At Cisco Live, a spotlight on healthcare
by Kevin Delaney
In fast pandemic response, CIOs see a better future for healthcare
CIOs and IT teams are among the critical front-line workers who have kept the world running through the COVID-19 pandemic. So at Cisco Live last week, the company was honored to highlight the efforts of top healthcare CIOs. All spoke of challenging times in the early days of the virus, but saw a positive future for healthcare.
“Healthcare is going to change forever,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins predicted at the virtual event, the company’s premier education and training event for IT professionals. And he was quick to share Cisco’s efforts to make those positive changes happen.
“It’s been a phenomenal show of support from all the communities of the world,” Robbins said of efforts to combat the pandemic. “Cisco now has contributed roughly $500 million dollars to this response. And as the world runs on our stuff … we are more committed than ever to getting through the current challenges.”
As part of that commitment, the company announced new capabilities for business resiliency. These include continued support for healthcare, such as infrastructure kits for emergency field hospitals.
Todd Nightingale, Cisco’s SVP and general manager for enterprise networking and cloud, stressed that such solutions will better support the kind of herculean efforts we have seen from healthcare and IT workers in recent months.
