474 - Winter Summit 2024 Session 5: Managing the Clinical Networks of Tomorrow's Hospitals

In this episode of Talking HealthTech, host Peter Birch speaks with Alex Swan, Senior Systems Engineer, and Julanne Saltiel, Head of Services, ANZ, both from Extreme Networks, about the critical role of networks in healthcare. They discuss automation’s importance, network maintenance, security, and adapting to technological changes for enhanced network management. This episode was recorded during the Talking HealthTech Winter Summit 2024.Key Takeaways🤖 Automation's Importance: Automation reduces human error in complex network configurations, especially in a security context.🔒 Network Maintenance and Security: Continuous network upgrades and applying global bug fixes and security patches are essential for preventing security risks.🔄 Adapting to Technological Changes: Constantly evolving platforms to meet changing client requirements and monitoring application performance are critical for effective network management.🧠 Future Technological Innovations: Emerging AI tools are becoming increasingly important in network management, transforming tasks rather than replacing jobs.🌐 Holistic Network Design and Continuous Monitoring: Designing adaptable network platforms that evolve and continuous application performance monitoring are essential, especially in healthcare.⚙️ Security Measures and Risk Mitigation: Risk can be mitigated through encapsulating services, automation, and limiting IoT devices' functionality to essential services.Check out the episode and full show notes on the Talking HealthTech website.Keep an eye out for the details of our Spring Summit happening in November of this year. For more information, go to talkinghealthtech.com/summit.Loving the show? Leave us a review, and share it with someone who might get some value from it.Keen to take your HealthTech to the next level? Become a THT+ Member for access to our online community forum, meet-ups, special offers, and more exclusive content. For more information, visit talkinghealthtech.com/thtplus Mentioned in this episode:Sign Up to the Free Talking Healthtech NewsletterSign up to the free Talking HealthTech newsletter for weekly digital health news, events, jobs, partner updates and Pete’s take on what matters across the sector: talkinghealthtech.com/newsletter