Seventy-seven percent of healthcare organizations anticipate moving their IT systems to a public cloud within the next year, based on HyTrust research, according to Healthcare IT News.
The survey included 500 executives from various industries, including the healthcare industry.
Here are five takeaways:
1. The report found 55 percent of the organizations have already moved Tier 1 applications (defined as holding sensitive data) to the cloud.
2. Of the organizations, 65 percent reported a data breach as the greatest barrier to migrating data to the cloud.
3. Fifty-five percent reported "automation and orchestration" as the next greatest hindrance to cloud migration.
4. About 40 percent of organizations expect more breaches in 2016.
5. Absence of vendors will prove the greatest obstacle to cloud adoption, according to 68 percent of organizations.
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