THE IT&S 2015 ANNUAL REPORT

Emerging Technologies
Developer Technologies
Healthcare has held onto development languages, techniques,
and tooling that has been around since the late nineties, even
earlier. There is a growing recognition, however, that with the
introduction of varying access needs (whether phone or tablet,
PC or Mac) systems need to become more modernized in their
underlying architecture. The newer tools and technologies
provide increased agility, resiliency, and potentially time to
market in delivering solutions that leverage commodity-based
techniques. We will therefore apply specific focus to Node.js and
its like, Functional Programming, NoSQL, and several other newer
technologies.
Augmented Reality
Augmented reality describes any technology that overlays digital
interfaces onto the physical world. Unlike virtual reality, which
immerses you in a simulation using stereoscopic 3D on a screen,
augmented reality technologies embed opaque holograms
directly into the environment. Spurred by developments in
mobile computing and graphics processing, both augmented
and virtual-reality technologies have finally become wearable,
portable, and affordable enough for popular use, and solutions
such as Microsoft Hololens and Magic Leap present opportunities
that could be used in a healthcare environment for many
purposes.
Internet of
Everything (IoE)
The Internet of Everything
represents both a thought
process and a technology,
providing foundational
support through aggregation
of data and analytical
processing in large-scale
environments. Ultimately, it
enables the capture, analysis,
response, and action cycle
to further improve overall
environmental, personal, and
organizational processes and
functions. IT&S is positioned
well to gather, monitor,
and respond to IoE as an
overarching technological
approach, while further
ensuring the appropriate
security models are engaged
early.
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