Data Storage: Storing Health Records in the Cloud: 10 Reasons Why It’s a Bad Idea

Posted on Aug 18, 2010 in Records Management News

By Chris Preimes­berger on 2010-08-17

Cloud com­put­ing is a hot con­cept in the e-health records busi­ness. It’s easy to deploy and use, lit­tle or no infra­struc­ture is needed, and you pay as you go. The debate con­tin­ues about how secure impor­tant per­sonal doc­u­ments, such as finan­cials and health care reports, are in cloud stor­age; there seems to be no con­clu­sive answers. Both the pro– and anti-cloud camps have clear points in their favor. This slide show exam­ines the poten­tial pit­falls of stor­ing health records in the cloud and why physi­cians should store and main­tain their data on local ser­vices instead of in a dis­tant, Web-based, on-demand sys­tem. A key dis­clo­sure: Our chief resource here is Dr. Jonathan Bert­man, founder and CEO of Amaz­ing Charts, a client/server-based health-care record soft­ware maker. Not­ing his pro­fes­sional bias, here are his views that the cloud isn’t the best place to store for your per­sonal health records.
Read more and view slide show at:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Storing-Health-Records-in-the-Cloud-10-Reasons-Why-Its-a-Bad-Idea-290388/

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