Rackspace is one of the world’s most prominent hosting services, going back long before the term “cloud” was applied to these offerings. In our recent interview, Vice President of Healthcare Tim Lankes says that healthcare is the largest industry segment covered by Rackspace, and that it is the largest private cloud hoster of Epic outside of Epic itself.
One of Rackspace’s strengths, going back to its early days as a hosting service, is that it supports both public clouds (where clients lease temporary services on shared systems) and private clouds (where particular computers are devoted to a client). Lankes says that Rackspace helps healthcare systems decide how to cut costs and support their innovation by using the best combination of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud systems.
Although the EHR is one of the main applications considered by healthcare providers, most are moving other applications to the cloud, including non-clinical ones. But in many ways healthcare lags behind other industries in exploiting the benefits of cloud services: cost savings, security advantages, reliability, staffing, and more.
For example, moving to the cloud relieves some of the pressure to find IT staff as well as to maintain the systems locally. This is particularly important at many healthcare organizations that have trouble finding qualified IT experts to host and maintain IT infrastructure in their own data centers. That said, a move to the cloud often does requires personnel changes or upskilling of staff for the new environment.
Clients used to worry about costs rising out of their control, but these concerns have diminished. Another trend is to centralize systems in a single provider, because this allows easier integration for intensive computing operations such as AI. Rackspace’s AI platform supports the entire range of development and production use that may be required by a healthcare organization.
Check out this interview with Tim Lankes from Rackspace to learn more about healthcare’s efforts to move to the cloud including vital applications like Epic.
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