Illinois-based medical clinic adopts NaviSite's cloud services

On Tuesday, NaviSite, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting and various managed IT services, announced it will provide a fully managed, supported and hosted cloud solution to the Illinois-based medical practice, the Springfield Clinic.

The Springfield Clinic currently has more than 300 board-certified providers in various medical fields. With NaviSite's cloud services in place, the technology company will support and manage the clinic's Oracle PeopleSoft solution, which currently conducts human resources, payroll and financial applications.

"NaviSite has been a trusted partner for years, providing exceptional support and upgrade services as part of its Managed Application Services offering," said Jim Hewitt, CIO of the Springfield Clinic. "When we considered this latest PeopleSoft upgrade, we recognized that moving these applications to NaviSite’s cloud would yield significant cost savings and allow us to maximize our PeopleSoft investment. NaviSite’s cloud-enabled Managed Application Services provide built-in security and control, disaster recovery, usage-based pricing, service level guarantees and unlimited functional and technical support that includes upgrades, allowing us to focus on enhancing our healthcare services rather than running applications."

The Springfield Clinic will leverage all of NaviSite's Cloud Managed Application Services capabilities, including the NaviCloud-Enabled Infrastructure, on-boarding services, application management services, full lifecycle management, service level guarantees and built-in disaster recovery and business continuity, in order to deliver the best service to its organization.

The Springfield Clinic's adoption of NaviSite's offerings falls in line with a recent IDC report that cited the healthcare industry as a major player in the cloud market during the next several years. In fact, the global market intelligence firm estimated cloud adoption in the healthcare industry will experience a compound annual growth rate of nearly 23 percent by 2014.