Over the course of the last twenty years, the computing giants that we know and love have lead healthcare informatics experts, policy makers, and IT decision makers into a vertically integrated ditch that keeps getting deeper. This talk will explore what this means for our businesses, our cybersecurity strategies, and the effort to modernize digital health.

We have all heard the pitch: “Move your data to the cloud; the cloud will help you improve the delivery of and quality of care.” We have all heard the value propositions: “The cloud makes data sharing and collaboration easier, it makes data continuity and storage automatic, and it can help improve data analysis.”  However, is this really the case? Have companies, that once sold hardware and software, vertically integrated their services in order to grow their Healthcare IT businesses?

This talk will explore the following topics with respect to cybersecurity:

• What does healthcare informatics have to learn from:
  • Banks and credit card companies that have changed the way in they use the cloud for PCI data over the last 10 years.
  • The Equifax Hack.
  • Illegal music and movie sharing and pirating.
  • Block chain and crypto currencies.
  • What are the technical benefits of the cloud, and when is it worth using?