Question

Explain in simple words what it means to have a patient medical information on the cloud?

Answer 1

A health care cloud is a cloud computing service. It is used by health care providers for storing, maintaining and backing up personal heath information.

Health care cloud services are capable of storing significantly more data than an on-site physical server, particularly when it comes to the large image files common in radiology departments.

Many physicians and health care organizations are reluctant to use health care cloud services for fear of suffering a data breach in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Due to the sensitive nature of the data being stored and accessed, many health care organizations are opting to avoid public cloud services and implementing a private cloudservice in-house instead.

Benefits:

• Can be easily stored
• Cost effective
• Can be accessible everywhere
• Can be recovered if damaged