HIMSS 2018: Mercy Takes a Mission-Driven Approach to Being a Cloud Services Provider

Mercy Technology Services has launched a cloud services offering for healthcare organizations that might not otherwise be able to afford the technology. We talk with Mercy and VMware experts about the move from an enterprise IT organization to a service provider.

Scott Richert

VP, Enterprise Infrastructure Services

Mercy

Michael Robinson

VP, North America Healthcare

VMware

• Building on an extensive VMware virtualized and cloud infrastructure, Mercy Technology Services has begun offering cloud services to other healthcare providers.
• Mercy views its new cloud program as a natural extension of its mission-driven culture.
• Moving from an enterprise IT department to a provider of services to customer organizations did create some interesting challenges, says Scott Richert.

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