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EHR on the Cloud?

Should Electronic Health Records be maintained on the cloud? Controversy is heating up.

A client-server model links clinicians to a single secure server computer that holds the records. Using the complex multiple geographically-distributed server configuration provided by a cloud vendor threatens greater risk of data "leakage" as noted in eWeek.com for August 17, 2010 ("10 Reasons Why It's a Bad Idea").

Yet chief information officers of giant corporations and banks are moving their operations onto clouds... even to public clouds vended by, say, Amazon or IBM.

My opinion: plan to have your EHR system on a cloud by year 2015. The advantages are overwhelming.

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