Cloud is fast emerging as the torchbearer of healthcare industry: Garrett Ilg, President, Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle

Healthcare providers today need access to critical information, consolidated from disparate data sources, in order to identify key areas and plan better for various contingencies that are likely to emerge. Garrett Ilg, president Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle, talks about the role of cloud and innovation in an interview with Sudhir Chowdhary. Excerpts:

With the pandemic, we have seen unprecedented focus on healthcare. Do you see this as a sustained shift and how?
The healthcare transformation was under way even earlier, but the Covid-19 crisis has accelerated this transformation. In the past, efforts to transform were bogged down by factors such as criticality of systems involved and constricted budgets. This has changed over the last 12 months. For instance, the pandemic has changed the way trials are done. Trials today are decentralised so they are completed faster, since work can be conducted in parallel.