The IT backbone of one of the largest Catholic health systems in the USA, Mercy Technology Services, has launched its latest healthcare cloud service that is designed to meet the requirements of today’s highly regulated health IT market.
IT executives at the company said that the cloud hosting features flexibility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness which makes it a preferable alternative to infrastructure-heavy data centers.
Mercy Enterprise Infrastructure Vice President Scott Richert said, “Healthcare’s tech leaders want to migrate to get the cloud’s benefits without the cloud’s risks, but a good solution has been hard to find. This is the same equipment I’d buy for my enterprise data centers, with the same high service standard we hold for ourselves. Now there’s a way to share enterprise-class cloud hosting with our healthcare community.”
According to a reliable news source, Mercy’s healthcare cloud is backed by Mercy Technology Services’ data centers that are SOC2-compliant, HIPAA-compliant, and SSAE 16-compliant. This is where Mercy’s 1,200 healthcare applications are stored. This also includes data from the Epic EHR for Mercy and its commercial customers.
Mercy Technology Services said that it would provide the cloud infrastructure for the hosting of mission-critical apps such as the EHR and imaging, along with business-essential systems like file shares, email or any other healthcare documentation workload.
Mercy is a subsidiary of the VMware Cloud Provider Program. The cloud service of Mercy Technology Services runs on a virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures named VMware vSphere.
By utilizing a common cloud infrastructure, Mercy’s customers can easily move workloads between Mercy Technology Services’ cloud and their private data centers. Officials at the company said that the new healthcare cloud services will be available from late spring 2018. Mercy Technology Services said that the new system will supplement Mercy’s portfolio of IT systems.
