Nearly 83 percent of healthcare providers currently use cloud-based services, and 9 percent indicate plans to start using cloud-based services, according to the inaugural HIMSS Analytics Cloud Survey.
Here are the top eight reasons healthcare providers and organizations adopted a cloud solution.
1. Cheaper than maintaining current IT maintenance costs — 55.7 percent
2. Speed of deployment — 53.2 percent
3. Lack of internal staff and/or expertise — 51.6 percent
4. More robust disaster recovery — 50.0 percent
5. Need for on-demand, scalable, always on solution — 45.2 percent
6. Regulatory compliance — 41.9 percent
7. Better information security — 26.7 percent
8. Mobility of workforce — 26.7 percent
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