Healthcare “as a Service” providers are coming up strong in the market right now. It’s a growing segment, attracting a lot of interest from businesses and investors, but as expected, cloud security, and more specifically cloud encryption and HIPAA requirements, is critical customers considering a healthcare application as a service. In this article I’ll review some aspects as well as relate to data security solutions such as split-key management.
Our recent conversations with Healthcare SaaS providers have highlighted several common aspects, across many solutions.
Obviously, they all need to be “cloudy” (else they would not be SaaS providers). Their customer will access them through the web and their business model includes a pay-as-you-go component. They need their underlying infrastructure to support this model.