Efficient, reliable, enterprise-scale, backup, recovery, and archiving are essential to meet HIPAA requirements, recover from security and downtime events, and achieve compliance. With floods of data pouring out of imaging systems, VNAs, EMRs, EHRs, and legacy applications, healthcare IT storage experts and CIOs are hard-pressed to ensure that all systems are protected and compliance standards are being met. Cloud solutions are offering unprecedented flexibility and choice when it comes to sourcing these IT solutions. Examine the options for building a hybrid cloud unique to the needs of your hospital using on-premises private cloud technology, managed private cloud services, and public cloud offerings that meets the security, reliability, and compliance requirements of healthcare today. Jim Fitzgerald, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer will lead a panel presentation to share the use cases, economic and technical benefits, and deployment strategies that can put hybrid cloud solutions to work quickly and inexpensively for healthcare organizations. Jim Fitzgerald is Chief Strategy Officer of CloudWave, responsible for technology solutions strategy, development, and quality spanning the entire CloudWave portfolio of Technology Integration, Technical Consulting, and Cloud Services. Jim is passionate about helping hospitals developing the right mixture of local and cloud-delivered services in order to achieve operational sustainability. Jim holds a B.A. in Psychology from Bates College and an M.B.A. with high distinction and a concentration in technology from Babson College. Jacob Wheeler, Cloud Product Manager, manages the development, roadmap, lifecycle, marketing, and feature definition of new products and services. Responsible for CloudWave’s growing suite of public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, Jacob remains focused on the customer experience, working to understand what problems face healthcare IT users and helping to build services to meet these challenges. Mark Middleton serves as Vice President of Cloud Services at CloudWave. Mark served 29 years at CHRISTUS Health in the fields of Biomedical Engineering and Information Technology, leading projects such as a $30 million data center build, relocations, centralization of IT operations, and operating one of the largest MEDITECH Client/Server 5.X implementations in the nation. Mark’s current work is the delivery of cloud-based service offerings to enable MEDITECH customers to provide sustainable and cost effective operations for their facilities. Mark is a multi-time finalist in the Data Center Executive Excellence Awards and holds degrees in Biomedical Technology and Business Administration, as well as the highest level ITIL Expert Certification.
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