In the past, enterprise architecture was designed to be silos -Data, Voice, Clinical and many more. Demarcation, Control and Ownership was given special emphasis. IT departments ruled and decided what, when, how systems were procured, installed and operated.

As market transitions happened and new consumption models became available, the line of business started procuring cloud based services to keep up with their demands outside of the IT's enterprise systems. While this accelerated innovation and efficiencies, with applications everywhere, challenges grew alongside.

As health care providers adopt more cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) services, their application environment has become extraordinarily complex. With billions of new cloud, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) connections coming over the next few years, things will get even more complicated. IT is facing high operational costs and inefficiencies as they struggle to simply and manages all of these diverse applications, systems, data, and things, many of which no longer even reside within the enterprise. They look for new ways to capitalize on existing resources and data, augment other services outside of the enterprise and deliver new customer experiences to stay ahead.

To keep up with the needs of our customers to enjoy seamless services from anywhere, the Cisco Integration Platform helps to connects all of your diverse on-premise, cloud, and SaaS applications across the enterprise, and makes it easy to securely exchange data and services between them. And it does it in an automated fashion, reusing application integrations and APIs to radically accelerate the delivery of patient experiences.

Cisco is connecting infrastructure with data, applications, and devices to enrich the collaboration and sharing of data between patients, physicians, and providers. Market leading infrastructure solutions can now be integrated into back office clinical applications, and utilized in new ways. Integration is playing a key role in creating a connected healthcare experience. This is leading to more personalized care, self-service, and extending the value a health system can provide outside the four walls of the physical facility. Please visit the Cisco HIMSS booth (#2002) to see the Cisco Integration Platform and many other solutions in action.

It's my privilege to join Kristen Wilson-Jones, CTO, Sutter Health RD&D and David Chao, Director of Industry Solutions at Mulesoft in a panel discussion at the Mulesoft event at HIMSS 2015 (Time: on April 14th at 5.00pm, RSVP Link: http://himss15reception.splashthat.com). We will talk further about how Internet of Everything will shape up Healthcare delivery and experiences. On behalf of the entire team, I want to invite you to join the conversation.

Look forward to seeing you at HIMSS 2015.