Cloud Computing

CEO John Flannery said the company is embarking on a digital transformation of its healthcare entity, which is  focused on cloud, data analytics, population health, imaging and more.

The IT consultancy also said IoT will skyrocket to $1.3 trillion and predicted that wearables are poised to pick up steam again.

Healthcare organizations are going to need all of them to compete and thrive in the next generation of healthcare, according to Onpointe chief medical information officer Terry Sullivan.

With a new acute-care deployment, in addition to cloud-based migration of its ChartLogic outpatient EHR, practice management and patient portal technology, "the future of healthcare IT is in cloud-based applications," says Medsphere's CEO.

Big Blue also announced new developer and governance tools for blockchain.

MedyMatch brings deep vision algorithms that combine medical knowledge with AI for clinical decision support.

Bill Maris re-emerges to create Section 32, a venture capital fund that will kick-off with $100 million and invest at least half of that in life sciences. 

Prominent healthcare execs are predicting a drastic shift from on-premise IT infrastructure into the cloud.

Healthcare IT News conducted a post-HIMSS17 survey to gauge real implementations of the conference’s big buzzwords. Respondents also revealed their favorite part of this year’s conference. 

This year's conference hit on many healthcare trends, including machine learning, analytics and population health. And then there were Dan Rather, Ginni Rometty, John Boehner and Michael Leavitt. Here are the high points, all in one place.