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The Middle East region remains a highly competitive one for businesses in all industries , including healthcare . Healthcare institutions have faced multiple challenges in their technology systems with many of their OEM and solution vendor operating in silos and with proprietary systems .

Healthcare institutions are therefore challenged while considering migrating their clinical solutions to the cloud as many of their applications are not cloud ready . However all this is changing in the face of digital transformation .

In this month ’ s lead feature we understand how Oracle Cerner is building a cloud migration path for institutions like King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai , through its remote hosting option and by utilising the second generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure set up in the Dubai Cloud region .

Says Romel Khalife at Oracle Cerner , “ The project we are embarking on with King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai is to move their on-premises , client-hosted technology stack onto the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in a PaaS model deployment .”

In other words , institutions like King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai , do not need to wait for all their application to be fully cloud ready . The hosting service by Oracle Cerner gives them the benefits of a secure and ready , public cloud offering , allowing the Hospital to pass on these benefits to their patients and operational staff .

Turn these pages for more on this implementation roll out .

In our CIO Opinion section , Aruba HPE ’ s Jacob Chacko points out CFOs need to start relooking at purchase of their network assets and consider Network as a Service . The advantages of Network as a Service exceed those of asset purchases or leasing and CFOs need to begin their diligence here .

The network had previously fallen within the capex model , but NaaS flips it over to opex , writes Chacko . With NaaS , you no longer purchase and maintain the network ; you consume the network as a service . The last 8 years has seen us jump from Wi-Fi 5 through Wi-Fi 6 and now into Wi-Fi 6E , with shorter and shorter technology cycles driving the change .

Moving forward , in one of our most thumbed sections we invited responses from the industry on : Describe the approach CIOs and IT decision-makers need to adopt to begin their journey in the automation of processes and operations across the enterprise . And received informative responses from executives of Omnix Digital , Fortinet , and HPE .

All this and our range of thought leadership blogs , news , and trends in the pages ahead .

Happy reading and blessings for this holy month .

Arun Shankar Managing Editor arun @ lynchpinmedia . com

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