How to Deploy, Manage Healthcare Multicloud Environments

Healthcare organizations are experiencing a digital transformation and introducing new digital tools into their health IT infrastructure at a rapid pace. In order to manage the tools that are driving digital transformation, organizations need to understand the complexities of the healthcare multicloud approach to further progress. Healthcare is a heavily regulated industry and organizations are charged with making sure their applications are secured and deployed in the correct cloud environment. Those environments can get complex when different applications have different security requirements, according to Scalr CEO Sebastian Stadil. “The first thing I’ve served under a multicloud front specific to healthcare is applications,” he said. “Individual applications are always on a single cloud, but the organization as a whole is multicloud. That’s a distinction that I don’t think is very well known among healthcare professionals that are new in their multicloud journey. It’s something they realize as they go through it.” Organizations have an internal application that does some reporting. That application is not going to live on both AWS and DMI; it’s going to live on one or the other. Organizations will have applications hosted on several different cloud service providers.