Solution Showcase: Innovating Data Centers to Data-Driven Care with Brian Jones and Jason Jones

10/12/2025 34 min Temporada 5 Episodio 130
Solution Showcase: Innovating Data Centers to Data-Driven Care with Brian Jones and Jason Jones

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December 10, 2025: Valley Medical Center's CIO and SVP, Brian Jones, faced a critical challenge: transform aging infrastructure while enabling his team to focus on data-driven healthcare delivery. In this candid conversation with Drex DeFord and Rackspace's Global Senior Client Executive, Jason Jones, Brian reveals how he disrupted the status quo through a bold partnership that reduced costs by 30%, eliminated unplanned downtime, and freed his team to innovate. Discover how Valley Medical achieved a complete infrastructure transformation in under 12 months, secured a decade of predictable costs, and empowered staff who initially resisted change to become champions of the new model. This is infrastructure reimagined for modern healthcare.Key Points:05:55 Reimagining Healthcare IT10:06 Leadership and Empowerment16:48 Measuring Success19:03 Building a Business Case28:19 Advice for Innovation and Transformation31:43 Final Thoughts and Human ElementX: This Week HealthLinkedIn: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

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