'Healthcare is slow to change' to cloud environment

Part two of a two-part series: Cloud computing is not just on the healthcare horizon. Partial and pure-play cloud computing architectures are already serving healthcare information technology needs in the U.S.Denver Health uses outsourced IT for a majority of its applications. Its service provider is Siemens, whose services meet most—but not all—of the essential characteristics in a definition of cloud computing released this summer by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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