Healthcare coming to The Cloud
The cloud is destined to play a much larger role in healthcare than it has so far. That will be especially true as more providers adopt e-health records and other digitized clinical systems.
It will also be pushed along by storage-hungry systems like 3-D medical imaging and health information exchanges looking to provide more efficient ways to share data.
Healthcare has been slower to embrace cloud models than other industries. The reasons for this range from security concerns to a heavy reliance on paper that has kept many hospitals and medical practices from moving quickly to electronic systems.
But that’s changing, as healthcare providers are starting to see the advantages of cloud computing. Those advantages include cost savings, as well as more nimble and faster ways of streamlining servers, adding storage capacity and rolling out new applications without having to have resource-stretched IT groups get involved.
With these benefits in mind, the demand for flexible cloud computing models in healthcare will grow.
“A transformation is underway in healthcare,” said Roberta Katz, director of EMC’s healthcare and life sciences business, and cloud computing will increasingly play a role in it. The technology exists, including products to secure sensitive data, consolidate and virtualize that data, and offer cloud-based applications as well as storage and IT as a service, she said.
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