If I were going to design the worst possible health care analytics department in a health plan, TPA, or benefits consultancy, this is what I would do. First, I would go out and buy all the hardware and software licenses I needed, not to mention the database administrators and IT personnel necessary to support it. Why use the cloud? That's just a trend, right? And what about data security? The cloud can’t be nearly as secure as my data warehouse, right?
