Hospitals retrain data center employees amid shift to the cloud

Tufts hired temporary workers and brought in consultants to fill data center positions so that full-time employees had time to be trained. “You have to support your team for them to succeed,” said Dr. Shafiq Rab, chief digital and information officer at Tufts Medicine.

Employees who completed training and earned certifications were placed in the health system’s cloud center of excellence. About 35 people work in the center, roughly 60%…