Modern Healthcare January 1, 2023
By Jacob Sims, Gainwell Technologies
The pros and cons of cloud have been debated for decades. But as our industry moves away from monolithic Medicaid Management Information Systems to modular Medicaid Enterprise Systems, now is a good time to revisit the debate.
States have two primary choices when it comes to the hosting that will serve as the foundation for their system: move to the cloud, or keep an on-premises (or “on-prem”) architecture. Historically, security has been a big part of the decision — or indecision — to migrate to the cloud due in part to the perceived security benefits of having servers and data stored in an onsite location. But the fact that many of the nation’s healthcare companies...