CSC Chairman, President and CEO Mike Laphen was a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2010, and cloud computing was a major focus of his comments.
The 60-minute technology talk — featuring plenty of cloud discussion — is now available for streaming online.
Can cloud computing make the world a better place?
Technology — both infrastructure and applications — should be aligning and stretching itself to not only support the rate of change in healthcare, but also to influence the same.
On the infrastructure side, growth in WAN and LAN technologies (fiber-optic and copper for 10GbE/40GbE, and beyond) coupled with their wireless counterparts (4G thru WiMAX and LTE) would create the required pervasive healthcare enterprise that can aspire to be always at service.
Broadband connectivity to the desktop/handheld at the point of care is perhaps the most justified of the use cases for wireless broadband amongst all applicable industrial situations.
Such an infrastructure would also enable transformations like outpatient and interdisciplinary care by reducing the inherent logistical conflicts involved. Read more
