Cloud Computing

UCLA Deploys Cloud Computing for Medical Research, Precision Medicine

by Fred Donovan

UCLA Health is deploying cloud computing to better harness healthcare data for medical research and enable precision medicine. The academic medical center is using Microsoft Azure cloud services to...

Health Insurance Industry Struggles to Update Legacy IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Health insurance legacy IT infrastructure was designed for transactions centered around claims, not for a consumer-engaged environment, observed Beth O’Rorke, chief information officer and...

Healthcare Providers See IT Industry Headed for the Cloud

by Fred Donovan

More than two-thirds (70 percent) of 242 healthcare provider executives surveyed by Reaction Data said that the IT industry is headed for the cloud. Fourteen percent said that cloud computing was an...

Google Selects 6 Health AI Projects for Its Impact Challenge

by Fred Donovan

Google has selected 20 winners for its AI Impact Challenge, including six health AI projects. Winners receive funding from a $25 million pool as well as coaching from Google AI experts and consulting...

Healthcare IT Pros Warm to Putting Sensitive Data in the Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Despite a previous reluctance to put sensitive data in the cloud, healthcare IT pros now see cloud computing as a way to improve their data security and compliance posture. That is one conclusion of a...

Organizations Are More Comfortable Putting PHI in Healthcare Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations are becoming more comfortable putting sensitive PHI in the cloud, observed Mike Jude, digital health research manager at Frost & Sullivan. “For many cloud service...

Google Cloud-Based Healthcare API Is Now in Beta Version

by Fred Donovan

Google’s cloud-based healthcare API, designed to improve health data interoperability, is now in beta. Google said its cloud-based healthcare API offers a managed solution for storing and...

Pros, Cons, and Strategies for Implementing Healthcare Multicloud

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare multicloud is becoming an attractive way for organizations to deal with the explosion of digital health data in electronic health records, connected devices, Internet of Things, and healthcare apps. As more healthcare...

UPMC’s Cloud-Based OS Boosts Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing in a cloud-based healthcare operating system (hcOS) to improve healthcare interoperability and break down data silos.   The...

More Healthcare Organizations To Adopt Hybrid Cloud Computing

by Fred Donovan

The healthcare industry is increasingly adopting hybrid cloud models, according to a survey of more than 2,300 IT decision makers by VansonBourne on behalf of cloud provider Nutanix. Hybrid cloud...

3M’s M*Modal Acquisition Set to Capitalize on Healthcare Cloud Growth

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare cloud computing is expected to continue its strong growth in 2019, as organization move more sensitive data to the cloud. To capitalize on this growth, 3M recently announced plans to...

Consumers, AI Will Challenge Health IT Infrastructure Leaders in 2019

by Fred Donovan

As part of the healthcare industry’s ongoing transformation, health IT infrastructure is undergoing rapid change. Seamless, future-proof health IT infrastructure development will become increasingly important as the use of...

Healthcare Claims Management Market To Post CAGR of 5.3% to 2023

by Fred Donovan

The global healthcare claims management market is forecast by Markets and Markets to increase at a CAGR of 5.3 percent, reaching $14 billion by 2023.   Factors fueling this market growth include...

Major Tech Firms Partner to Boost Healthcare IT Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Major tech companies, like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, are increasingly partnering with health IT vendors to remove barriers to healthcare IT interoperability. In a letter released recently by ITI,...

Healthcare Cloud Computing Market to See 22% CAGR Through 2022

by Fred Donovan

The global healthcare cloud computing market is forecast by Technavio to increase at a CAGR of 22 percent, growing by $16.4 billion from 2017 to 2022. Technavio said that growth in cloud-assisted...

Citus Data Announces HIPAA-Compliant Healthcare Cloud

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Citus Data announced that Citus Cloud can now be used to manage PHI and build HIPAA-compliant applications for the healthcare cloud. The scale-out Postgres database company now allows...

Managed Cloud Services Support Public HIT Cloud Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are relying more on public cloud services are challenged with managing aspects of their cloud-based infrastructure as more tools are added to the...

Building a Healthcare Cloud Strategy Prevents Overspending

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Many organizations are moving to the healthcare cloud to reduce the cost of on-premises IT infrastructure deployment. While initially deploying a new cloud infrastructure may be expensive, over time...

Cloud-Based Identity and Access Management Increases Flexibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are leaning towards healthcare identity and access management (IAM) solutions as they continue to add cloud-based services and mobile devices to their IT infrastructure. Research and...

Advancements in HIT Infrastructure Tools Spawn Digital Transformation

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Allina Health announced Oct. 18 it has joined AVIA, a network of healthcare organizations committed to transforming patient care through digital transformation, to help improve their HIT...