The cloud should be secondary

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IBM puts its health IT solution in the cloud

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Ken_z 5th Aug 2010

Clouds are great, but on-site information & images are better.

Couds assume that you are up and working 100% of the time. I can see some tort actions in the future when the cloud goes down and patients (especially in hospitals) suffer.

Considering that there was a recent article about legal work (especially at the entry level lawyer level) being outsourced to India I'm sure a lot of trial lawyers and defense lawyers will be looking at cloud failures very closely.

And, considering just how cheap basic computers and hard drives are, there is going to be no excuse for a patient to be disadvantaged because of any cloud.