3rd Platform for Health IT

For the low-low price of $4500 (that's $500 per page) you can buy this 9 page report on how the athenahealth-BIDMC alignment is evidence that cloud-based information technology will form the basis of tomorrow's health IT solutions.  Obviously, I've not read the report.  It's not clear if Bernie Monegan has either, but she's written an article about it, which has generated some buzz on the Internet in recent days.  (One wonders about a relationship between HIMSS – which owns Healthcare IT News – and ICD – but I don't recall that there is one) ..  Let me save you $4500.   Where the data lives doesn't make this new.   SMS (which became Siemens and of course is now Cerner) hosted hospitals' data in their data center in Malvern 25 years ago.  Call that a "cloud" in 2015 parlance, but a hosting facility is a hosting facility.   Yes – there are some differences.  Traditional hosting is single-tenant.  The server(s) are dedicated to a given facility, and they're mirrored to a redundant facility for disaster preparedness.  The server looks, acts and feels like is in the hospital basement rather than in some data center in a secret mountain in Colorado – and there is a (virtual) dedicated wire that goes from the hospital to the data center.  The CIO can tour the data center and the guy with a pocket protector can point to "your" s...
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