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Healthcare Cloud Computing: Rapid Growth Predicted at least through 2017
The Healthcare industry has traditionally been conservative and slow moving when adopting new IT technologies.
Harry Greenspun, senior adviser to Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, told eWeek that “it’s rarely a question of scale; it’s always a question of pace. With so many things in health care, we’re often slow to adopt new technologies with concerns over privacy and security, and the issue of not having the data where you are. So we’re going through the same kind growing pains that other industries have gone through related to the cloud but usually a little bit after they have.”
But the healthcare cloud computing market is definitely picking up. In 2011, only about 4 percent of health care IT providers had adopted some form of cloud computing, but it was at that point that the market started to grow at a healthy rate of about 20 percent each year, and it’s expected to continue until 2017, when it ultimately reaches a market size of $5.4 billion, based on a report by MarketAndMarket. Those estimates are similar to those published by Kalorama which predicts 21 percent growth of healthcare cloud computing in 2013, reaching $3.9 billion by the end of this year.
Bruce Carlson, Publisher of Kalorama Information, said that “EMR is driving this market. Hospitals are building great systems for gathering electronic records, but they need solutions to store all of that data, and it can’t be a new server wing that might compete with needed space for care.”
Healthcare organizations are also finding it cheaper to use cloud computing rather than local storage, particularly for managing big data sets, data sets for example, which include EHRs, radiology images, and genomic data for clinical drug trials.
