When you think of cloud computing in the healthcare vertical, you also have to think of security and governance.  Indeed, the need to control and secure healthcare data in the cloud is a big issue, and thus cloud governance is critical.

On the whole, cloud computing needs governance to succeed.  If you think about it, at the end state of the cloud computing implementation, we’ll have thousands of services and data elements under management.  To control how they are accessed, added, deleted, and altered, we need a solid approach, processes, procedures, and technology.  That is why we call it ‘governance,’ or, more specifically, ‘service governance.’

Service governance is important in the world of healthcare in the cloud for a few key reasons:  

Laws and regulations within the healthcare vertical make it necessary to control access to data, services, and processes in very fined-grained and configurable ways.

• Cloud services that …