USMD Health System is moving to Amazons cloud. Health care organizations are becoming more comfortable with cloud technology. CIO Mike Yerrid says owning and operating his own infrastructure is just not efficient. The move to embrace the cloud came down to economics, he says. USMD is working with a provider named ClearDATA to help migrate workloads to the public cloud while remaining in compliance with health care privacy laws. All data in the cloud can be encrypted and Amazon can provide assurances to customers that their clouds host their data centers.”]