For the 61st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Josh Otten, Director of IT Solutions Engineering and Design and Architecture at Adventist Healthcare to dive into the world of IT infrastructure! We kick off this episode by talking about the biggest IT infrastructure challenges Otten has faced recently. Otten shares how he was able to approach these challenges and the benefits he has received in doing so. Next, we take a look at Adventist’s PACs and see if they ever considered moving to the public cloud. Then, we discuss how improving the backend storage has affected their end users. We then look forward to see what technologies and challenges Otten thinks will be important to his organization and is keeping an eye on. Finally, we wrap everything up with Otten passing on the best piece of career advice he’s ever received.

Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss in this episode:

• What are some of the biggest IT infrastructure challenges your organization has faced recently?
  
• How did you approach addressing these IT infrastructure challenges?
  
• What are some of the benefits that you’ve gotten from this change?
  
• For your PACs. were there any thoughts of moving to the public cloud or did you not consider that because of size?
  
• What have been some of the downstream impacts to the end users thanks to the improvement of the backend storage?
  
• What other technologies or challenges are you keeping an eye on that you think will be important to your organization?
  
• What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve ever been given?
  

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