Healthcare providers have been on the front line during the pandemic facing new challenges regularly, and we thank the healthcare professionals for everything they do. Another side of the healthcare industry that is “behind the scenes” is the IT and OT professionals. These IT and OT professionals are working day in and day out, ensuring the systems that the doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals are using to do their jobs perform as expected. This includes staying on top of a constantly expanding array of edge computing systems.
As we all know, a lot has changed in the last year or so, including what healthcare used to define as the edge. Before the pandemic, the edge used to refer to doctor’s offices and clinics. Now, the edge has expanded to include people’s homes, mobile devices and even temporary Healthcare facilities.
There are countless examples of the challenges healthcare providers are experiencing. The below examples are just a few.
- Constructing temporary hospital spaces
- Mobile bed space
- Mobile testing stations
In the above examples, IT professionals must provide many things for these solutions to work, such as providing network connectivity and computing and storage infrastructure to support a new, distributed and mobile Healthcare model, creating plenty of challenges for IT and OT professionals supporting these initiatives.
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