Cloud computing and/or Managed Services should be an important component of your strategy for Health Information Exchange. Here are just a few of the reasons why so many healthcare organizations are moving to the cloud:
Cloud computing reduces costs. Because sharing resources and virtualization enable you to achieve economies of scale with higher utilization, you can reduce your investment in hardware, software, and the data centers that house and cool them. The pay-as-you-go shared resource model lowers your total cost of IT ownership.
Cloud-based solutions can free up your clinically trained IT resources. Because you’ll need fewer resources to maintain your EMRs, you can dedicate your valued IT resources to developing innovative new applications and services that will improve healthcare efficiency, enhance patient satisfaction, and take advantage of meaningful use incentives. Cloud computing can also accelerate your development of new services such as mHealth networks and patient portals.
Cloud computing improves efficiencies. Your data will be more readily accessible and always available to the organizations in your network, no matter how widely dispersed, to facilitate integration across the healthcare continuum.
With scalable servers and storage, you’ll have the capacity you need to store, integrate, and access electronic medical records, lab reports, prescriptions, and other health data.
The OnX Federated Cloud, with its adaptable approach to secure, private cloud computing, is ideal for healthcare providers that want to transition to cloud computing but are concerned about PHIPA/HIPAA compliance and the security risks associated with public clouds. A private cloud is a low-risk solution for electronic health records and other sensitive data. The OnX Healthcare Team will help you select and build the ideal private cloud at your data center or at one of our highly secure Tier 3, SSAE 16 (formerly SAS 70) certified data centers. You can manage your own private cloud, or our OnExpert Team can manage it for you. For many healthcare providers, hosting a private cloud with OnX is much more cost effective than hiring and maintaining a 24/7 in-house IT organization.
Within the Federated Cloud framework, the OnX Healthcare Team will design, build, and manage a cohesive and adaptable mix of private and shared cloud computing deployments. You can decide which resources will be on-premise or off-premise, which will be in a private cloud or in a secure shared cloud, and which will be hosted, managed, or entirely controlled by your internal team. And, because the OnX Federated Cloud is completely unified, you can migrate your cloud implementation from one deployment mode to another when you’re ready.