Why Medical Imaging Is Pushing Clinical IT to the Cloud

Medical imaging certainly has enough clout to push healthcare to the cloud. Garriott notes that imaging typically accounts for more than 80 percent of an organization's total volume of clinical content. As imaging becomes more sophisticated, that number will only increase. A traditional chest X-ray -- the most-ordered radiology exam -- is a single 15 megabyte image, about the size of a few JPG images. Breast tomosynthesis, a type of 3D mammography, creates files that are about 300MB.