New Article on Cloud Computing and CDS in OpenHealthNews

Noam Arzt, president of HLN, has published a new article, “Why Cloud-Based Public Health Solutions are a Good Option for Clinical Decision Support” in OpenHealthNews. Cloud computing is one of the most powerful technology deployment strategies in use today. In this article Dr. Arzt examines some of the key reasons to host public health clinical decision support (CDS) solutions in the cloud. The article goes on to explain the difference between cloud computing and traditional computing. It then goes on to define Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations, or CDSi, and HLN’s Open Source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) and related tools and utilities. Finally, the article concludes with a discussion of how externally hosted services may provide some distinct advantages for organizations that deploy CDS tools such as these.