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What is a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)?

Cloud adoption rates continue to grow in healthcare and beyond. Organizations across industries recognize the tremendous potential benefits that cloud services can provide—including enhanced flexibility, improved scalability, access to cutting-edge ... Read more
| Author Karl Reeves, tagged in

5 Reasons Your Cloud Migration Isn’t Paying Off – Inside the Wall Street Journal's Cloud Snafu

Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article arguing that organizations are struggling to reap ROI from public cloud computing under the misleading headline CIOs Still Waiting for Cloud Investments to Pay Off. ... Read more
| Author Gerry Miller, tagged in cloud migration healthcare, cloud migration

2023 Healthcare IT Predictions

As the year rolls to a close, we’ve scanned the industry and consulted our own internal experts to collect forecasts on what we can expect for healthcare IT in the new year. Here are a few of our 2023 healthcare IT predictions: ... Read more
| Author Gerry Miller, tagged in Healthcare Industry

FedRAMP vs. FISMA – What’s the Difference? | Cloudticity

FISMA and FedRAMP are two of the most important security compliance programs for cloud computing and cloud deployments. However, many organizations fail to understand the differences between them. In short, FedRAMP is a government-wide program ... Read more
| Author Kate Wang, tagged in Compliance, Security, Healthcare, cloud partner, cloud managed services, cloud security, data, reliability, technology, FISMA, FedRamp


Top 9 Cybersecurity Threats for Healthcare

Whether it's online dating and grocery delivery or cryptocurrencies and autonomous vehicles, nearly every aspect of our lives has been utterly transformed by modern computing. ... Read more
| Author Cody Malloy, tagged in Security, cloud security

Unpacking HITRUST CSF v11 – What's New and Important?

Since 2007, the vaunted HITRUST CSF certification has been helping organizations in a variety of highly-regulated industries, such as healthcare, demonstrate their commitment to safety and security. ... Read more
| Author Jerry Shaffer, tagged in HITRUST

Top Five Cloud Challenges of 2023 – and How to Overcome Them

The Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report is here. According to the report, organizations are embracing cloud technologies, with 96% of all organizations using public cloud to some degree. This means good news for companies wishing to achieve ... Read more
| Author Boseme Mukete, tagged in aws cost optimization

AWS Savings Plans Guide 2023

Cloud platforms such as AWS offer companies in the healthcare space a number of important cost advantages. ... Read more
| Author Robert Wagner, tagged in aws cost optimization

How to Get HITRUST Certified - Follow These 7 Steps

As organizations store and manage more health information in cloud environments, their attack surface areas are expanding. They face a growing risk that their environment will be breached, leaving sensitive patient data exposed. In fact, the number ... Read more
| Author Jerry Shaffer, tagged in HITRUST

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