The cloud is changing the way businesses and industries operate, creating efficiencies and, more importantly, opening up new paths of innovation. In no other industry is the cloud’s potential more evident than in healthcare, says Jean-Pierre Horne, Head of Healthcare at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in South Africa.

Based on the findings of the AWS and IT Web Cloud Survey, it’s clear that the South African healthcare industry agrees. Healthcare respondents said they were already using the cloud or planning to move to it in the six to 12 month period. Key drivers identified included making storage accessible from anywhere, duplicating hard drives, making services available to the public, and achieving easily accessible information across departments and staff components.