Healthcare Strategies for Modernizing IT Infrastructure

The global healthcare industry faces ongoing challenges, ranging from workforce shortages to cybersecurity threats. To respond to those issues, healthcare leaders are investing in innovative digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to drive efficiencies, increase productivity and support patient engagement.¹ Yet, doing so requires that hospitals and health systems have a network that can support those data-hungry solutions, according to Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer at Juniper Networks. Friday is recognized as one of the “godfathers” of Wi-Fi and is the co-founder of Mist, the company that built Mist, Juniper’s AI-native networking platform. 

“Everything is moving to some sort of cloud application these days,” Friday explained. “Whether it’s supporting AI note-taking for doctors or keeping track of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, you need to be able to monitor what’s happening. That is what will allow everyone to maintain a secure connection as they use important applications. It will also ensure data is moving where it needs to go to support those applications.”