Why cloud migration is the best solution for healthcare industries

Introduction

The healthcare industry has been considered as traditional and a slow adopter of digital transformation and there are obvious and valid reasons for the cautious approach. Many healthcare organizations have not adapted to the technology and their main focus is on automating back-office, reimbursement, payment, medical records digitization and regulating accreditation and compliance. In many developing and emerging countries, IT budgets are very minimal as it competes with investments like operational expansion or radiological equipment. 

Digital healthcare IT transformation has reduced expenditure while providing a higher level of engagement and services for all providers, stakeholders, patients, payers, and physicians. When it comes to the cloud transformation, the healthcare sector seems very cautious - where they migrate non-critical works or back-end works. Now the healthcare sector has started realizing the benefits outweighing the risks, after realizing that they are swiftly accelerating data and clinical application to the cloud.

In a recent report published by BCC research, the healthcare solution is globally estimated at approximately $20.2 billion in the year 2019 and it is expected to grow to up to $35 billion by the year 2022. With this report, the North American healthcare solution market is estimated at around $5.7 billion in 2019 and by the year 2022, it is expected to double up to $10.2 billion.

Cloud technology has become an inevitable part of everyday life with just a button click away. The cloud technology is a beneficial feature, around 83 percent of the healthcare organizations have migrated to the cloud. The cloud technology is changing the healthcare informatics and healthcare system. 

Healthcare and cloud

The cloud technology offers multiple benefits to the wide range of healthcare organizations by its virtual and elastic unlimited availability, highly scalable and accessibility of data despite velocity, variety, volume, and IT budgets. But still, some organizations have concerns over data security and privacy in cloud adoption. There are several benefits and advantages for healthcare organizations in cloud migration. On-demand cloud and storage minimize operational costs for healthcare services such as clinics and hospitals. Cloud also supports high data velocity being used in the modern healthcare industry such as patient portal, medical devices with IoT technology, electronic medical records, and big data analytics for improved decision making and therapeutic strategies. Cloud technology has changed clinical research face, with extended knowledge-sharing support and for clinical management trail. 

Advantages

Better management of data

Healthcare facilities are migrating to electronic health records, the field of public health are accumulating the wealth of data metrics. The cloud solution enables data mining for the researchers and assesses the general public health accurately. The more data that can be collected by researchers, that provides better opportunities to identify the potential diseases to avoid public health crises. This type of data mining will provide deep insight into various ways to save costs on healthcare. 

Integrated and efficient patient care

Earlier doctors were depending on the faxes or mailed chart papers for information sharing about patient treatment practices. Cloud platform offers one access point for the patient information, enabling multiple physicians to view consult notes or lab results or various other relevant patient records. Seamlessly collaborate treatment plans and transfers information instantly. Instead of waiting for practices over patient's results physicians can spend time on treatment options and patient care. 

How Cloud Assert solution is unique?

Cloud Assert cloud management platform such as VConnect, Billing Solution and Hybr - hybrid cloud management platform is a great solution for all the healthcare cloud needs who are looking for clouds based solutions in managing their VMs, cost management, data analytics, and many more on public, private or hybrid cloud. Cloud Assert's VConnect is a centralized virtual machine management platform that integrates various clouds and virtualization platforms with Azure Stack to have unified cloud experience. VConnect provides agility to businesses by integrating Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, OpenStack, VMware, Veeam, Commvault, Dell EMC Isilon, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Azure. 

The Cloud Assert Billing Solution is an insightful tool that enables charge-back for resources utilized in Cloud Platforms. It allows the cloud administrators to set prices in the Pay-As-You-Go model, Fixed Payment model, and the Hybrid model. Hybr is a rich and fastest cross-cloud automation and integration platform. It offers a multi-tenant portal experience that enables automation of workloads provisioning and management of IaaS VMs and related resources along with workflows and approval processes on a self-service basis. To know more for other healthcare-related services fix an appointment with our solution expert for a demo or write to us at support@cloudassert.com