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[Music] Hi, I'm Cesar Sernura, president of NetApp and I'm joined today with Anar Rosa Fina, the CIO and chief data officer of the European Institute of Oncology and Arosa, thank you so much for continuing our conversation from NetApp Insight stage here with me. Your experience as CIO and chief data officer at the European Institute of Oncology and the Monsino cardology center is inspiring. Can you share a little bit about the type of data you are working with on a daily basis? First of all, let me thank you for having me here. For me, it's great honor. Well uh talking about data being produced at the hospitals the research and university hospitals we can say that we are literally swimming in a great sea of data and uh it's data from all uh kinds for example uh structured as well as unstructured data coming from uh IoT devices monitoring the patient's vital signs or from uh medical report files or again from uh digital imaging CT or ultrasound scans MRIs operational theater data so we are surrounded by data I can't imagine your dayto-day during the pandemic the EO saw a spike in cyber attacks and more than half of them affect health care providers and more than 40% of them targeting hospitals what are you doing to stay ahead of the criminals you Now 30% of the data being produced worldwide belongs to the healthcare industry and according to a recent report only uh fewer than 30% of the organizations has got cyber security and ransomware protection policy in place and that makes uh you know the data protection argument veryconcerning. Fortunately, NetApp is there to stand by us and helping us with this very important task. Data in the health care space is growing every three years one order of magnitude and that puts a lot of pressure on us from the IT department to manage the numerous uh applications that has to access to let the physicians and the care providers rapidly and securely access the data. Well, thank you so much for that trust. Why does healthcare data need to stay hot you know and how do you manage that incremental amount of data while also keeping it secure? The health care procedures may unfold many decades and so physicians need to get access securely and rapidly to the data being produced at the point of care even 5 10 years ago. And that's very important uh to have to be well equipped with technological solutions that allows us to get consistent data, secure data at the point of care. That means no latency in retrieving data for example. So that's key along with the backup technologies we put in place thanks to uh the netup technology. These bulks of data need to be backed up manytimes a day and in case of failure being retrieved so rapidly as they have been backed up on stage and arosa you mentioned that the 2D x-rays have been replaced by newer technology. Talk to me how you have managed all of those desperate health record formats. Well, that the Daicon protocol that is a industry specific protocol for digital images is leading the way and they let the applications exchange and interoperateacross the different anatomy sections as well as interoperate among different applications within a hospital and then across different hospital organizations. And one of the things that I'm talking to you was more inspired is the philosophy of the founder of the European Institute of Oncology. Can you share more of that with everybody? Yeah, I'm very happy to talk about our founder, Professor Ombberto Veronese, who founded the European Institute of Technology back in 1994 with a revolutionary vision of how to treat cancer and how to treat patients. Among the uh the innovations he brought into this field is the idea is the concept that a patient being affected by cancer must be guaranteed humanity a deep feeling. He must be uh hugged by all the organization physicians and the administrative staff. Everybody is responsible for the well-being of the patients being affected by so a terrific so a terrible uh disease. So one of the innovations he brought in is the new techniques of cancer treatment. For example, in relation to breast cancer, fewer disfiguring procedures and giving patients dignity and these values are still fundamental in the institution. You know, Professor Veronese passed uh almost 10 years ago, but his message, the torch is being brought along. Well, congratulations for that. I want to thank you so much for sitting with me today and Rosa. It's inspiring your story and I look forward to talking to you again in the future. I know we will continue to innovate together. I really thank you for the trust and this is the word that matters, you know, the most and makes me proud of what we do because you're really helping people. Thank you for leading the way for improved patient outcomes and for being a champion of NetApp. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you.
NetApp President César Cernuda and Annarosa Farina, CIO at The European Institute of Technology, addressed cybersecurity in healthcare to ensure patient safety and data integrity. Discover how NetApp secures data and enhances healthcare efficiency.