Monday, August 13, 2012 6 cloud considerations for health orgs
From Karen Conway at Govenment Health IT.
A cloudy future
Cloud perceptions and comfort levels are changing. A third of healthcare organizations are already using cloud applications, according to recent studies, while nearly three-quarters of those who responded “no” reported that they plan to use the cloud in the next three to five years. Those numbers are relatively in line with other industries, and may be lower than actual. For example, many financial and supply chain operations at hospitals and healthcare systems are already using cloud-based applications for paycheck processing and supply chain e-commerce.
As time passes, more security-conscious industries like finance are beginning to perform mission-critical functions in the cloud. As their use grows, healthcare is expected to follow suit. The migration will understandably evolve, first with private clouds used only by authorized personnel within specific organizations, but will gradually evolve to more public clouds with applications that can be shared by authorized users from different organizations.
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