Cloud for healthcare

Traditional healthcare is under increasing pressure to be transformed into a digitally connected care environment. As a result, priority investments are being made in data and analytics infrastructure and cloud for healthcare technologies.

Investments in developing a data network that offers access to underlying data silos and enables high-level data analytics tools should be prioritized. This path requires a change to on-demand cloud delivery of new capabilities.

In this blog, we’re going to dig deeper into the world of cloud for healthcare or to what many now refer to as e-health cloud. With a special emphasis on the opportunities and challenges that e-health cloud offers, we will also list out some of the most prominent cloud in healthcare tools that are re-shaping the way we look at healthcare in a modern setting.

What is e-Health?

E-health is a buzzword these days, but no one has yet come up with a definitive definition for this relatively new concept. The term was first used in 1999, but it now appears to be a general "buzzword" that is used to describe nearly everything linked to computers and medicine.For context, Intel actually referred to e-health as “a concerted effort undertaken by leaders in health care and hi-tech industries to fully harness the benefits available through convergence of the Internet and health care.”

In a broader sense, the term characterizes not only a technical development, but also a state-of-mind, a way of thinking, an attitude, and a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve health care locally, regionally, and worldwide by using information and communication technology.”As evidenced by these two definitions, e-health is so much more than just the convergence of medicine and the internet. Now, let’s define what e-health cloud is.