The cloud has become ubiquitous in American business, including healthcare. It provides easy, universal access to data and systems, big plusses when dealing with large workforces and needed IT. But security remains a nagging question: Is the cloud secure enough to hold a healthcare organizations precious data and applications? And how does a healthcare CIO balance security and ease of use?And and this is a big one how does the CIO explain all this to his or her colleagues in the C-suite?As technology becomes more of a commodity and more agnostic to the industry in other words, less unique to healthcare there is less of a need to own some of the technology in the traditional holistic manner, said Eli Tarlow, vice president and CIO at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.So owning your own data center in a hospital is less a requirement than it was 10 or 20 years ago, he said. In fact, space is a necessity in hospitals, space that was previously occupied by a data center, by things that now can be hosted in the cloud.

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