Cloud adoption in healthcare was considered slow compared with other industries, mostly because of the many commercial off-the-shelf products in use. But recently, healthcare organizations across the U.S. have turned to the cloud to meet evolving patient expectations and increasing data creation, collection and analysis. The use of Software as a Service (SaaS) products has also influenced cloud adoption for clinical and nonclinical applications.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major catalyst for renewed urgency of cloud adoption. As healthcare systems accelerated telehealth programs and set…
