June 24, 2020: Welcome to this episode of the Field Report! Today’s guest is Tahir Ali, from Froedtert Health. Tahir serves as Froedtert Health’s chief technology officer of information technology, providing the leadership and vision to grow the Froedtert & MCW network further through technology acquisitions, leveraging existing technology investments and the use of technological resources. His primary areas of responsibility include the effective management of the daily operations of all technology, including the data center, telecommunications, technical services, desktop engineering, network operations, vendor management and field support. In this episode, we discuss EHR, AI and automation, and disaster recovery, and Tahir explains how Froedtert uses scalability to avoid unreliable networks through unintelligent design. We also talk about on-prem versus cloud, and Tahir gives us his argument for avoiding lock-in, and he also shares with us what he believes will be the most important projects in healthcare coming out of COVID-19. For more on the benefits of AI for both automation and security, make sure not to miss this episode of the Field Report!
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