Embracing ChromeOS (and the cloud mindset required)

2019 will bring many changes.  After more than 20 years as a Chief Information Officer, I will pivot to lead innovation as part of the senior leadership team for the newly mergedBeth Israel Lahey Health on March 1, 2019.  Here ' s theBoston Business Journal articleabout it.My innovation role will focus on 5 areas:A front door/liaison to government/industry/academia for digital health collaboration at Beth Israel Lahey HealthExploring new technologies, especially those arising from outside healthcare, to assess their role in provider/patient/payer workflowMentoring startups and internal faculty seeking to create new products/services especially in the areas of machine learning, mobile, telecare, internet of things and blockchainLecturing/writing to broadly disseminate lessons learned about innovationHosting of international visiting groups from around the world which want to learn about our innovation efforts.In many ways, this next step combines the best of my youthful experiences researching and writing in the early 1980 ' s Silicon Valley with my 30 years of experience as an IT leader and professor.   I look forward to it.In the early 1980 ' s while writing for Infoworld, I had the opportunity to personally evaluate emerging products - the IBM PC, Compaq ' s portable, Wordstar, Microsoft compilers, and various dial up modem services.  Nearly 40 years after evaluating the first PCs, I ' m now evaluating Chromebooks and ChromeOS as the next ...
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