Healthcare Data Storage and Other Innovations Head to the Cloud

If you’ve visited a doctor lately, you may have experienced how your healthcare data — records, scans, prescriptions — is increasingly accessible wherever you interact with a healthcare provider. But you don’t control your own healthcare data storage. Enter cloud-based solutions. Although still immature, cloud-based healthcare data storage is an emerging solution with potential to become a market disruptor, according to Gartner Emergence Cycle research. Download eBook: 3 Steps for a Winning Product Strategy This and other emerging cloud-based technologies are exactly what adventurous technology product leaders are looking for: opportunities to gain competitive advantage by identifying key innovations early. Gartner maps them on its Emergence Cycle for Cloud-Based Technologies. Cloud-based healthcare data storage Electronic health-related records increasingly exist everywhere that patients and customers interact, from doctors’ offices to hospitals and pharmacies and even wearable devices. But individuals don’t own and control the single source of truth for their own healthcare data. That control currently lies with the providers that enter the data — device manufacturers, hospitals, medical practices and pharmacies, which store data for their own exclusive purposes. Cloud-based solutions for healthcare data storage would allow individuals to own and control the single source of truth for their health