3 Considerations for Choosing a Public Cloud Partner in Healthcare
Summary
Whether its Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, NextGate’s solutions can be hosted on either public cloud, putting customers in control of their mission-critical information in the most convenient, secure and agile ways possible. Today, cloud is a fundamental requirement for healthcare organizations wanting to digitally transform their operations to store, manage, and analyze mass amounts of data from various locations and sources. In addition to the implementation of controls around state privacy and compliance laws, security vulnerability scanning and 24×7 monitoring for unwanted network access are also basic requirements for cloud in healthcare. Because healthcare organizations often transmit and access PHI data electronically, a HIPAA compliant cloud services provider will ensure that they comply with CMS’ Privacy, Security and Breach Notification rules. With the right cloud provider, IT leaders can manage services and computing capacity on-demand and expand (or shrink) their organization’s infrastructure as needed, without adding extra equipment, resources, or support for every change.