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As more and more traditionally slower-moving industries start to move their resources to the cloud, an interesting note from Evolve IP: healthcare IT professionals believe their data is safer in the cloud than on-premises when faced with a hardware issue or environmental disaster.<\/p>\n
The report, which surveyed 180 healthcare professionals, found that for environmental disasters, 61% of respondents felt their information was safest in a private cloud, compared to 27.5% for a private cloud and 11.5% on premise, while for malicious attacks and hardware malfunctions 58.5% each also preferred a private cloud. Interestingly, for attacks on premise (32%) was significantly the second most popular option.<\/p>\n
Healthcare organisations have on average between two and three services in the cloud with data backup, servers and data centres being the most widely deployed services. 85% of all organisations polled said they had at least one service in the cloud, while more than four in five respondents (81%) say they plan on adding new or additional cloud services in the next three years.<\/p>\n
The research also found that rollouts had not been a universal success, however. Almost two in five said they had deployed a cloud solution on their own as opposed to using a third party provider – lower than the figure for all industries – with a third (32.5%) admitting they would outsource to a solution provider given the chance next time.<\/p>\n
One of the key elements for healthcare organisations moving to the cloud is HIPAA accreditation; 85% of respondents said they were aligned with HIPAA requirements, with a further 32% also citing PCI (payment card industry) compliance.<\/p>\n
Writing for this publication last year<\/a>, Karin Ratchinsky, director of vertical marketing strategy at Level 3 Communications – since acquired<\/a> by CenturyLink – argued that while using cloud-based technologies for back end functions was steadily rising, the use cases elsewhere were similarly important. “Healthcare leaders want to funnel capital into cash flow-generating activities that allow them to deliver improved outcomes,” Ratchinsky wrote.<\/p>\n “Cloud computing lets healthcare organisations focus on healthcare rather than data centres, digital real estate to house them, and skilled professionals to maintain and operate them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As more and more traditionally slower-moving industries start to move their resources to the cloud, an interesting note from Evolve IP: healthcare IT professionals believe their data is safer in the cloud than on-premises when faced with a hardware iss…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28607,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions\/28607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}