Most of us are well versed with the fact  that cloud technology enables healthcare organizations to concentrate their efforts on services being delivered and improved patient outcomes, significantly reducing the load of work of infrastructure management, simplifying technology adoption and driving down operational costs . Forbes had some time back reported that HIMSS Analytics’ survey of cloud computing adoption in healthcare provider organizations researched that 83% of the executives report they are using cloud services today.

The first step

A Digital Healthcare company should filter out potential cloud partners for their procedural, physical, operational and technical readiness to incorporate the PHI (Protected Health Information) ensuring the safety of the transactions containing PHI data. Any good-established commercial hosting facility has a variety of industry certificates: ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, SSAE 16 etc. When it comes to claiming HIPAA compliance, cloud vendors often include terms such as HIPAA enabled, which very well represents the security-related technical capabilities excluding legal compliances.

Gone are the days when doctors had to struggle through folders and bunches of papers to find crucial information about medical history of a patient. Enter 21st Century , Electronic Health records are replacing and helping efficient healthcare delivery .

An EHR ,a digital version of the traditional paper-based charts used by doctors to record medical information for an individual is now a known entity. The EMR represents a medical record within a single facility, such as a doctor's office or a clinic. What is still not well understood is the differentiation between EMR and EHR’S and how it can affect population health outcomes. This is what differentiates EHR’s Or Electronic health records from EHR’s which extend to cover medical and clinical records across multiple facilities ,providers, hospitals, and even across states. Moreover , EHRs help in easy sharing of patient’s medical information with other healthcare providers for the patient.

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