At the upcoming HIMSS conference, several cloud vendors including the titan Amazon will have a big presence. As the digital world makes a bigger and bigger imprint in healthcare, payers and providers especially will need to see how computing in the cloud makes sense within their organization.
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With the changing IT landscape, many organizations both large and small are finding it more cost-effective and operationally better to store data on the cloud. Anthem recently announced a whopping $500 million contract w/IBM for a hybrid approach where there will be data stored on IBM’s cloud servers but also leave some data operations and storage at Anthem’s data centers.
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With the rapidly changing advances in technology, healthcare is one sector that tends to lag behind. One area that is changing rapidly is the movement away from location-based storage and into the cloud. What does that mean for healthcare and in our HIPAA constraints to data? Here’s an interesting article that addresses some of these.
