Cloud Computing

The business intelligence stalwart has a suite specific to healthcare of which an executive said the goal is ambient analytics and answers from data. 

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Hosted infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as Amazon enable health entities to pilot new ideas and either scale those that work or turn off projects that do not without having to spend on hardware and other IT. 

Informaticist Nephi Walton says that the cloud can be used to aggregate and harmonize data and argues that in certain ways it is more secure than what hospitals can handle on their own.

The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine takes an app by app approach to its use of cloud computing, employing technology from Salesforce to build custom applications for clinical care and research.  

Beaufort Memorial Hospital has already launched into the cloud with a variety of back-end systems and says it will move its enterprise and clinical systems to the cloud in the next 18 to 24 months.

An executive cautions that the biggest challenge with cloud computing in healthcare is the contract organizations sign with vendors of cloud services.

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Its enterprise content management technology spans the enterprise helping address multiple workflows, from clinical care to revenue cycle management.