Cloud-based healthcare services: The final topic at #bvdva23 “If you’re looking for your health, it’s in the #cloud”. No one can avoid the corresponding infrastructures. However, it needs…?

A real benefit – example #telematics infrastructure. An “old” infrastructure (connector) meets new technology (cloud). #eRezept #ePA Good image by Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe: Understand cloud as a process and align it with the benefit. A jack also has only a certain use case….

BVDA Post on the cloud Panel

A few notes from Eva Maria’s Session:

Are Cloud-based healthcare services the solution to our healthcare challenges?

Well, there are no “silver bullets” – so no. But #Cloud can help and unlock completely new possibilities through #artificialintelligence/ machine learning as well as making data sharing easier by providing access independent of location.

Last week, at the Bundesverband Deutscher Versandapotheken BVDVA congress, I argued that (1) we should think of Cloud as an enabler and (2) need to remember that Cloud is not a place but an IT operating model.

Interestingly (as we found in a recent VMwareFlying Health study), 94% of actors in the healthcare system agreed that Cloud is an important enabler for intersectoral collaboration in their industry, but only 32% actually have a Cloud strategy. Read more about my PoV and what the data shows, in my latest blog!

So for those still on the fence, it is getting time to prepare to take advantage of not just the possibilities AI/ML will present but also much more basic (some would say boring) process streamlining – or risk being left behind.

Eva-Maria’s LinkedIn Post on the topic can be found here.

More pictures can be found here.


Dr. Eva Maria Hempe is a Technology and healthcare executive with a PhD in Organizational Design for the English National Health Service (NHS). She has more than 10 years of experience in the healthcare/ life science sector at the National Health Service (NHS) in England, the World Economic Forum, and as an Associate Partner at Bain & Company in the Healthcare/ Life Science Practice.

Eva says:”I have a deep interest in technology: I got my first hand me-down computer at 6 years old & bought my first real one with babysitting money at age 10.”

With a Master’s in physics, she led an in-house digital innovation and product team at Bain & Company and is now a Regional Senior Sales Director at the cloud specialist VMware.

    Jens Koegler

    Jens Koegler is VMware's Healthcare Industry Director in EMEA. He is helping our healthcare customers develop and run modern applications to drive innovation and ensure better patient care through a digital foundation that includes data center, hybrid cloud, mobile, networking and security technologies. VMware plays a strategic role in the healthcare industry. Its leading innovations in enterprise software help ensure consistent patient care and reduce IT access time for healthcare professionals so they can spend more time with their patients. Jens plays a key role in helping customers understand how new applications, devices, the latest IT technologies and digital transformation are driving innovation in healthcare.