Credit: Original article published here.Amidst the uncertainty of the pandemic, the interest in cloud engineering in healthcare sparked. According to Research and Markets, in 2021, the global healthcare cloud computing market reached $28.36bn, and by 2026, the market value is expected to double.  Is it a sustainable long-term trend in medical software development services? We explore the matter below. Why the interest? Deploying medical software systems in the cloud offers healthcare providers a range of unbeatable benefits. While this has been in the air for a long time, the pandemic made these benefits shine bright, fueling the adoption of cloud technologies. Workload relief  Even before the pandemic, the immense workload was a pain point for clinicians. But, curiously, it’s not their professional duties that wear them out. Apart from regular clinical workflows, they have to take up some extra tasks unrelated to their medical field, such as paperwork, charting, etc. According to Medscape’s 2022 Physician Burnout and Depression Report, these bureaucratic tasks are the top cause of burnout, with 60% of the interviewed highlighting the issue. Above all those extra tasks, clinicians allocate time to protect their patients’ personal health information (PHI). Cloud solutions can be helpful here as they