Industry players say Medable’s signing on with Rackspace to support the California company’s platform for developing medical applications is just one deal in the emerging health care market for providers of managed cloud.
“Our customers come to us so they can meet compliance requirements — so we must have the necessary infrastructure, physical security and safeguards in place for our offering,” Medable Chief Technical Officer Tim Smith said in a news release announcing the partnership. “We rely very heavily on Rackspace for this, and we are impressed with their products and services.”
Dr. Michelle Longmire, a Stanford physician who co-founded and is CEO of the Palo Alto, California-based company, said outsourcing cloud storage and security enabled two key value points. By offloading compliance with regulations such as with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), developers could get their products to market significantly faster. And once the application is live, Rackspace provides security for vulnerable patient data. For the full article click here
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