The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims to reduce costs while improving quality of care.  Of course, those in Healthcare IT have been trying to reduce costs and improve care for years.  Perhaps there are some real opportunities to improve IT delivery around the ACA, and those opportunities may exist more in cloud than traditional approaches.

Delivering high-quality clinical care is impossible without the support of strategic, integrated, and agile IT systems. Today, aligning clinical care with technology requires IT systems and staff to improve an organization’s ability to adhere to the requirements of the ACA.  This means being more innovative when looking for solutions that will provide the ability to quickly comply to the letter and spirit of the law, as well as provide better delivery of care in support of patients and providers.

Why cloud?  The use of resources that is easy to provision, as required, seems to …