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Accelerating Healthcare Ops with IBM Cloud

Key Points

  • Clinicians spend years turning vast medical research into concise seven‑ or eight‑page order‑set checklists, cutting the typical 17‑year evidence‑to‑practice cycle down to about three months.
  • Managing personal health information (PHI) demands strict data residency, encryption‑at‑rest, and heavyweight on‑premise infrastructure, which quickly becomes a resource drain.
  • Partnering with IBM for infrastructure‑as‑a‑service (IaaS) and platform‑as‑a‑service (PaaS) offloads server‑level responsibilities and ensures constant support and expertise.
  • By offloading the underlying infrastructure to IBM, the internal DevOps team can focus on building developer tools and accelerating application delivery rather than maintaining Kubernetes clusters or hardware.
  • The result is faster turnaround times for client‑facing applications and a scalable, secure environment that aligns with stringent healthcare data compliance.

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# Accelerating Healthcare Ops with IBM Cloud **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ihndG4_FQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ihndG4_FQM) **Duration:** 00:02:00 ## Summary - Clinicians spend years turning vast medical research into concise seven‑ or eight‑page order‑set checklists, cutting the typical 17‑year evidence‑to‑practice cycle down to about three months. - Managing personal health information (PHI) demands strict data residency, encryption‑at‑rest, and heavyweight on‑premise infrastructure, which quickly becomes a resource drain. - Partnering with IBM for infrastructure‑as‑a‑service (IaaS) and platform‑as‑a‑service (PaaS) offloads server‑level responsibilities and ensures constant support and expertise. - By offloading the underlying infrastructure to IBM, the internal DevOps team can focus on building developer tools and accelerating application delivery rather than maintaining Kubernetes clusters or hardware. - The result is faster turnaround times for client‑facing applications and a scalable, secure environment that aligns with stringent healthcare data compliance. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ihndG4_FQM&t=0s) **Accelerating Clinical Best Practices with IBM Cloud** - The speaker explains how leveraging IBM's IaaS/PaaS solutions and secure data handling lets clinicians condense decades‑long research cycles into three‑month order sets, while ensuring privacy and infrastructure reliability. ## Full Transcript
0:03if a doctor spent 26 hours a day reading 0:06that's how long it take for him to keep 0:08up with how much informations come in on 0:10terms of best practices and even the 0:12best practices when do people do the 0:13research it takes them about 17 plus 0:16years before even comes to a best 0:18practice at the hospital our clinicians 0:20our doctors and nurses and pharmacists 0:22take all this medical research and best 0:24practices and condense it down to maybe 0:26a seven or eight page actual order set 0:28our checklist for the doctor to use at 0:30the bedside with order sets it allows us 0:33to basically take that shorten that 0:3517-year gift lifecycle down to roughly 0:37about three months because we do with pH 0:39I data personal health information you 0:42have to take it very seriously and when 0:44it comes to data residency encryption at 0:46rest all the stuff there and all built 0:48in-house as we grew it became way more 0:53work and a lot of work a lot of ities 0:54required to actually support our own 0:56servers our infrastructure the solutions 0:59we're using with IBM are specifically 1:01infrastructure as a service and platform 1:03as a service working with IBM has been 1:06great they're always available to us and 1:09they're always listening to us and what 1:12we need and getting the right people to 1:14help us solve our problems of day to day 1:16basis all those server issues that we 1:18known deal with Maya's perspective has 1:20been all covered by IBM even with the 1:22comfort of platform the service you know 1:24even running our own kubernetes cluster 1:25we thought about that for even a bit but 1:28you know not to have to worry about 1:30where that server instructor is up has 1:32allowed our DevOps team to really just 1:35focus on building tools for the 1:37developers and operations to really 1:39drive quicker turnaround times for our 1:41applications to our clients it's been a 1:44great choice from my perspective I'm 1:46working with IBM we'll continue doing 1:48that 1:58you