A New Style of IT for Health Care

edelman — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:28:34 +0000

Innovations in bioscience, new technology capabilities and an aging population are forcing the transformation of entire value chains within the health care and life science fields. Although there is general willingness to invest in innovation and technology for the sector, challenges persist: a lack of shared situational awareness in health care (at all levels) is leading to highly variable and uncertain outcomes, suboptimal workflows, medical error and generally poor patient and staff experiences compared to other industries. At the same time, a disruptive new style of IT is emerging, one that is powered by cloud and is helping to reduce costs while increasing the quality of patient care.

While traditional data centers will continue to be important to many IT customers, the cloud offers something fundamentally different: the promise of greater speed of innovation, systems people want to use (not have to use), lower costs, greater agility for all organizations and better ways for companies to serve their staff, customers and patients. HP works with customers across the health care and life science fields – from government health and human services and health care providers to health plans and pharmaceuticals and life sciences – to provide the cloud that enterprises rely on.

As the most diversified technology company in the marketplace, HP has a unique vantage point into how cloud – and, equally important, cloud in tandem with other technologies – is impacting the day-to-day operations of health care and life science organizations. HP’s cloud offering is the most flexible in the industry, and Saar Gillai will explain how customers are embracing a model that allows them to choose the solution and deployment model that is right for them – whether that is the private, public, managed cloud, or a hybrid such as HP’s converged cloud solution. This is particularly important for the health care and life science industries; for example, applications that manage or leverage protected health information are best considered for deployment to private, community or managed private clouds, while applications associated with less risk can reduce total cost of ownership by leveraging a public or semi-public cloud.

Keywords:

Converged cloud

new style of IT

health care transformation

Speaker First Name:

Saar

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Gillai

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SVP and GM of Converged Cloud

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Hewlett-Packard

Speaker Bio:

Saar Gillai is the senior vice president and general manager of Converged Cloud for Hewlett Packard, responsible for driving HP’s cloud portfolio and solutions that enable enterprises to build, operate, and consume cloud services seamlessly across traditional, public, private, and managed clouds. Previously, Gillai was vice president and general manager of Cloud Networking, where he drove the development, marketing and sales of HP Networking products and solutions for the cloud. He also served as the chief technology officer of HP Networking, responsible for developing the technology, vision, and strategy for networking. While at HP, Gillai has pioneered the technology vision and implementation for software defined networking in products such as HP Virtual Application Networks. He also created the Advanced Technology Group, which successfully incubated many innovative networking products. Gillai also played a key role in the integration of HP Networking into the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy. Prior to joining HP, Gillai was senior vice president of Worldwide Products and Solutions for 3Com, where he was responsible for defining the company’s roadmaps and long-term vision for product lines and solutions. Additionally, Gillai was a key architect in rebooting 3Com into the enterprise space and driving HP’s acquisition of 3Com. Additionally, Gillai spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a variety of leadership positions, including vice president of Engineering for the Wireless Networking business unit. He held key management positions in product development for the Desktop Switching business unit and the Multiservice Switching business unit, where he worked closely with major service providers on next-generation network architectures.

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3000 Hanover St Palo Alto, CA 94304

Nevada Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:45

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A New Style of IT for Health Care