As the healthcare industry continues to move toward cloud-based services and technology, providers are exploring migrations of their electronic health record applications to public cloud environments, where advantages include lower costs, improved flexibility and integration with new technologies.
Healthcare organizations using the EHR platform Epic can consider migrating to Azure, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, for everything from disaster recovery (DR) to a more complete hosting of their Epic production environments.
Given the importance of EHRs to healthcare providers’ overall operational capabilities, drawing on the planning expertise of a partner is critical, says Sam Baker, a business development manager for CDW focusing on Microsoft technologies in healthcare.
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Baker notes that cloud deployment facilitates innovation and data interoperability by placing an EHR and its related data in proximity to advanced cloud-native tools such as Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Fabric.
This proximity accelerates the exploration, deployment and scaling of innovative approaches to solution development.
Baker says that this helps clients to foster a culture of innovation and enable the exploration of more evolved IT practices.
“Reliability, scalability, automation, cost optimization, security and access to new technology are among the primary benefits healthcare organizations will see by moving Epic to Azure,” he explains. “They can effectively scale in a financially optimized way. The infrastructure is available and waiting for them in an Azure data center.”
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