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From day one, Cloudticity has had one mission: to make every human on earth healthier through the work that we do.

With the COVID-19 pandemic upon us, healthcare is in a state of flux. The entire industry is being asked to leverage what we have – or fill the gaps for what we don’t – with an urgency that echoes the growing death toll. Big data is being rapidly mobilized, healthcare systems are being pushed to the max, and antiquated systems that don’t scale are being quickly ripped out and replaced.

When the COVID-19 pandemic descended on the United States with full force, one telemedicine provider saw its video call volume increase by fifteenfold. As a result, an infrastructure that worked well for a fairly stable level of baseline traffic was suddenly plagued by reliability, performance and scalability problems, dropping nearly sixty percent of calls.

90% of all COVID-19 data reported lacks the clinical depth needed to derive meaningful insights about how to respond to COVID-19. Because of this, many state departments of health (DOH) and health information exchanges (HIEs) are struggling to integrate and analyze historical data on COVID-19 patients fast enough to gain relevant insights that can effectively drive critical response activities.

Making sure that your SQL database is running like a well oiled machine can mean the difference between user frustration and improved productivity. For that reason alone it makes sense to optimize performance as much as possible, even if you are now relying on Microsoft to provide the infrastructure on which the database is hosted.

Here are few pieces of advice that SQL administrators can use to turbo-charge their implementation of Azure for this purpose.

The traditional MSP operating model, which relies on fully staffed network operations centers (NOCs) to respond to tickets and remediate incidents, is running out of gas for three main reasons:

Cloudticity Healthcare DataHub™, a next-gen data platform purpose-built to transform healthcare data into actionable insights, puts real-time data in the hands of public health. The solution is currently being used by several states to provide COVID-19 surveillance as well as to inform the response and recovery.

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, the need for innovative healthcare technology solutions is greater than ever.  We see healthcare organizations every day who are rising to the occasion by creating new solutions, modifying existing applications, and then scaling them to meet the needs of the new market. 

Never before in history has the entire healthcare industry been solely focused on the same thing, until now. 

A 2017 study by Trust for America’s Health declared Public Health funding a national crisis. It highlighted the need for Public Health entities to “address gaps in critical infrastructure and update outdated systems and technologies.”

With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting life, more people than ever are suddenly working from home. For employers, especially in healthcare, there’s pressure to enable this transition without compromising compliance or efficiency. 

Thankfully, Amazon has stepped up to offer free subscriptions to Amazon WorkSpaces for organizations with up to 50 users from April 1 through June 30, 2020.