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Best practices for healthcare data migration to the cloud
EHRs and storage systems will likely have greater involvement in data migration efforts to the cloud, so healthcare organizations should prepare with careful planning.
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Educating healthcare executives about data analytics, and seeing that healthcare organizations invest in data, is critical, according to a panel of experts.
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