Healthcare organizations across the country share common goals: to provide better patient care and retain their valuable workforces. To meet this mission, they’ll need to transform their infrastructure and processes to improve data access, collaboration and operational support while building for the future.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need to rapidly scale services in the dynamic healthcare environment. To support organizational agility, such as the ability to spin up or down on-demand resources, many organizations have turned to the cloud. Healthcare IT leaders value the cloud’s flexibility, scalable resources and pay-as-you-go models.
But cloud migration is not without its challenges: managing the shift from a capital expenditure to an operational expenditure model, the complexities of migrating legacy applications and the need to upskill workers in support of a cloud environment. There’s a common misconception that moving to the cloud will result in a loss of control over data and introduce security risks. Organizations may also think that cloud services will be prohibitively expensive, or, conversely, that they will always be cheaper than on-premises solutions.
Health systems don’t need to face these hurdles alone. Though a cloud migration can involve many moving parts, it doesn’t have to be unwieldy, and healthcare IT leaders can quell concerns by looking at the experiences of their industry peers.
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