Where do we store your MedCommons stuff? Where are the MedCommons computers?

 

When we launch our public retail service (soon),  our intention is that PHR data will be backed up on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). If you are a licensee, you can use your own servers and SANs in your own data centers, or have MedCommons take care of the hosting for you. We've been hosting MedCommons at a number of commercial facilities for a while, and have just added another, interesting, choice.

 

 

    * We can deploy a MedCommons instance for a new customer in under five minutes.

    * We can add cpu and storage capacity on demand.

    * We save Internet bandwidth charges by colocating servers and storage

 

And it's pretty inexpensive. The fact that there's no bandwidth costs between our gateways and long term storage servers will be a huge cost savings.

 

We can setup a  small MedCommons businesses in near real time. Tailor the website, set up a domain name, and off we go.

 

 

- bill