VIDEO: More and more hospitals are using the cloud for medical image storage

Radiology has been one of the specialities leading the adoption of cloud storage and cloud computing technology in healthcare. This has largely been driven by the very rapid growth in the number of digital images that need to be stored, and the fact than many health systems are no longer dumping old images and medical records like they used to because they are now valuable in the new age of big data. 

This trend was very pronounced at recent Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meetings and at the massive 2023 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual health IT meeting. To learn more about this trend and what is driving it, Health Imaging spoke with Esteban Rubens, Oracle's healthcare field chief technology officer for healthcare, during HIMSS. 

"There is so much data and it is growing so quickly, especially with the addition of things like digital pathology, so people are looking for ways to try and control the growth that they have on-premises. A lot of our customers tell us they don't want to be in the data center business anymore. They may want to keep somethings, but they do not want to continue growing endlessly," he explained.