What’s Keeping HealthIT From Soaring to the Cloud? – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by David Fuller (@genkidave) on the topic of “What’s Keeping HealthIT From Soaring to the Cloud?.”

Premise and Private HealthIT architectures have ruled in healthcare and were unfortunately reinforced by the timing of ACA/HITECH. Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and other cloud-native approaches are revolutionizing all industries, and while for some somewhat valid reasons Healthcare has been slow to adopt the Cloud it’s now firmly ripe for transformation. So what are the forces keeping HealthIT from soaring to the Cloud? And how will cloud adoption in other industries and also within certain sectors of the healthcare landscape such as pharma and insurance give HealthIT the lift it needs to get off The Ground and into The Cloud?

Join us as we dive into this topic during this week’s #HITsm chat using the following questions.

Topics for This Week’s #HITsm Chat:

T1: How do premise and cloud-native HealthIT strategies differ? #HITsm

T2: What’s gained by moving HealthIT from premise-based designs to hosted, virtual and private cloud architectures? #HITsm

T3: What cyber-security concerns are keeping Cloud-native HealthIT from soaring? And how can these concerns be overcome? #HITsm

T4: Once HealthIT is truly in the Cloud what can HealthIT professionals see and do better than they can on ‘The Ground’? #HITsm

T5: What are the pros/cons of Cloud ‘dev-ops’ model and Ground ‘upgrade/migration’ IT deployment models? #HITsm

Bonus: How quickly will HealthIT professionals have to adopt pervasive Cloud-native HealthIT architectures? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
12/22 – Holiday Break

12/29 – Holiday Break

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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