Digital Health October 11, 2023
The NHS is transitioning to cloud with an estimated 15-21% of trusts now hosting something off-site. The pace of adoption has been slow, but could that be about to change? Vivienne Raper reports
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is a couple of months off going almost entirely paperless on public cloud.
“[Almost] the only thing we still have on premise is our file server, which we’re getting rid of, because we’re going onto [Microsoft] OneDrive and SharePoint on Office 365,” explains Lee Rickles, chief information officer at the trust.
The trust has most of its systems hosted on Amazon Web Services, says Rickles. Once the file server is gone, the last holdout will be the trust’s access control for the...