Cloud computing represents "the direction of travel" as the NHS works towards a Department of Health target of going paperless by 2018, Mike Jones, Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust director of IT, has toldComputing.
In an effort to improve efficiency and cut costs, the NHS aims to switch from using paperwork to using digital records, thus allowing patient information to be entered and retrieved digitally from mobile devices. For that to be successful, explained Jones, the NHS needs to adopt more cloud storage and hosting-based solutions.
"If we are to deliver all of the things we have to deliver and have them on mobile devices - wherever the patient is and wherever the individual clinician is - cloud is a very attractive solution," Jones continued. "Because you avoid the problems you have trying to connect through to the NHS network and hosting in local datacentres can be difficult.""We accept that the general direction of travel will be cloud," he said. For complete and original post see here
