Cloud front breezes along briskly

Grazed from HealthCare IT News. Author: John Andrews.

With its ease of installment, functional versatility, cost effectiveness and seemingly limitless capacity, cloud computing is taking the healthcare IT landscape by storm. There are many different deployments happening at facilities across the industry as providers search for ways to improve their computing power, inject vitality into established systems and utilize the cloud’s potential for clinical, financial and administrative purposes.

"Cloud computing is definitely a high growth area," says Paul Burke, director of revenue cycle technology for Chadds Ford, Pa.-based IMA Consulting. "It serves as both a conduit and repository for data. For hospitals that are still using 25-year-old technology, hooking up to the cloud provides a wealth of new functionality and enables them to squeeze more mileage out of those systems."…

Migration to the cloud over the past decade initially started slowly, with hospitals typically adopting claims processing applications, Burke said. As PCs became more affordable and Internet access more prevalent, he said, these applications took off…

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