Friday, September 02, 2011 10:59:01 AM
Here is a little bit of a writing from MIT.
Electronic Health Records in the Cloud
Doctors are great at diagnosing and treating disease. They are not good at server hosting, database administration, and implementing government data protection rules, nor do they want to pay for costly hardware and software. I believe the only way to rapidly implement electronic health records is via the cloud.
Cloud computing—storing data and programs in centralized servers rather than in the doctor's office—requires novel security engineering to resist malware, denial of service, and sophisticated hacker attacks that could jeopardize private health information. But they solve other problems, such as making it possible for complex software to be scaled up and maintained without any technical involvement in clinician offices.
In the near term, regulatory requirements will result in the rise of "private clouds" hosted by large hospitals and software vendors, but commercial cloud providers are likely to develop secure hosting, given the enormous business potential of hosting electronic records for the more than 500,000 physicians in the U.S. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where I am chief information officer, I estimate that moving infrastructure and applications to my hospital's private cloud has reduced the cost of implementing electronic health records by half.
Modular Software Unleashes Innovation
Less expensive cloud-based software, combined with tablet computers, will unleash a wave of software innovation. Until very recently, innovation in medical IT has depended upon the development schedules of a few very large vendors who sell hospital systems with $100 million price tags. In the future, electronic health records will become increasingly modular, similar to the online app stores where consumers download games or programs for their phones. Imagine a cool new app that provides a dashboard for diabetics, showing their daily glucose readings and sounding an alert if they aren't managing their disease well. Doctors today must wait for their medical center's single monolithic vendor to develop such an app. In the near future, modular software will let doctors and patients tap the creativity of thousands of entrepreneurs
Has anyone explained how dumb carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen molecules could
have, by combining accidently, become sentient--aware! and then utilized this
sentience to acquire a taste for hot dogs and the blues
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