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| quote: Originally posted by TXJIM:
Google is providing cloud storage space to Ascension, aka public cloud. Ascension is using a VNA (vendor neutral archive) to write data to the Google Cloud. To Google, this data is just bits and bytes. They do not have the front end application access to see, access or use this data in any way.
This is no different than Ascension storing PHI in any other common storage appliance. Most large healthcare providers are storing data with any number of cloud storage providers as the cost and resources required to store all of the data Hospitals are required by law to keep is becoming untenable in an onsite model.
I can assure you all, as this is my business, there is absolutely nothing nefarious happening here on the part of either party.
I agree on this. Many here might be surprised at how much data is stored in the cloud, Google and many others. May hospital, medical, and insurance companies are transitioning their EMR and other systems to the cloud. As TXJIM wrote, it is bits and bytes that are encrypted. Many EMR and PACS providers offer to host in their own cloud rather than Google, AWS, Azure, Rack Space, or others. I recently transitioned several medical systems to Azure. |
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