| | March 20179CIOReviewVirtualization, cloud, and the fierce demand of our clinicians, patients, and families for a mobile experience are drastically changing the way health care IT is designed and deliveredapplications. Subsequently making those applications much more performant, reducing the time our health care providers need to spend interacting with technology. Ipso facto, making the technology more transparent to our clinical partners.Once you have your desktop virtualization in place, you'll be incredibly surprised about how many problems it solves for you. Of course, there's the data leakage problem it solves (no data can move out of the virtualized environment) but the bigger issues it helps you deal with are the dual issues of working from home and bring your own device (BYOD).The ability to offer a standard work from home solution is critical in this time, where ubiquitous access is becoming the norm, especially with the millennial generation. Being able to access a desktop with access to our electronic medical record at any time, through any device, enhances our care providers' abilities to give patients the kind of service they've come to expect from other industries. Virtualization and the work-from-home capability helps us increase our competitive advantage and evolve with the changing needs of our stakeholders.A cardiologist can now easily check the record of a patient at 3 a.m. from the comfort of their home and write orders to alleviate pain or enhance the healing process. Better remote access does not necessarily increase the working hours in a day, it allows flexibility in schedules that can contribute to a more well-balanced life for our care providers and more timely health care for our patients and families.Our vision to make technology as transparent as possible is rounded out by our mobility strategy. Virtualization, cloud, and mobile is the way we are challenging the team to think. Using cloud technology from Citrix and Microsoft allows us to capitalize on the fact that a mobile phone in the pocket or purse of every human is quickly becoming a reality. The cloud keeps our data secure, but accessible from any device our care team chooses to use. Smartphones have introduced applications to run our lives and will continue to become more and more relevant. The easier we can make the delivery of patient data to our care providers through their mobile devices, the more informed they can be, which can lead to better real-time decisions about patient care. Even the most time-starved physician can locate their mobile device immediately and respond, if needed, to the situation. Our goal is to ensure technology is not a barrier but an enhancement to the services we provide. Healthcare has traditionally been slower to adopt cutting edge technology, but will be forced to adjust as clinician and consumer demands put pressure on all industries to deliver what we want, when we want it. Virtualization, the advent of the cloud, and the demand of our clinicians, patients, are changing the way health care IT is designed and delivered. Personally, I can't wait and hope you and your organization are prepared for the imminent shift in the technological landscape of health care information technology.
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