title: What CFOs should know before venturing into the cloud.
abstract: There are three major trends in the use of cloud-based services for healthcare IT: Cloud computing involves the hosting of health IT applications in a service provider cloud. Cloud storage is a data storage service that can involve, for example, long-term storage and archival of information such as clinical data, medical images, and scanned documents. Data center colocation involves rental of secure space in the cloud from a vendor, an approach that allows a hospital to share power capacity and proven security protocols, reducing costs.
authors.affiliation: GNAX Health, Atlanta, USA. jrajendran@gnax.net
authors.forename: Janakan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rajendran
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D014481:United States