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Clinicians at the front line rarely worry about the location of their data, yet it is a critical cost, safety, and performance issue for the IT department. Due to the exponential growth in the amount of health data, several suppliers can no longer manage the costs and implications on local data centers.

While many firms are more convenient to store data in the premises, which promises control over security, access, and up-time, the on-site server network can be costly, hard to operate, and prone to data silo production in various departments.

Cloud storage is becoming more and more common as costs decrease and reliability increases. Nearly, 90% of healthcare firms use some cloudbased IT infrastructure, including warehousing and applications in a 2016 survey.

The cloud promises a smooth recovery from disasters, reduced upfront costs, and simpler expansion—even though enterprises have to be exceedingly careful to select partners who understand the significance of HIPAA and other compliance and safety issues for health.

Many firms have a hybrid approach to their data store initiatives, which can offer providers with diverse access and storage requirements the most flexible and workable solution. However, providers should be careful to ensure that separate systems can communicate and share data with other sectors of the company when appropriate while establishing a hybrid infrastructure.