Before moving data to the cloud, health organizations should assess benefits and risks

A growing number of health care organizations expect to move their electronic health records (EHRs) to the cloud.¹ Migrating EHRs and other data to the cloud could make it easier for these organizations to build and use next-generation solutions such as big data analytics, population health, digital health, and use of the internet of things (IoT) to keep pace with future trends.

While the enterprise challenges of a cloud migration are similar in every industry (e.g., determination of cloud suitability, visibility into threats and risk exposure, and understanding of responsibilities), the use of the cloud in health care is a little bit different. The critical use cases to which health organizations migrate their data and applications in the...