The current agenda is clear: wherever possible, reduce costs and improve quality-of-care services. These directives are in perfect alignment with the role of virtual and cloud computing infrastructure technologies, which help to lower costs and increase clinician productivity while future-proofing IT investments. As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right information technology (IT) platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. It will determine the ease or di!culty of updating existing applications and managing new ones. It will also serve as a foundation to help ensure that all healthcare services are secure, accessible and easy enough for citizens to access and use.

The healthcare sector is adopting enterprise hybrid cloud across the provider, payer, and life sciences segments with the goal of improving the quality of care, reducing costs, and increasing responsiveness to risk. This industry brief goes over some results of the CIO Global Cloud Computing Adoption Study, a recent survey by IDG Research, and outlines the common hybrid cloud use cases for healthcare organizations. It also details a real-world example of how cloud computing is being used to achieve greater business agility.

Facing pressure to reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and achieve mission goals, government agencies and other organizations are moving forward with their cloud adoption strategies. Many organizations want the security and exclusivity of a private cloud with the pay-as-you-go economic model of a public cloud. Hear about how you can have all the commercial advantages of the public cloud while satisfying your need to mitigate risk and keep data secure.

With the current interest in electronic health records and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, healthcare organizations need to use new technologies to reduce costs, improve performance and accelerate efforts to achieve meaningful use. Hear how you can leverage the cloud, and what you should be doing now to understand your options and related risks.

Watch this informative video to learn more about EXTENSION's most popular clinical workflow solutions for nurses and physicians inluding nurse call integration, mobile critical lab notifications, mobile report availability, mobile STAT order notifications, HIPAA-compliant texting and more. EXTENSION's mobile point-of-care solutions improve staff satisfaction, patient safety, and HCAHPS scores.

Healthcare is dominated by the need for the sharing of detailed patient information as a result of today's information age. But it's also the focal point of the debate of how information is shared versus protecting the need for privacy, security and confidentiality. Data protection is paramount in today’s virtual environment and implementing a Secure Information Exchange (SIE) now will help organizations save both themselves and their patients down the road.

A recent survey of IT executives found nearly 90% see business value in transitioning to Cloud computing, but only 20% have a plan to get there. Healthcare Cloud solutions require Compliance, Security, Privacy, Redundancy, and Scalability, so choosing the right path from on-premises servers to the Cloud can be daunting. Learn how to chart a quick and affordable course to healthcare Cloud Computing and how to choose the right Cloud services partner.

Healthcare IT professionals are under pressure to deliver complex applications with high performance and security, while tight budgets demand cost reduction initiatives. For this reason, healthcare IT professionals will seek service-based offerings that reduce the infrastructure burden on their organizations while reducing operating costs and the associated capital investment. Labor represents the single largest cost for healthcare providers, and workforce management applications are key to monitoring and managing this cost. Workforce management applications are mature, installed solutions at most healthcare providers; many have an opportunity to outsource their application hosting, management, maintenance, and support to qualified service providers. To maintain workforce management applications and services while leveraging IT staff for new clinical implementations, provider IT departments will seek cloud-based cloud service options that preserve service levels for employees and managers using workforce management applications.

Information Transforms Healthcare. As a Provider, you collect more data than ever before, from EMRs, patient surveys, home monitoring, to imaging. Collaborating on patient care is difficult at best—there’s so much data, it can’t easily be shared and it’s often incomplete. And new insights can only be derived from relevant information. IT executives can close the gap between maintenance and innovation budgets and deliver clinically relevant, operationally efficient, and fiscally sound solutions for the business. How? With a proven IT infrastructure that allows you to securely take advantage of newly digitized data.