Multicloud vs. Hybrid Cloud: What’s Right for Your Healthcare Organization

After years of tentative adoption, the cloud is finally starting to take off in healthcare. According to Technavio, the healthcare cloud computing market is set to grow at a rate of 22 percent through 2022, as organizations continue to move data — including sensitive information — to the cloud. But as acronyms like SaaS, IaaS and PaaS pile up, it can be difficult to know what cloud solution makes the most sense for a healthcare organization’s particular infrastructure and needs — especially with protected health information (PHI) in the mix.

Two popular options for healthcare organizations are multicloud and hybrid cloud, but the terms are sure to breed confusion for those not intimately familiar with cloud architectures. Here, we lay out the differences and strengths of each.