“Top 10 list rejects cloud for clinical data
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By George Miller |
The debate continues over whether cloud platforms can secure highly sensitive clinical trial data and health records. But eWeek makes no bones about its position in a top 10 list of why it’s a bad idea to store such records up there.
The 11-slide presentation encapsulates both well-known and less-well-known arguments for data storage via local services rather than an Internet-based, on-demand system. Among them: the highly sensitive nature of the data makes it a hacker target from the get-go.
Trust is a factor that runs throughout the list: trust in the cloud service provider that it can and will restrict access to the barest minimum, that it truly de-personalizes data, and even that it will still be in existence tomorrow.
A disclosure statement concerning source material explains the anti-cloud bias. But the list remains a useful one.
- here’s the slide show
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Source: FierceBiotech IT [editors@fiercebiotechit.com] 8.23.10
