Healthcare is facing unprecedented challenges in delivering care right now. IT support is key as hospitals and care providers grapple with evolving threats and difficulties in sourcing necessary equipment. Tom Stafford, chief technology officer for CDW Healthcare and former CIO of Halifax Health, recently hosted a panel discussion detailing what healthcare CIOs and directors are doing to prepare for business disruptions as a result of the current health crisis. This discussion featured current and former health system CIOs and directors, along with practice leads from CDW Healthcare.

Look at nearly any new offering from the largest names in technology — Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others — and you’re likely to find an accompanying environmental and sustainability initiative.

There’s been a growing awareness in recent years about the impact of energy use by corporate data centers, both on the environment and on organizations’ bottom lines. Public cloud hyperscalers have recognized this concern and have responded by optimizing their environments to help organizations meet their spending and sustainability goals.

As you make decisions about where to place your IT workloads, keep the following considerations in mind.

If your organization has made the strategic decision to enable Microsoft Teams, it is your job to accomplish this task while limiting the impact to end users, and also creating a path that will provide the best adoption and user experience possible.

The following are eight important things for you to consider as you start building your project plan for the move to the Microsoft Teams platform.

Last fall, I was preparing for major abdominal surgery that would keep me in the hospital for a week, with an additional seven weeks of recovery at home. I knew from previous experience that pain management would be a challenge, and I knew through my work at CDW that there’s growing interest in using virtual reality (VR) to help patients manage their pain.

I decided to serve as a guinea pig, bringing an Oculus Go headset with me to the hospital to see whether it would actually help with my recovery. Here’s what I learned:

Maintaining business continuity is mission critical for organizations right now. Being able to securely and effectively collaborate with end users is often the cornerstone of meeting your business and operations objectives. CDW has helped many customers optimize a successful work-from-home strategy, and we’re well-positioned to assist with and meet your organization’s unique needs.

Watch the video for insights from CDW experts who provide answers around enabling a remote workforce.

Modern business is a complex web of interwoven relationships. As I work with organizations across a variety of industries, I’m amazed at the networks of suppliers, consultants and partners that companies bring together to create competitive products and services. While these partnerships deliver tremendous value, they also bring new risks. In fact, the Ponemon Institute recently estimated that data breaches are roughly 9 percent more expensive when third parties are involved. The bottom line is that you can outsource various business functions, but you can’t outsource risk.

Let’s take a look at three things organizations can do to better manage the hundreds of vendors that compromise their supply chains. This is the core of building a robust vendor performance and risk management program.