Source: http://www.hitleadersandnews.com/why-hospitals-should-consider-off-site-backup-to-cloud-services/
With each day that passes, hospitals are finding it increasingly difficult to manage and protect burgeoning amounts of patient data. Sophisticated healthcare applications, data-intensive technologies, new IoT sensors, increased use of medical imaging, and mobile devices are generating more patient data that ever before. This, combined with stringent regulations mandating secure, long-term records retention and limited budgets makes it harder than ever for mid-sized hospitals to manage and contain cost, which unfortunately is often reflected in quality of patient care.
Faced with ever increasing amounts of data, hospitals that have traditionally relied on traditional tape-based backup now find themselves watching time and cost associate with the creation, management, transportation and storage skyrocket. Many IT decision-makers find themselves considering purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) but quickly find this means purchasing expensive, redundant boxes with limited scalability outside of sizing up to the next appliance. Software ties across hardware lines also means that vendor lock-in limits future choice, a difficult consideration for forward-thinking IT managers who understand the value inherent in the freedom of choice.
These industry challenges, as well as increased layers of complexity and expense are forcing hospital administrators to literally think outside of the box. Just as a pearl is created by pressure, a new generation of hospitals is emerging as a result of increased pressure to skillfully move, manage and protect data. These new hospitals will gracefully navigate through their ever growing data lakes, analyzing trends in patient outcomes, offering single patient records that can be updated in real time and increasing collaboration with the larger medical community.
This is a critical time for IT decision-makers within the hospital system, as they need to decide if they will stay anchored to the past or embrace backup to the cloud services.
The hospital IT decision-makers brave enough to move forward and embrace cloud storage will be almost instantly rewarded by reduced cost and complexity. They will find the cloud-enabled backup and recovery services are easy to integrate, simple to manage and highly secure at a fraction of what traditional PBBA or tape-based backup costs. This savings can grow to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on size of hospital or clinic.
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