud induces benefits in storage, security

Healthcare sees value in vacating the premises and migrating to the cloud for lower maintenance costs and better storage, disaster recovery, security, AI and analytics. Continue Reading

Amazon introduces Alexa in healthcare with HIPAA-compliant skills

Amazon launching HIPAA-compliant skills for Alexa in healthcare expands the realm of service that hospitals and other healthcare organizations can provide their customers at home. Continue Reading

5 HIPAA requirements healthcare cloud providers should meet

Cloud service providers that have healthcare clients must be aware of and comply with HIPAA to ensure the privacy and security of health data. Continue Reading

5 healthcare technology trends CIOs should watch in 2019

Artificial intelligence and blockchain will continue to make a splash in 2019 as top trends for healthcare CIOs to watch. VR, analytics and hybrid cloud also deserve attention. Continue Reading

At RSNA 2018, Google Cloud exec talks customer and product strategy

In this Q&A from RSNA 2018, Google Cloud's Greg Moore touts product strengths and expresses his hope that Google products can help the healthcare industry achieve 'positive digital transformation.' Continue Reading

New effort seeks to standardize business associates agreements

To get new technology into hospitals faster, the Digital Health Collaborative wants to standardize security risk assessments and business associates agreements. Continue Reading

What's behind the increased use of cloud services in healthcare?

The healthcare industry is getting over its fear of the cloud and beginning to adopt services like cloud-based EHRs for easy access to patient data on the go. Continue Reading

How hospitals are using the cloud for medical image storage

Advancements in medical imaging means larger files and an increased demand for greater storage capacity. The cloud offers a reprieve for healthcare organizations. Continue Reading

Medicare's new member of its healthcare data center: The cloud

The U.S. Digital Service is slowly moving a Medicare mainframe to the cloud as a way to prepare for value-based care. Here's a look inside the office's deliberate strategy. Continue Reading

To get secure cloud storage in healthcare, gauge risks first

Conducting a risk assessment before moving to the cloud and establishing security controls when you get there are key steps toward achieving cloud security, experts say. Continue Reading

To get secure cloud storage in healthcare, gauge risks first

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Medical group sees the future in value-based healthcare

The fee-for-service healthcare payment model is broken, according to the CEO of a medical group. The better model, and the path to better patient care, he says, is value-based care. Continue Reading

IoT may bring the promise of connected healthcare to life

Can the promise of the internet of things bring order to chaos when it comes to true healthcare interoperability? Two different attempts are underway. Continue Reading

Pharmacy benefit manager turns to analytics to fight healthcare fraud

To be able to detect fraud in healthcare more quickly and accurately, a pharmacy benefit manager is turning to advanced data analytics, allowing it to integrate pharmacy and medical claims. Continue Reading

Components of a cloud-based healthcare disaster recovery plan

As more healthcare organizations turn to the cloud for disaster recovery, IT must address HIPAA requirements and connectivity to ensure data is protected in a DR scenario. Continue Reading

Google, Fitbit, startups storm into healthcare AI

Google is moving quickly into healthcare, forging alliances with Fitbit and selling AI services to smaller health IT vendors. Meanwhile, Fitbit is expanding into healthcare. Continue Reading

Guide to examples of cloud computing in healthcare

The potential of cloud computing in healthcare can no longer be understated as cloud providers step up their security features and undergo testing to ensure HIPAA compliance. Continue Reading

Reprimand on healthcare and cloud computing spurs HIMSS debate

The benefits of the cloud are well-known, as is the healthcare industry's wariness about moving patient data to the cloud. At the HIMSS conference, the deliberations expanded. Continue Reading

HIPAA-eligible services nudge enterprises toward compliance

While certain services on AWS can help you ensure HIPAA compliance, don't view them as a complete replacement for proper security checks and approval processes. Continue Reading

AI a big data benefit for moving to the cloud for healthcare

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AI a big data benefit for moving to the cloud for healthcare

Providers and big vendors are wary, but healthcare in the cloud and the benefits artificial intelligence provides will spur a shift from on-premises systems for analyzing EHRs. Continue Reading

Medical imaging data enables modern healthcare strategies

Medical images make up a large percentage of healthcare data. Providers can draw insights from that data to make better decisions about patient care. Continue Reading

Medical imaging storage strategies aim for the cloud

Three health IT pros look at the challenges to full-blown cloud adoption and explain why hybrid cloud is a popular approach to storing medical images. Continue Reading

Medical image storage sharpens focus on precise patient care

Personal photos in an album can conjure up all sorts of memories and emotions. Then there are personal photos of another kind that can mean the difference between life and death. In healthcare, clinical images of patients are critical to proper diagnosis and treatment. Once placed in envelopes and stored on metal shelves, those images -- be they X-rays, CT scans or MRIs -- now come in digital formats and have proliferated to the point where on-premises storage is cumbersome and inefficient. Hospital CIOs see the cloud as the answer to medical image storage and improved patient care by providing doctors with quick and ready access to medical images.

In the January issue of Pulse, our editor's letter takes that capability one step further, allowing IT pros to perform medical image analytics that can add a whole new dimension to population health management and precision medicine. Along those lines, our cover story examines the growing healthcare trend of vacating the premises … but not entirely. Security, privacy and control issues have prevented CIOs from going fully to the cloud. Instead, they're opting for hybrid cloud architectures. In another feature, we stress the importance of readily accessible and well-organized medical image storage in the cloud to make analytics performance more efficient and better at determining patient outcomes for individuals and large populations.

Also in this issue, we highlight the benefits of using a hybrid cloud storage approach to mine and analyze vast amounts of critical data from those images. Beneficial features include security, file activity monitoring, data loss prevention, data mining, disaster recovery, storage bursting, tiering, testing and cost controls.

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Store medical images using hybrid cloud data storage

Hospitals that face an influx of medical imaging data can benefit from a hybrid cloud model to store data and enable disaster recovery services. Continue Reading

Store medical images using hybrid cloud data storage

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Dell EMC World: Virtustream cloud launches for healthcare

New Dell EMC cloud storage has appeared on the horizon, providing a silver lining for IT-pressed healthcare shops. Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, which launched this week at Dell EMC World 2017, is ... Continue Reading

How Salesforce Health Cloud changes patient care

Salesforce Health Cloud gives healthcare providers access to patient data, including medical treatments and care plans, to improve care plans -- and it does this securely. Here's how. Continue Reading

Cloud medical imaging storage is the way of the future

PACS and VNAs are the image storage standards in healthcare. Cloud medical imaging storage presents benefits that may intrigue healthcare providers to ditch PACS and VNAs. Continue Reading

The diverse use cases for cloud in healthcare

Healthcare cloud services come in various forms, including analytics models and system backups. Those are two of the reasons cloud has the attention of health IT professionals. Continue Reading

Physician's wish: EHR usability 'Easy as using an iPhone'

What physicians need, says Brigham & Women's Hospital CMIO Adam Landman, M.D., is a high-usability EHR that doesn't require instructions. Continue Reading