The Future of Cloud in Healthcare
Compared to other industries, healthcare has been slow to adopt modern cloud strategies. But in the last two years, as health systems grew taxed with figuring out how to rapidly connect people, technology and data in completely new ways, the challenges associated with operating under traditional on-premises model became increasingly visible.
Not only has the pandemic accelerated stakeholders' need to interact with disparate data streams to effectively collaborate on clinical and operational efforts, but the push to support these types of remote workflows has in turn accelerated the prioritization of cloud modernization initiatives for many healthcare organizations.
As a result, we've witnessed the rapid implementation of telehealth, IoT, and workflow automation solutions. Combined with efforts aimed at enhancing the ability to aggregate, normalize and derive actionable insights from data, these IT investments have significantly moved the cloud adoption needle for a historically reluctant industry.