Cloudticity Blog

If you’re like our friend Steve and you’re spending Valentine’s day cuddled up with your laptop, that’s okay! There are quite a few other amazing things to embrace, including Kubernetes.

As healthcare organizations leverage the public cloud to build complex multi-tiered applications, they are finding it increasingly difficult to deploy and manage these systems in a secure, scalable, and consistent manner.  To solve some of these problems, organizations are turning to containerization as a means to provide a consistent deployment and operational platform regardless of environment.

Cloud computing has paved the way for a new generation of faster software development and deployment, known as DevOps. Healthcare organizations leverage DevOps to improve security, agility, efficiency, and to deliver software faster.

With a 320% year over year increase in cyber attacks, the healthcare industry is increasingly a target for hackers. HITRUST CSF is an advanced system of controls created to address the demands for data security in healthcare. 

Let's discuss why HITRUST is important, and how much it costs.

AWS has introduced two new Savings Plans this year. They both offer substantial savings compared to On-Demand compute pricing.  The Savings Plans can be used in conjunction with Reserved Instances (RIs).  

Read this blog to understand the differences between the Savings Plans and RIs, as well as the pros and cons of each Savings Plan, so that you can choose the plan that’s right for you.

Healthcare, life sciences, and genomic organizations are moving to the cloud in order to harness the power of faster software development and deployment, improved performance, and lower operational costs.

Healthcare providers generate a tremendous amount of data. Hospitals and doctors’ offices use computer systems for managing patient information such as records, tracking, and billing. All of these systems need to communicate with each other when they receive new information or when they wish to retrieve information.

This exchange of massive data sets and sensitive information creates huge challenges. In order to understand where we are today with healthcare data solutions, it’s helpful to take a look back at how the industry has evolved.

We all know that America is in the midst of a public health crisis and that we will face a shortage of up to 95,000 physicians by 2025. The good news is that there are many technologists out there who see the problem and are actively creating solutions to fix it.

Caredove, for example, is an e-referral platform that is connecting infants with screening programs in order to identify and stop the development of life-altering diseases. Boston Children’s Hospital, too, created an Alexa-based ICU tool that helps streamline clinical operations, freeing up hospital bandwidth. Similarly, Cloudticity offers data interoperability solutions that collect, manage, and analyze data, allowing healthcare, life science, and genomic companies to spend less time trying to make sense of their data and more time actively helping the world.

Everything you do in your AWS environment creates a log, and every log plays an important role in keeping your customers’ data safe. If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you know that having the ability to store, analyze, and retrieve these records is crucial for security and compliance purposes.

HITRUST certification is many things. It’s a shortcut to securing your system against the danger of data breaches; a process for ensuring compliance with HIPAA and other regulations; and a competitive edge for your business in the increasingly crowded healthcare information security space. One thing it is definitely not, however, is an easy accomplishment.