Clouds in medicine

Technologies are developing rapidly. And a growing number of people are using technologies to improve their quality of life. Now it is easy to meet a passerby on the streets with a fitness tracker on their wrist. The latest smartphone models have apps for tracking steps. And there are a lot of sports applications that motivate people to do sports and monitor their health in marketplaces!

It would be surprising if, in such conditions, medicine still worked in an old-fashioned way, using local storage with limited availability and questionable security for managing patients.

Fortunately, progress does not standstill. After the advent of computers, cloud technologies have appeared and helped simplify workflows, save money, guarantee patients' data security, and provide prompt access to critical information.

Today we will talk about how beneficial clouds can be in the medical sphere. Clouds are universal, and both public/private clinics and medical centers, individual practitioners, and the pharmaceutical industry, laboratories, and research centers, insurance companies can equally benefit from their use, and this is not the end of the list.

So what are the main benefits that can be obtained from clouds introduction in medicine?

• Economy.
• Safety and security.
• Efficiency and accessibility.

Economy

We no longer need excessive IT resources – powerful servers in reserve, expensive backup systems, and huge zones for placing IT facilities. All this is provided by a cloud provider for much more reasonable money. One of the advantages of clouds is flexibility in resource utilization. This means that you can take exactly as many resources as you need now, and add or remove extra ones as necessary.

As a result, you pay only for what you use. And you invest saved funds and time of qualified specialists in information systems development.

Safety and security

Let's give a word to an Associate Professor of Genomic Medicine at Geisinger Health (USA, Pennsylvania), Nephi Welton: "There is one thing that people don't realize right now. Clouds are much safer than the measures that are being taken in some companies. Some organizations are afraid to move their database to the cloud, but at the same time have large "holes" in their security systems that put them at risk."

And this is actually the case. Local storage of critical information, such as medical histories, shots, test results, trials, and so on, is a serious risk. Of course, no one guarantees that the data will not leak out of the cloud if you do not update your software for years and forget about common sense in access policies. But the cloud can seriously help if the client is also interested in this.

Clouds provide much broader opportunities for securing and saving data. Reliable data centers, ideally outside of Ukraine, ensure physical security data and protect it from seizure without cause. Speaking about security at the software level, these are system snapshots, backups, encryption of channels, and disks.

Efficiency and accessibility

In medicine, life sometimes depends on the speed of obtaining information. And in less dramatic cases, doctors need to stay in touch with their patients. That is why it is crucial to have constant access to the data, the ability to quickly view it, process it, and give our recommendations. This is precisely the speed and availability that clouds provide at any time, anywhere, even from a smartphone or home computer.

Resume

Clouds are a relatively inexpensive way to store and process a large amount of data in one place and have quick access to it from anywhere in the world. Services from Tucha will help you organize work in the cloud, simple and reliable access to data, storage of backups, and fast file sharing:

• virtual servers and private networks of any configuration in Europe — TuchaFlex+;
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• reliable backup storage — TuchaBackup;
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In developed Western countries, clouds with all their advantages have already become a part of government policy. If you still do not use clouds and their full potential, then it is time to start. Read the reviews and write to us at sales@tucha.ua or call +380 44 583-5-583. We will always help you choose and configure your ideal cloud. Contact us 24×7.