Making the jump to the cloud is simply beneficial. Whether for business or personal use, apps that run on the cloud make the access of data more efficient, and in a world where multiple computing devices are the norm, it makes sense that the information you require is accessible at all times. In the medical community it’s even truer, with cloud based reference services making the important steps toward patient diagnosis dramatically shorter.
This is what’s driving CloudCare, a provider of cloud-based electronic health records (EFR), billing practices and practice management, to report record numbers, recently reaching an impressive milestone: 13 consecutive financial quarters of revenue growth.
CloudCare’s chairman and CEO Albert Santalo says that experience shows “the growing trend of medical groups switching out legacy client-server or 1990s era Web-based practice management and electronic health record systems for our more modern, flexible applications and services that will better navigate the changing healthcare environment.”
The numbers don’t lie. With over 100 new clients reported in this first quarter ending March 29, 2013, prospects look good for the company dedicated to keeping the medical community up to date with modern technology. And why not? The medical community has a long history of innovation when it comes to introducing new practical tech to the world. It only follows that reference and management solutions should also be up to the standards that the rest of the world seems to be wildly embracing.
The reason for the slow adoption of EMR technology is, as you would expect, financial in nature. Seventy percent of healthcare providers use some sort of the technology, but according to Forbes, not only is it expensive, but some providers simply don't understand the benefit of full integration.
In an attempt to keep the ball rolling, CloudCare announced in March that it will be expanding its real-life presence by opening its second operational site in Boston’s Innovation District. Expecting this Boston office to grow and further establish the brand of CloudCare, Santalo added, “We are confident that the Boston office will be a major recruiting tool.”
March was a time of celebration for CloudCare, but the future was never forgotten. Continuing to take developmental steps toward faster adoption of its service, the newest version of CloudCare’s EFR was debuted at the HIMSS Conference.
Edited by
Alisen Downey
