Best Practices In Cloud Computing For The Healthcare Industry

Today, healthcare organizations face an array of challenges: the need to comply with HIPAA, the HITECH Act for “meaningful use” of information, recovery audit tracker (RAC) audits, and IDC-10 disease classification mandates. They also must improve care outcomes while protecting patient health information (PHI).

The need to protect data is more urgent than ever, because risks are mounting. Criminal attacks on hospitals are on a huge upward trend, with a frightening 100 percent reported increase just from four years ago, according to a new Ponemon Institute study. HIPAA privacy and security breaches are also on the rise. The number of patient health records compromised in a HIPAA data breach since 2009 has risen to 29.3 million, a 138 percent jump just from 2012.

Adding to the challenges, healthcare organizations must serve an increasing number of patients due to an aging U.S. population, ensure consistent quality between rural and urban providers, be accountable for outcomes, provide accurate measures of success, and accomplish all of these outcomes at lower costs.

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