Virtualization and the Cloud in the Health Care Industry

The health care industry has two pressing but fundamentally opposing needs from its information systems. It need to maintain a high degree of privacy because of the sensitivity of the patient data it handles. But it also needs universal speedy access from a variety of platforms to meet the need for data in emergency situations.

This interview shows how the Rhode Island provider, CharterCARE Health Partners has combined the cloud and VDI to meet these needs. VDI (or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is a technique of hosting websites on a cloud based system while enabling access and maintenance from desktops, tablets, smartphones and the like.

It's a technique that has spread beyond the health care industry, because the needs for strong security and easy multi-platform access - a difficult combination - is widespread..