From the January 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
It’s easy to ensure reliability, availability and data control
State-of-the-art, cloud-based providers can provide 99.9 percent reliability and availability to their systems. That is much better than most hospitals can provide with their on-premises systems. Additionally, significant bandwidth is not only very cheap, but it’s also available with redundant connections, so you do not need to worry about the Internet going out. Lastly, the data is yours. You can not only ensure that you have a contractual right to get it back, but companies like AWS have services that specifically address these concerns and will return your data if something happens to your cloud provider.
Embracing the future of the cloud
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With all that said, the real value of the cloud is access to a network. A cloud system can analyze data from all customers on its network, create benchmarks and give hospitals valuable insights into how they are performing compared to their peers across a variety of clinical and operational metrics. Beyond data, for virtual fields of medicine like radiology, the cloud offers access to a network of radiologists. For most community hospitals, this means that local radiologists can consult with subspecialty radiologists at leading academic institutions. And for larger providers, the network offers the ability to provide expertise to facilities that cannot access it locally. The clinical delivery model of the future will increasingly rely on access to virtual care, and cloud-based PACS services can offer access to that future for radiology.
About the author:Scott Seidelmann is the CEO of Candescent Health.Back to HCB News
