Before this initiative, stakeholders say, such a collaboration would have been difficult to coordinate, with challenges including insufficient data entry and security concerns over the transfer of large amounts of patient data between centers.

As we have moved past the innovator stage and well into the early adopter phase of the cloud in imaging, says one expert, now is the time for cloud solutions to unleash their untapped potential.

Hospitals planning a move to the cloud should conduct due diligence before choosing a vendor to ensure they have experience in the healthcare space, experts say, and even then the move to the cloud isn't without some growing pains.

Companies’ digital transformations have come a long way, but as cloud platforms continue to innovate, healthcare organizations need to evaluate carefully what is right for them for the long term.

While a multi-cloud management approach provides the necessary insight, automation and control to keep cloud sprawl in check, it remains an emerging market at an early stage of maturity.

As ever more enterprises seek out the capabilities a cloud solution can provide, including data distribution, improved performance and controlled costs, cloud growth is likely to be strong for the foreseeable future.

Among other steps, automating threat detection and increasing network visibility and control will help organizations lower their vulnerability to attacks.

With worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure forecast to hit $160 billion in 2018, a 23 percent increase on 2017 investment levels, CIOs in healthcare and other sectors are scrambling to choose the cloud provider that’s best for the

As patient data grows, healthcare organizations face an increasing demand for storage. The enterprise hybrid cloud is increasingly a viable alternative to on-premises infrastructures.

As CIO’s get tired of “keeping up,” say experts, more healthcare enterprises are adopting a hybrid IT infrastructure made up of both physical data centers and the public cloud.