Craig Richardville attends HIMSS annual conference

LAS VEGAS - July 29, 2018 - PRLog -- HIMSS Annual Conference held it's cloud computing conference.

One of the speakers, Pam DeSalvo Landis,Vice President, Information and Analytics Services from Atrium Health. With 900+ locations, Atrium Health is one of the largest and most progressive providers on the East Coast, and has embraced the cloud. It is the only healthcare system in North and South Carolina to achieve HIMSS EMR Adoption Model Stage 7 for both acute and ambulatory care. It has been named a "Most Wired" hospital for 13 consecutive years. It is a leader in data analytics strategy. And, in 2015, Senior Vice President Craig Richardville was named the CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS.

"Healthcare in the cloud is such an important and relevant topic. It is my honor and pleasure to attend this event," says Craig Richardville.

Carolinas also plans to be fully in the cloud by 2019.

Atrium Health Vice President of Information Services Pam Landis discussed at the conference:

• The cost of hosting and storage has come down and "people don't care where the data sits."
• The cloud provides great disaster recovery and high availability.
• Cloud computing cuts down on the need to constantly replace equipment and frees up staff to focus on other work.
• Security concerns have been addressed.
This is the only event dedicated to Healthcare in the Cloud.
Additional topics discussed at the conference included: Cloud strategy fundamentals: developing a solid roadmap for your enterprise; Busting the cloud security myth; Determining which applications you should prioritize for the cloud; Leveraging the cloud to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency;  Scalability and disaster recovery planning; Strategic capabilities for beginning, intermediate, and advances cloud users;  Enhanced interoperability;  Privacy, security, and compliance; Evaluating cloud services; Data ownership;  Public? Private? Hybrid? Help.

For more information, go to https://www.hitcloudforum.com/las-vegas/2018/overview