Becker's Healthcare October 10, 2023
As hospitals and health systems begin moving their EHRs and workloads to the cloud, organizations are beginning to see improvements in efficiencies, up-front infrastructure costs and cybersecurity.
Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health recently moved its EHR playground workload, a software environment that allows onboarding residents and nursing students to practice placing orders and writing patient notes without using patient data, from its on-premise environment to Google Cloud.
The move, according to Kash Patel, executive vice president and chief digital information officer of the health system, has increased agility, improved reliability and increased security for Hackensack.
“Data is at the core of how we are modernizing healthcare, and having all of our EHR workloads and other significant data...