What are our CIO's busy doing? What are the challenges they face today? How do they get maximum ROI for their organization?
These are the questions which pose CIOs today.
"I want to know what kind of vertical solutions are going on at present, especially technology and solutions in general" -
Prasad Ravi, Dy General Manager- Information technology, Hospira
"IT in ESAB India has a very strong base and currently we are working on ERP across five locations. What kind of strategies are there in place today?" -
Veeraragavan, CIO, ESAB India
"IT system in health care, in India is at least 20 years behind. What I use to do back in 1993 in U.S. is pursued in India in 21st century; we are way behind on it. Heath care IT do not get what is deserve, It needs more coverage and only publication like Siliconindia can do it. Most hospitals are bringing IT systems without any understanding and we need to change that, since they turn around and blame the CIO or the IT managers for the failure. More involvement from CIO of health care industry will help in structuring the IT in Health care and where the problems lie." -
Inderjith Davalur, CIO, Global Hospitals
"We run completely on IT, nobody has scale the IT too much in Health care. The diagnostic do not use IT to that level, but we want BPO level IT in health care." -
S. Harish, CIO, Medall
"We are in a service company and in the business for more than 2 decades and specially in servicing industry advancement technology should is utilized to its best so that customer satisfaction can be enhanced and also the point of sale can be boast up by reducing the servicing time. What strategy we have to give best possible service which will also help us decision making?" -
Suresh Krishna, India Cements Capital, President and CEO
"Cloud is good for small SME's to reduce cost for time being but the whole onus lies on how to spread the awareness. The issue with cloud is to build up the trust factor as your data will be lying in somebody's server. My organization makes use of Google apps alone. There is no heavy use of cloud but we are in the process of implementing. We have our own servers to secure our information through first layer of filters" -
Suresh Krishna, , India Cements Capital, President and CEO
"Cloud and virtualization are fantastic phenomenon that started up and we work in cloud extensively, especially the Google apps are awesome" -
S. Harish, CIO, Medall
"I am very against a private cloud for hospital and I presented this issue before by board last week itself. The reason that I am against is that the security that any provider can offer is still in suspect, all kinds of companies have been hacked, Facebook was hacked, personnel account was hacked, so if you telling me that would I like to put my patients details on cloud it is definitely a no. Why would you want somebody to find out what kind of procedure you went through? Cloud is too early for hospitals, lot of people might call me foolish but still I will say do not put it out there until u can feel if it hacked still there is some level of security. As a CIO I would have failed in my job if someone can get into my patients details. We have our own data center inside our own premises. We also have firewalls and virus protection, even our email servers are secured because there are emails that are shared between doctors and doctors and management and we cannot afford to lose any data. We have multiple layers of security and not have any public IP that is not secured" -
Inderjith Davalur, CIO, Global Hospitals
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