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Some hospitals are moving to cloud based EHR systems, so its probably not impossible. And most hospitals now have at least one relationship with an HIE that is
by hitgeek 11y ago
Some hospitals are moving to cloud based EHR systems, so its probably not impossible. And most hospitals now have at least one relationship with an HIE that is normally not self-hosted, so IT groups have experience with data exchange.
As long as all the HIPAA stuff is in order, I think hospital IT groups are more open to cloud based services today than 5 years ago.
- kohanz 11y agoI agree that things are moving in the right direction. The trouble is that when building a solution that should be expandable to more centers as the customer base grows, you almost have to build it for the lowest common denominator (in other words, the most restrictive hospital IT department). I have my doubts (but not a lot of experience) that a strict hospital would allow access to an external cloud web app / database that records PHI in the OR (without some lengthy re-assurances and testing). I suppose this should be treated as an enterprise solution and there's no getting around the fact that the sales and deployment cycle will be long and costly (time and resources). Each hospital will have different requirements. I'm mostly curious as to whether we can get away with the app being completely based in the cloud and being accessed from the hospital, or whether we need a middle layer that resides in each medical center.