Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2012

Is cloud computing safe for healthcare?


So I am learning today one of the pitfalls of this new [old] technology called Cloud computing.  AWS, the cloud service from Amazon, has gone down.  How did I notice?  It took Netfilx down with it, meaning I am missing out on my Star Trek marathon I had planned for Christmas Eve.  So this has me thinking.  How can we trust cloud computing?  Can we trust it with healthcare, where there are so many life or death decisions made everyday?  What ways can be implemented to ensure uptime if using cloud computing in healthcare?  Any thoughts?