Brian Eastwood
Senior Editor
Brian Eastwood is a senior editor for CIO.com with more than 10 years of experience writing, editing and producing content for newspapers and the Web. He is primarily responsible for working with CIO.com's contributors and columnists, who cover topics such as cloud computing, big data, development and architecture, personal tech, the IT channel, business applications, BYOD, consumerization and business / project management. Brian's specific area of interest and expertise is healthcare IT. Prior to CIO.com, Brian was an editor at TechTarget and a newspaper reporter in the Boston suburbs. Outside the office, Brian is a history buff with a particular interest in postwar Europe and a runner who recently finished his 11th marathon.
Why health care needs Amazon (or anyone) to shake things up
As health care in the United States embarks on what PwC describes as its most radical shift in 80 years, most health IT incumbents just aren't cutting it
Forrester outlines IT imperatives for health care providers
Health care providers face an unsettling reality: Embrace the cloud, big data, and mobile or be acquired by an organization that's successfully done that
Why RMS built its cloud environment in Iceland
Iceland has long been touted as an ideal spot for a data center, but companies have been slow to take advantages of its climate, renewable energy, and government incentives
Health records exchange: Many standards, many doubts
Interoperability seems to be everyone's goal, resulting in competing approaches that may not achieve true data sharing
6 innovations that will change health care
Breakthroughs from the MIT's Future of Health and Wellness Conference could change the way patients interact with hospitals, physicians, and each other