Hard to believe but HIMSS18 is behind us now. It was a terrific show with a lot of talk about how digital transformation is impacting Health Information Technology (HIT) and healthcare in both expected, and unexpected, ways. Our team led a panel discussion Preparing Your HIT Infrastructure for Digital Pathology and Beyond, about network and infrastructure requirements to support the data elements 30–60x larger than digitized radiology images. Including access, analysis, storage, disaster recovery, security and regulatory requirements.
Our panel – Dr. Cody Bumgardner and Jan Bates of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine/UK Healthcare, and Tony Thomas, president and CEO of Windstream — did a follow up interview with Colin Hung, editor of Healthcare Scene which put digital pathology, the impact of healthcare transformation overall, and relationship to patient and staff experience, into sharp perspective.
Colin Hung, editor of Healthcare Scene; Jan Bates, Systems Operations Director, University of Kentucky Healthcare; Dr. Cody Bumgardner, Prof. of Pathology and Director of Informatics, University of Kentucky School of Medicine; and Tony Thomas, President & CEO, Windstream
I’d encourage you to take a look, but if you need a quick summary, here are three key takeaways:
Is your HIT organization ready for digital transformation?
Fortunately, network technology is advancing sufficiently to keep up with the demands of digital pathology. In healthcare IT – as in all other forms of IT supporting dramatically new, innovative, data-intensive initiatives – software-defined WAN solutions, like our own fully-managed SD-WAN Concierge, provide the affordable bandwidth and increased uptime required by digital pathology, and similarly intensive, time sensitive applications. We talked with a variety of HIT leaders at the show about this and would welcome the opportunity to learn about your organization’s goals and discuss ways to help start or accelerate your digital transformation journey.
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