Top 5 confidential computing uses in healthcare

Big data meets private data in a perfect storm for healthcare. Confidential computing providers say they’ll make the cloud safer for medical data.

Healthcare information is personal and private. For both legal and ethical reasons, it’s critical to keep it that way. Government regulations like HIPAA have been in the headlines a lot lately, but tech companies are still exploring how to implement them.

Many companies try to package privacy in different ways. Confidential computing is an initiative that often ends up spoken of in the same breath as patient and personally identifiable information privacy and has become a new frontier for cloud providers.

Confidential computing aims to protect data while it’s in transit, in use and...