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Nearly a half-year after announcing it was acquiring Cerner, Oracle is making headlines again – this time with plans to create a national health records database. In this piece, David Chou discusses what that could mean for CIOs and other leaders.
The decision to move to the cloud should be based on comfort, resources, and the organization’s strategic vision, and not on outside opinions, according to CISOs Todd Bell and Sahan Fernando.
One of the biggest mistakes healthcare organizations make, according to Kim Majerus of AWS, is failing to look at IT projects holistically. “It shouldn’t be a give and take,” she said. During a chat at ViVE, she also spoke about the enormous potential to leverage social determinants and why she believes healthcare is “personal.”
As a leader, the one thing you never want to say is, “I can’t do that,” said Jesse Fasolo, CISO at St. Joseph’s Health. In a recent interview, he talked about the importance of a solid infrastructure, why frameworks are critical, and how he has been able to step “two steps ahead.”
For Mission Health Communities, migrating to cloud-based CPM software helped standardize and streamline operations across finance and accounting departments, according to Gino L’Altrella.
