[ Cloud Computing ] Re: State of affairs : Moving Healthcare Applications to the Cloud..

Dear Cloud Group Members,

Cloud for Pharma / Health Care is a huge opportunity. I suspect the
opportunity in this sector is considerably greater than other sectors
like Finacial Services who have already benefited from high level of
technology investments in grid computing, platform trading, etc..
Pharma/Health Care sector has under invested, thus has low realized
technology benefit.
The opportunities to leverage Cloud and open source to reduce health
care and research/clinical trial cost are huge. The industry's
historical impedance to technology investment will be disrupted by the
extreme need to reduce costs as part and parcel of providing universal
access to health care and survival of pharma.
The brass ring will be go to the service providers who can address the
particular needs of health care including the compliance bits. This
will take combination of both deep technology and deep domain
knowledge. I suspect specialists will emerge.

Barbara Bour

On Dec 20, 3:23 pm, "Jan Klincewicz" <jan.klincew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have sold into many Pharma / Health Care customers, and they do have
> serious compliance issues.  That being said, they were often more than
> willing to outsource their operations to HP / IBM / EDS etc.  As long as
> SOMEBODY takes care of the compliance issues, I think they will be
> satisfied.  There is no real magic to it, other than reams of documentation,
> paperwork, change controls, lock-downs etc.
>
> Granted, they are harder customers than most, but there is no compelling
> reason for them to need to do everything in-house as long as regulations are
> met.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Johan Louwers <sun...@dds.nl> wrote:
>
> > I think that specific clouds will come for for example banking, medical
> > companies and such. The clouds will have been developed with consideration
> > for sox and such requirements.
>
> > those markets will be small, however the company who will start it will be
> > able to make a fair deal of money from it.
>
> > regards,
> > johan louwers.
>
> > -- origineel bericht --
> > Onderwerp:      [ Cloud Computing ] State of affairs : Moving Healthcare
> > Applications to the Cloud..
> > Van:    Sankar Nagarajan <nagarajansan...@gmail.com>
> > Datum:          20-12-2008 19:28
>
> > Today,Many IT departments are evaluating the privacy, security, and
> > governance issues of public compute clouds, and some may decide it's a
> > route they're not willing to take. (See Bob Evans' related post on
> > InformationWeek's Global CIO blog :http://tinyurl.com/cloud1)
>
> > On the other side ,There is much debate going on in terms of deploying
> > certain consumer and medical/healthcare applications with sensitive
> > or  personal consumer data on the cloud (http://preview.tinyurl.com/
> > cloud2 <http://preview.tinyurl.com/cloud2>) as being 'Un-ethical,Illegal
> > and Untrustworthy"
>
> > Another point to consider is , Pharma /Life Sciences companies have
> > strict FDA and Sarbanes-Oxley related policies and compliance tightly
> > tied to their IT Systems and operations
>
> > Given the above, What is your viewpoint on How the trend will evolve
> > for this industry?
>
> > Do you think this would be one of the Industry verticals that would
> > see a *Lower Adoption* of cloud computing?
>
> > Do you think Technology and solutions are fast evolving that its a
> > matter of time before Healthcare or Pharma firms will find answers to
> > the challenges faced by them today? or Would the Cloud Vendors evolve
> > specific solutions to cater to this industry alone?
>
> > Please share your views....
>
> > - SANKAR NAGARAJAN
> >http://www.linkedin.com/in/nsk007
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Jan

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