{"id":4721,"date":"2014-07-14T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2014-06-18T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:24:57","slug":"health-care-in-the-cloud-despite-security-concerns-early-cloud-use-widespread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/health-care-in-the-cloud-despite-security-concerns-early-cloud-use-widespread\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care in the Cloud: Despite Security Concerns, Early Cloud Use Widespread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health care organizations say that they already are significantly using the cloud, based on a <a title=\"2014 HIMSS Analytics Cloud Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.himssanalytics.org\/research\/AssetDetail.aspx?pubid=82160&amp;tid=127\" target=\"_blank\">cloud survey by HIMSS<\/a>. \u00a0Although 75 percent of organizations surveyed said that they preferred using a private or hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>83 percent say that they are using cloud services<\/li>\n<li>86 percent say they are already hosting applications in the cloud<\/li>\n<li>79 percent are using the cloud for disaster recovery and backup<\/li>\n<li>78 percent say that the cloud is their primary data storage<\/li>\n<li>77 percent say that they are archiving data in the cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not surprisingly, health organizations consider security as one of their top concerns and factors when entering into a relationship with a cloud provider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>58 percent say the physical security offered by the service provider is important<\/li>\n<li>47 percent say they check the technical security of the service provider<\/li>\n<li>41 percent say the administrative security offered by the cloud service provider is important<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report found that &#8220;the future of cloud services is positive, especially among those health care organizations that already use cloud services. \u00a0Nearly all of the health care organizations 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