Your Guide to Cloud Computing for the Healthcare Datacenter
The late adoption of cloud computing technologies within the healthcare industry can be attributed to concerns revolving around cost, usability, and security. However, proper implementation and execution of “the cloud” can provide considerable cost efficiencies and increase overall ease of use without compromising network, server or security risks. With the right infrastructure architecture, cloud-computing (also called “utility computing” or Infrastructure as a Service [IaaS]) technologies provide flexibility, scalability, redundancy and choice to healthcare IT departments looking to expand local networking abilities.