SIRIUS COMPUTER SOLUTIONS
Imran Salim ( Sirius Healthcare ) and Kevin Torres ( MemorialCare ) on innovating healthcare technologies in the lab
Imagine a future where smart hospital platforms facilitate treatment regardless of patient and clinician location , where patients reap the healing benefits of patient distraction devices , and clinicians are freed up from administrative tasks to focus on the patient while automation of those tasks provides more real-time , actionable data . Traditionally , healthcare has been slow to adopt new technologies either for budget reasons or lack of proof of performance . But COVID fast-tracked innovation and adoption of new healthcare technologies — there was no choice .
MemorialCare is a healthcare provider that runs the full gamut of healthcare services with numerous hospitals , freestanding urgent care centres , and dialysis centres throughout southern California . They were an existing client of Sirius Healthcare , who was helping the health system update their infrastructure to sustain the high availability of their clinical applications . “ The systems were going down and having high-availability issues ,” says Kevin Torres , CTO and CISO at MemorialCare . This problem stemmed from an out-of-date infrastructure . “ We went a little too long driving on bald tires , so to speak ,” says Torres . “[ Sirius ] actually dug in , rolled up their sleeves , got dirty and helped [ us ] get out of that jam .” That made an impression on Torres and established the foundation of trust their relationship would be built on .
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