A couple of weeks ago, we were given the opportunity to present CloudPrime at the IBM Impact Cloud Zone in Las Vegas. It was a great week, filled with a lot of interesting conversations.

We want to send a big thank you to Ann Saydah at IBM and her team for organizing the event and giving us the chance to showcase CloudPrime’s business messaging service in the Cloud Zone. Along with exhibiting in the Cloud Zone, we were given the opportunity to talk about how CloudPrime is transforming business messaging during the Rapid Fire session. (If we get a chance to share the video of our 4-minutes of fame, we will post it here on our blog.)

It was also exciting for CloudPrime to officially announce it’s multi-year partnership at the conference that enables MQ customers to extend their messaging footprint. We are looking forward to working with IBM and it goes without saying this is a really exciting time at CloudPrime!

Our customers need resilient, secure and easy-to-deploy application  messaging solutions that meet their changing demands. As more and more buzz around the cloud, application migration, security and compliance percolate to the surface, CloudPrime has peaked the interest of more and more CIOs and Infrastructure Managers.

Transform: CloudPrime enables enterprises of all sizes and industries to transform how they connect applications. Our cloud-based infrastructure provides scalability, embedded security, resliency and economies of scale. Because of the Cloud, our customers can rely on a service based messaging infrastructure, allowing managers to focus on mission critical tasks instead of deploying and managing costly VPNs and hardware.

Manage and Serve: As a service, CloudPrime provides a robust network that guarantees the delivery of every message as well as providing “military grade” security and encryption.

Build: With CloudPrime you can build application interfaces in minutes regardless of the application or transport protocol.

Consume: CloudPrime’s application messaging services are easy to consume and do not require any hardware installation or IT training.

To learn more about CloudPrime and the advantages of our Cloud-based application messaging service, visit https://cloudprime.net/cloudprime-about.php

Mr. Lohr, great article and thank you for covering this topic.

Any story about hospitals taking steps towards connectivity is great, but I fear that most think that connectivity is a little easier than it really is, that it’s just a matter of getting everyone together. Integrating hospital systems is challenging enough, but it’s “everyone else” that will pose the greatest challenges and thus making connectivity a fragile vision if it cannot be streamlined for smaller practices, independent physicians, clinical labs, etc.
Mr. Lohr points out that only 25% of physician practices today are computerized, and that should improve given incentive payments and consequences for non-compliance. However, the real issue is that we are putting the carriage before the horse; physicians will adopt patient management systems, EHRs, and EMRs, but the connectivity piece will still be unanswered. Furthermore, smaller practices and physician groups most likely will not understand why it is that further steps for compliance need to be taken as most of them are being educated (by the very software vendors selling them their wares) that if they merely install software that allows them to manage patient data digitally, they are going to get compensated.
Recently on a call with a hospital CIO, we discussed how they had to put a connectivity project on hold because of the 200 physician practices outside of her hospital she had to bring onto the network, only 120 had EMRs and none of them wanted to deal with having to deploy and manage a VPN. Seems trivial, but the reality is that doctors are doctors 1st and anything not related to treating patients is a distraction and is perceived to decrease their bottom line (In the Docs’ defense, VPNs are a blunt instrument and I don’t blame them).
Healthcare connectivity is a long, windy road that needs better planning, better ideas, and better solutions. The Direct Project sponsored by NHIN is a great foundation for simplifying and standardizing connectivity, but this battle also needs to be won with hearts and minds.