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Fog Computing Improves Healthcare Cloud for IoT Adoption

Fog computing restructures the healthcare cloud to give users better access to necessary data and better control over data storage.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- As healthcare organizations implement more Internet of Things (IoT) technology into their health IT infrastructures, the healthcare cloud needs to be able to reach all aspects of the infrastructure to ensure real-time smart communication.

Fog computing allows organizations to use cloud computing to support IoT, especially in large environments where devices need to be communicating with each other and the data center. This allows devices that are accessing similar information to connect via a sub cloud network, called a fog layer.

Fog computing increases operational efficiency by allowing end users to access smaller, more specific data instead of users accessing information in a centralized, cloud-based infrastructure along with data they will never need to access.