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Healthcare Sector Turns to Database DevOps to Better Serve Patients RemotelyResults from Redgate's latest 2020 State of Database DevOps Report for the Healthcare sector indicate rising demand and adoption of DevOps and database DevOps to address the numerous challenges that the sector is facing this year, partly stemming from the coronavirus. As IT teams across the country struggle with smaller budgets and staffing shortages, every industry has seen a rising demand for standardized process and automation to quickly address pressing needs. In the healthcare sector, the pandemic has forced IT to work under pressure to quickly develop and deliver effective telehealth services, while also facilitating access to electronic health records and other sensitive patient data to ensure these all run smoothly. This increased strain has increased the need for DevOps and database DevOps processes, with 41% of respondents in the healthcare sector saying they have adopted DevOps across some projects to free up developer time and increase the speed of delivery. "We know that the healthcare sector is facing unprecedented demands from the pandemic and other regulatory struggles, and DevOps is the best way to tackle these issues," said Kendra Little, Redgate DevOps Advocate. "By then extending those practices into the database, the healthcare sector can not only improve the quality and efficiency of these systems, but ensure patient data remains secure and maintain compliance practices." Key findings for the healthcare sector include:
Over the last four years, Redgate's annual report has provided valuable insights into how and why DevOps is being adopted, along with the drivers for introducing it for both application and database development, and the obstacles businesses and organizations in every sector face. With responses from developers, database specialists and IT leadership around the globe across all industry verticals, from small companies to big enterprises, Redgate's report also highlights the varying challenges sector by sector. Download the 2020 State of Database DevOps in Healthcare to see the full picture of how and why DevOps is being adopted across a rapidly changing sector. About Redgate Software Redgate makes ingeniously simple software used by over 800,000 IT professionals around the world and is the leading Microsoft (News - Alert) SQL Server tools vendor. Redgate's philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools which elegantly solve the problems developers and DBAs face every day and help them to adopt compliant database DevOps. As well as streamlining database development and preventing the database being a bottleneck, this helps organizations introduce data protection by design and by default. As a result, more than 100,000 companies use Redgate tools, including 91% of those in the Fortune 100. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005205/en/ |