HealthTech Magazines June 21, 2022

By Anil Saldanha, Chief Cloud Officer, Rush University System for Health

Health systems comprise a group of hospitals providing health care services to people. Information Technology (IT) plays a critical role in care delivery since it is typically responsible for the deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of the EHR system.

Cloud computing usage at health systems is on the rise. We can review the usage using cloud service models – SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). In addition, using the cloud paradigms namely Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds.

The public cloud adoption for EHR systems at health systems has been slow but does show promise for the future. The EHR vendors...

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