Forbes August 15, 2023
David Chou

Healthcare providers are beginning to adopt the public cloud more actively. Forrester stated that 56% of surveyed organizations increased their cloud spending in the past year, despite macroeconomic uncertainty.

Adopting the public cloud appears promising, but historically, a significant hurdle has been that public cloud providers have struggled to integrate with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems because they couldn’t install the EMR in the public cloud environment.

The healthcare industry has also hesitated to adopt technology early on. Thus, in the initial stages, they used the public cloud primarily for disaster recovery and backup for the EMR. However, things have progressed, and now more healthcare provider organizations are beginning to move their production EMR systems to the cloud.

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Topics: Cloud, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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