Can SaaS Software and Healthcare Ever Work Together?
October 25, 2013
Grazed from SpendMatters. Author: Thomas Case.
Considering the current mess with the Healthcare.gov website and related aspects of putting wheels on the Obamacare bandwagon, I thought I’d bring in my perspective from complex procurement solution implementations. Since this involves the government, I’ll (somewhat ironically) have to label this a conservative (aka old school) software rollout.
In the procurement software provider space, some of the most old-school prospects are the ones in aerospace and defense, financial services, and – drumroll – healthcare. When I say old-school I mean that they often use on-premise software, running on their own hardware – sometimes even inside their own data center, managed by their own people – or in hardened subsections of Level 4 (exceedingly robust) class data centers…
Stated reasons for choosing this labor-intensive and expensive path are typically that their operations are highly regulated and/or involve content that is seen as too sensitive (personal financial data, health records, intellectual property, etc.)— or even contractually restricted by their clients from placing data on shared hardware in shared environments…
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