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HIMSS17 lunch and learn with Amazon Web Services

Picture of Hoala Greevy Hoala Greevy February 21, 2017

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Conference attendees at a lunch and learn event with a presentation screen displaying Amazon Web Services partners.

Yesterday I attended a lunch and learn with Amazon Web Services and Infor: "Using The Cloud To Improve Security In Healthcare." It was a pretty packed room to hear Todd Brock, Cloud Enterprise Architect for Infor and Oxana Pickeral, Global Healthcare Segment Leader for AWS.

 Infographic showing cloud statistics: 7,000+ customers globally, ISO/HIPAA/SSAE16 compliance, 62 million users, 40+ cloud applications, 90+ countries, 99.9% uptime. Infor at a Glance

 

My Takeaways for HIMSS17 AWS Lunch and Learn

  • There are 30,000 partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN).
  • Infor has been with AWS over 10 yrs.
  • 600% uptick in cloud sales year over year (Infor).
  • 54% of healthcare organizaitons have little/no faith they can detect a breach.
  • Panda group in China believed to be behind Anthem breach.
  • Infor all in on the cloud and all in on AWS.
  • FedRamp certification is a deep dive. Highest federal cert available.
  • Infor Labs: Specific cloud expertise, 100% cloud.
  • "The way to stay alive is by being in the cloud." Infor CEO
  • Infor uses 3 different White Hat hacker firms for penetration testing.
  • Info spent over $1B to rebuild entire solution set in AWS over past 5 yrs.
  • Infor: 7,000 total customers, all but 10 in AWS cloud. 1,000 Healthcare customers.
  • APN Best Practices: Architect Review; Climb tiers; have lots of customer success references that are industry specific; have a solid solution.

 

SEE ALSO: HIMSS 2017 - My Takeaways (Day 3)

SEE ALSO: HIMSS17 Orlando – Our Social Mixer (Day 2)

SEE ALSO: HIMSS17 Orlando – My Takeaways (Day 1)

 Slide on healthcare security breaches listing incidents from Presence Health, Banner Health, Anthem, Premera Blue Cross, UCLA, and statistics on patient identity theft and breach detection confidence Scary Stats on Healthcare Security

 

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