Health IT Outlook Cloudy with a Good Chance of Hybrid IT
The new Virtustream Healthcare Cloud platform from Dell EMC offers unique benefits in cost, value, security, and functionality. The forecast for EMR application delivery, databases, interfaces, and other infrastructure requirements looks promising.
Big news arrived out of the Dell EMC World Conference held last month in Las Vegas. And for the healthcare industry, the news couldn’t appear any better. With more and more healthcare executives watching their economic bottom line, decisions around future implementations will heavily focus on cost, value, and functionality.
They are looking at ways to increase availability and drive performance of mission critical healthcare apps, resolve resource limitations, stretch constrained budgets, and reduce operations overhead. And it doesn’t stop there.
Along with saving time and saving money, they want to aggregate and deliver more services. In short, they’re looking for something that can revolutionize healthcare. And recently, Virtustream, a Dell EMC business, announced a new Healthcare Cloud platform that promises to do just that and more.
Welcome to the cloud!
In a nutshell, the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud will provide hosting in a HIPAA-compliant environment that satisfies the demanding security requirements of healthcare organizations.
On the financial side of things, Virtustream also promises a consumption-based pricing model, giving them another competitive market advantage.
Other benefits include:
- HIPAA and HITECH compliant environments
- High availability, reliability, and cloud uptime
- Full array of managed services
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Audit support
- Additional built-in services
Traditional attempts to transform the digital landscape of the Healthcare world have carried significant costs. The news out of Dell EMC World is that Virtustream Healthcare Cloud can promise all these capabilities at a considerable cost savings driven primarily by their pricing model.
Virtustream Healthcare Cloud was designed to help healthcare organizations of all sizes implement a layered secure infrastructure to protect sensitive patient health information. It’s a robust platform that meets country-specific data residency requirements in all its global locations by promising to guarantee its hosting capabilities remain in specified regions.
With the exponential demand for electronic medical record (EMR) systems by most healthcare organizations, the challenges of storage and security will only continue to grow. Virtustream Healthcare Cloud also includes a new Virtustream EMR Service. That offering includes Virtustream Enterprise Cloud and optional managed services for technical management of your entire EMR application suite infrastructure, database, application delivery, and data interfaces.
To be fair, other models in this space have promised similar functionality; however, the responsibility for HIPAA and HITECH compliance has typically fallen on the shoulders of the healthcare organization. That’s a heavy burden that can often compromise your growth and agility.
The new Virtustream Healthcare Cloud takes that burden away from the healthcare client. Those services and capabilities are built-in. That means sunshine and blue skies ahead.
So, bring on the fluffy white clouds and cue the choir of angels singing in the background. The future of healthcare just got a lot brighter and cloudier!