Network Infrastructure
Common platform + standard infrastructure + unified support = reduced variability and increased predictability.
It's crucial we recognize that what worked well before may not work well today. And it's essential to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and adapt to incremental change.
NGITS are versatile, adaptable infrastructures and engineering/operations that can incorporate new mission-advancing technologies and business processes into the enterprise as they emerge in a thoughtful, integrated way.
As an industry we've bought into the idea for too long that we can simply buy some cybersecurity tools and be safe.
Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.
While we can't afford to have redundancy in every situation due to budgets and application architectures, we can partner to understand the core technology needs and design to minimize downtime for business and clinical units.
When implemented correctly, these programs can effectively crowdsource security research and testing services to help uncover real world exploitable vulnerabilities.
While compliance-based frameworks are not without merit, it is important that they be viewed as minimum acceptable standards and not as end goals.
Before disasters, such as tornadoes or wildfires, communities should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones," where equipment and virtual-care kiosks can be moved.
Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality-of-life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity.
