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During the next five years, the healthcare IT sector is likely to experience significant change, as current technological trends fall by the wayside and new solutions emerge. According to a recent HealthcareITNews report, the sector will likely look quite different in five years, and technological changes will play a major role in that transition.

For example, the report said, electronic health record systems will likely progress substantially during the next few years. This will mean that more organizations will reach level 3 of the government's meaningful use standards so that, five years from now, the rush to adapt to the regulation will be long past. By then, all of the organizations using EHRs will have made the adjustments to meaningful use, collected their incentives and moved on to implementing a new technology.

If businesses are going to live up to the news source's lofty expectations, changes at the infrastructure level are going to be key. Cloud computing, virtualization and other innovative technologies are likely to be necessary for successful EHR deployment at high levels of meaningful use. This could make datacenter automation essential to managing the application servers that support EHR solutions.