SECURITY THREATS AND BREACHES have increased throughout the years not only within the health care industry , but in all sectors worldwide . As a means to combat this , health care organizations have begun to adopt cloud-based services to source all of their medical records and defend their internal servers .

The accelerating migration to could computing represents a change for the health care industry and in this month ’ s feature How Cloud Computing is Changing the Health Care IT Industry , we discuss these changes and how they will affect the industry moving forward .

Similarly , big data is invaluable in its ability to offer managers a high level of view of the day-to-day operations of their hospital . Nowhere is data expanding at such a rapid rate than in the field of medicine . We share the four ways in which big data can improve your hospital operations to empower your practice .

We wrap up the November issue of Healthcare Global by traveling to Brazil and featuring the richest health care professionals making an impact on the industry .

We hope you enjoy this issue and wish you the best of health !

Editor stephanie . ocano @ wdmgroup . com

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