Healthcare Embraces Cloud Computing
January 3, 2015
Grazed from HCPLive. Author: Jared Kaltwasser.
Cloud computing is fast becoming an indispensable tool for mid-sized healthcare organizations, even though only two-thirds of those organizations say they’re “very confident” the data is safe. The findings come in a survey by Dell Inc., which polled 2,038 information technology decision-makers at public and private mid-sized healthcare firms.
About 43% said they’re using private cloud storage solutions, and another 43% said they use a hybrid cloud solution. Of those using the cloud, nearly half, 46%, said their biggest incentive to use the cloud is that it enables them to better allocate their IT resources. Thirty-nine percent said the biggest benefit is cost savings…
Cliff Bleustein, MD, the chief medical officer of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, said cloud services can act as a gateway for medical practices.
“The future of healthcare lies in intelligent data repositories that incorporate clinical workflow functions and predictive and prescriptive analysis,” he said, in a press release. “Moving to cloud-based archiving as a service is the first step in making your data actionable.” …