Doctor’s orders: Healthcare in the cloud
October 11, 2012
Klickstein is certainly open to the idea of using the cloud, but so far CHA’s IT investments, though working with management firm Egenera, have been around optimizing the IT infrastructure behind the company’s firewall. The hospital has decreased the number of servers CHA uses through virtualization, and has automated as many processes as possible, including daily backups…
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Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she’s excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization.
Outsourcing management of the hardware can free her IT staff to focus on more strategic projects instead of just "keeping the lights on," while having a common place to store information that is accessed by CHA and other healthcare organizations could make hospital operations much faster and simpler. But as a health organization, CHA is in one of the most heavily regulated industries in America. She can’t just throw all her IT resources up into the public cloud without some considerable due diligence and assurances that it will work, and be protected. So is the cloud ready for organizations like Klickstein’s?…