Level 3: More Health-Care Providers Are Adopting Cloud

A Level 3 Communications survey provides further evidence that health-care providers increasingly are turning to the cloud for cost savings, disaster recovery and scalable platforms to support their internal needs. The 2016 Cloud Survey, conducted by HIMSS Analytics, includes responses from more than 100 IT decision makers at medium-to large hospital systems and their corporate offices across the United States. The likelihood of health-care providers planning to adopt cloud-based services for key use cases – such as back-office services, business continuity and disaster recovery, archiving data, health-information exchange and HR or financial applications – increased 65 percent in the last two years, according to the survey.