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We're talking about cloud providers here, not pharmaceutical or insurance providers. There are different levels of interaction required to accomplish different
by bilbo0s 7y ago
We're talking about cloud providers here, not pharmaceutical or insurance providers. There are different levels of interaction required to accomplish different operational objectives. Giving a cloud provider this sort of access is, as I said initially, highly irregular. There is just not that same level of collaboration needed with your cloud provider.
Just as a for instance, there are very good operational reasons on your side that pharmaceutical partners need the data to be reasonably certain that the 1000 doses of highly controlled substance X that they previously sent to you, or distributed on your behalf, were administered to people who both required the medication, and who actually exist. That pharmaceutical partner needs to have the ability to be certain of this prior to sending you, or distributing for you, the 10000 additional doses you are all of a sudden requesting.
By contrast, there is no operational reason on your side that a cloud provider needs to know the names and addresses of the patients in your database.
- Spooky23 7y agoCloud providers can provide all sorts of services. Who says they are just selling dumb storage services? If you use Office 365, they process your data to do analytics. Some they expose to you (Delve, MyAnalytics), others they don’t. In government, they do even more. Medicaid systems are usually run by third parties, who also sell services to providers to optimize billing.