Digital Health NOW Spotlight Report: Application of Cloud Technologies in Healthcare

As someone associated with technology in the healthcare industry, you must have come across several references to cloud computing and how it offers the potential to drastically alter the way we leverage technology in the delivery of healthcare to Canadian citizens. Executives at healthcare organizations interviewed by Branham, however, acknowledge that moving to the cloud requires a paradigm shift in the mentality of both the policy makers and hospitals. The paradigm shift is as large a technology jump as the shift from mainframe computing to PC use, or the vault from standalone PCs to today’s highly distributed and collaborative internet. The inevitable shift to cloud computing is expected to have an equally profound impact on how healthcare is delivered.