Ways Cloud Computing is shaping the future of the healthcare sector

The digital evolution in the healthcare industry is transforming through the cloud. Digitally transformed healthcare organizations are modernizing their operations that will lead to a better future

- Karunya Sampath

In general, wars are known to accelerate technological advancements across sectors. New tools are created and new experiments are done with a sense of urgency in a widespread manner for military purposes and later they evolve into standards and tools applicable for the needs of the general public.

War on COVID, in a way, created a similar ripple effect worldwide, catapulted several sectors, especially healthcare, years into the future, and led to the faster adoption of digital technologies. It is no secret that the cloud and the scale it operates on are the core foundational elements that make the delivery of these digital technologies feasible.

In short, Cloud offers Scale & Agility packed together which, otherwise, are opposing forces in nature. Different deployment models of cloud (Public, Private and Hybrid / Multi-Cloud) and the variety of service offerings they come up with (i.e, Cloud-based Analytics / AI / ML, Cloud-native applications, cloud storage, streaming, virtual desktops, automatic scaling) cater to the needs of creative applications of software for problem-solving and pave the way for advancing healthcare.

▾ Faster responses to future crises

The ability to spin up and run applications in an elastic manner, or apply machine learning & analytical algorithms on volumes of data in a scalable way enables quicker response for any future pandemics. We’ve witnessed it during the initial days of the recent pandemic.