Most hospital CIOs agree: It’s only a matter of time before hospitals transfer all their data to the cloud and eliminate data centers entirely.
The need to pare down storage costs and improve access to health data across multiple providers is fueling the transition, according to Health IT News. A recent survey by IDC Health Insights indicated that both providers and payers are planning to push more data to the cloud over the next several years, while a HIMSS survey found 76% of hospitals and health systems are moving existing or new workloads to the cloud.
