NHS okays hospitals and doctors storing patient data on public cloud servers

NHS Digital has issued guidance to the independent authorities and businesses that make up the UK"s National Health Service, setting out the case for storing extremely sensitive patient data on public cloud servers. The short version is: you can"t afford to hire top-notch IT talent, but Amazon and Google can. If you keep storing data locally, it will be breached, compromised by ransomware, etc. But the big cloud services are already figuring out compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, so if you can hire someone who knows how to use these services (a much more common skill than knowing how to create one from scratch), you will be better protected and in compliance with privacy rules.