CLOUD IN HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1/21/15

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1 CLOUD IN HEALTHCARE CURRENT STATE AND STRATEGIES THAT IMPACT THE BOTTOM LINE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As healthcare organizations struggle with competing priorities such as HITECH/ARRA, Meaningful Use, ICD-10, and ACA, providers are struggling to determine cost efficient, flexible, and scalable methods of providing accessible health information. With the rising costs, tight budgets, overwhelmed IT infrastructure and IT staff, many healthcare organizations are finding cloud/saas solutions an attractive option to fill the gap. 1

2 IS YOUR CIO TALKING ABOUT CLOUD? A recent Gartner survey of chief information officers (CIOs) reveal that almost half of all CIO s expect to operate cloud technologies within the next five years. According to the survey, CIO s will have to rethink several key factors: Using IT to support growth and competitive advantage Understanding what it means to be a digital enterprise Gaining value from an outside perspective Seeing the impact of people from inside the IT organization Understanding IT s influence on business success WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING? Cloud computing is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to shared configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud Computing National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST 2

3 FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF CLOUD 1. Standardized Information Technology (IT) services are implemented 2. Easy access via the Internet from any computer: Cloud services can be conveniently accessed by using a standard Web browser 3. Cloud computing is highly available and scalable: Replication is part of the cloud framework 4. Capabilities are easily scaled and can be automatically adjusted to meet demand. 5. Pay only for what you use and only while you use it DEPLOYMENT & SERVICE MODELS Cloud computing is defined by various deployment models based on services based adoption Factors, each of which provides distinct trade off for healthcare organization considering migration of their applications/services to cloud infrastructure: Private Cloud Community Cloud Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud 3

4 SERVICE BASED MODELS FOR HEALTHCARE Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) - EHRs/EMRs, Web based portals, HIEs Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Custom Physician Portals, HIEs Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Virtualized servers, storage, networking, firewalls, backup recovery, archiving and associated management tools BUSINESS DRIVERS FOR HEALTHCARE CLOUD ADOPTION Tangible business drivers for the adoption of SaaS/Cloud services are: Lowered Cost of Ownership Efficiencies of Resources Increased Business Agility Information Ubiquity Disaster Recovery Capabilities 4

5 HEALTHCARE CLOUD BENEFITS Cost Efficiency Less Upfront Investment Business Focus Interoperability Accelerated Development to meet new regulations Seamless Integrated Healthcare Delivery HEALTHCARE CLOUD BARRIERS IT leaders are typically not driving cloud Redeployment of existing investments and staff The security question; is cloud HIPAA compliant? Abundance of Legacy systems and technologies in healthcare Resistance to do something new/risk aversion culture in Healthcare 5

6 HOW TO GET STARTED EVALUATING CLOUD 1. Preparedness Analysis Organization IT Department Is SaaS right model? SaaS Readiness Business Requirements Functional Requirements Non-Functional Requirements 2. Define Product Business requirements Functional requirements Technical requirements Business Risks Technical Risks Process Risks Analysis Identify Risk Define Product Provide Experts Comments Architecture Infrastructure Management Quality Assurance Process & Practices 3. Expert Input Technical/Security Financial 4. Risk Analysis 6

7 QUESTIONS THANK YOU 7