BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Level 3
Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) study, conducted by HIMSS
Analytics and designed to understand cloud use, trends and
preferred vendors among healthcare organizations, was released
today. The 2016 Cloud Survey is a blinded, web-based quantitative
study that includes perspective from more than 100 IT decision
makers at medium to large-sized hospital systems and hospital
corporate offices across the United
States.
Key Findings:
- The top three cloud adoption motivators are cost savings, more
robust disaster recovery solutions and the need for scalable
platforms to support internal requirements.
- The likelihood of healthcare providers planning to adopt
cloud-based solutions for key use cases such as back office
solutions, business continuity and disaster recovery, archiving
data, health information exchange and HR or financial applications
increased 65 percent in the last two years.
- The most frequently cited cloud implementations address the
ability to host patient empowerment tools (73 percent), the need
for compute cycles capable of executing big data analytics (59
percent) and the need to satisfy business requirements like picture
archiving and communication system (PACS) storage (55 percent),
indicating providers are employing cloud solutions for personal
health information (PHI) and non-PHI applications, alike.
- The majority of respondents (77 percent) stated they involve
their network provider early in cloud strategy discussions.
- Cloud service providers Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google are all
recognized among healthcare providers as industry leaders.
Key Quotes:
Brian
Hoekelman, VP Business & Cloud Ecosystem Development for
Level 3
"Healthcare organizations are tapping into
cloud-based solutions to support the transformation to value-based
care, from big data analytics that can improve patient outcomes to
back office applications, email and record back-up. In our
conversations with customers, we also find that security is always
top of mind. The network plays a vital role in fulfilling that
need, which is why 2,500 healthcare organizations, including eight
of the nation's ten largest hospital systems and payer
organizations, trust Level 3 to deploy secure, scalable and high
performing communications infrastructure."
Kyle Mumley, Advisory
Solutions Group at HIMSS Analytics
"Many healthcare
organizations are using cloud solutions today, but this is only the
beginning. Previous HIMSS Analytics research shows that CapEx
spending is on the decline while OpEx spending is increasing; this
study supports those findings with 85 percent of participants
indicating plans to use the cloud in 2016. The study also shows
that the primary drivers for this shift are cost savings and
disaster recovery initiatives."
Additional Resources:
- EBOOK: The Cloud Evolution in Healthcare
- WEBINAR: State of the Cloud: 2016 Healthcare Study, Best
Practices and Critical Trends
- BLOG: Three Recurring Themes Heard Throughout HIMSS16
- VIDEO: Accelerating Business Through the Cloud
- INFOGRAPHIC: How You Connect to the Cloud Matters
For more information on Level 3's advanced network and service
offerings, visit www.level3.com.
About HIMSS Analytics
HIMSS Analytics is a global
healthcare advisor, providing guidance and market intelligence
solutions that move the industry forward with insight to enable
better health through the use of IT. As a trusted healthcare
research and advisory firm, the industry depends on HIMSS
Analytics' resources, benchmarks, predictive models and assessment
tools to improve decision making regarding their IT strategic
roadmap and market strategy. For more information, visit
www.himssanalytics.org/.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications,
Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500 company that provides local,
national and global communications services to enterprise,
government and carrier customers. Level 3's comprehensive portfolio
of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure
solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area
Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and
cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 500
markets in over 60 countries across a global services platform
anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected
by extensive undersea facilities. For more information, please
visit www.level3.com or get to know us on Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.
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Forward-Looking Statement
Some statements
made in this press release are forward-looking in nature and are
based on management's current expectations or beliefs. These
forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and
are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of
which are outside Level 3's control, which could cause actual
events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the
statements. Important factors that could prevent Level 3 from
achieving its stated goals include, but are not limited to, the
company's ability to: increase revenue from its services to realize
its targets for financial and operating performance; develop and
maintain effective business support systems; manage system and
network failures or disruptions; avert the breach of its network
and computer system security measures; develop new services that
meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; manage the
future expansion or adaptation of its network to remain
competitive; defend intellectual property and proprietary rights;
manage risks associated with continued uncertainty in the global
economy; manage continued or accelerated decreases in market
pricing for communications services; obtain capacity for its
network from other providers and interconnect its network with
other networks on favorable terms; successfully integrate future
acquisitions; effectively manage political, legal, regulatory,
foreign currency and other risks it is exposed to due to its
substantial international operations; mitigate its exposure to
contingent liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of
its debt obligations. Additional information concerning these and
other important factors can be found within Level 3's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this press
release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.
Level 3 is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any such
obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
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