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Articles by Rob Sherry
Are Pressures on Healthcare IT at an All-Time High?
In early 2022, Frost and Sullivan hosted a webinar addressing healthcare’s most pressing issues. Joined by healthcare leaders from Ochsner Health, Texas Children’s Hospital, and VMware, panelists participated in a robust discussion revisited in sections in this three-part blog series. Unprecedented pressures, and the resulting innovation, have accelerated healthcare IT investment over the last few years.
VMware at HIMSS 2022: Accelerate Healthcare Transformation
As always, VMware is incredibly excited to meet friends, colleagues, partners and “new friends we haven’t met yet” at HIMSS. This year VMware will be at booth #2121 – for reference, because we all know how big HIMSS is, head for the middle doors of the entrance, go alongside the Dell Technologies booth and head just one block in – easy! The booth will focus on three primary areas in which VMware actively helps healthcare organizations today: 1.
5 Steps Toward Building a Digital Healthcare Foundation
When everything went upside down with the onset of COVID-19, healthcare systems immediately saw the advantage of digital health technologies. Options such as telehealth made doctor appointments safe and straightforward. Physicians and care providers also discovered they could use the technology to meet their patients where they are — even when they were physically miles away. But it’s not just COVID-19 that’s driving the change in healthcare. It’s also the rising expectations of the patients.
Taking the Pulse of Healthcare IT
It’s an understatement to say COVID-19 transformed healthcare. An industry that traditionally struggled to keep pace with digital innovation implemented decades worth of tech in a few short months to meet the demands of the pandemic head-on. Whether enabling remote clinical collaboration and pop-up field hospitals or a distributed administrative workforce – there has been an underlying question about the plunge into a digital-first strategy: Is it going to last?
Let the EHR Modernization Commence
According to data provided by Definitive Healthcare, 74% of all Epic customers utilize VMware software defined data center (SDDC) solutions to host their Epic infrastructure – rising to 94% for hospitals with greater than one thousand beds. Epic customers can also leverage VMware hybrid cloud solutions to extend critical infrastructure workloads to the public cloud with VMware Cloud and Azure VMware Solution to provide new options for scalability, disaster recovery and business continuity.
A Lesson Learned: Healthcare Needs Virtualization with SD-WAN
There are many lessons to glean from the global pandemic — and undoubtedly, we’ll be studying the nation’s response efforts for years to come. We saw countless acts of heroism during the crisis — and also witnessed our healthcare ecosystem undergoing a real-time, real-world proof-of-concept demonstration of the latest technologies. Desktop virtualization proved intrinsic to care: The technology strengthened the remote and mobile capabilities of caregivers.
How VMware Helps Reinvent Federal Healthcare IT Infrastructure
Every healthcare organization, including those that are a part of the federal sector — is feeling the heat from a growing trend called the consumerization of healthcare. Some call this phenomenon the Amazon Effect, but it’s a force more significant than any one company. Consumerization is the logical outcome from everyone — including doctors and other healthcare providers — being able to quickly order a seemingly endless variety of products and services using just an app or website.
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