Prescription for cloud transformation

How healthcare providers can use the cloud to enable business and patient outcomes

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Embracing cloud technologies is essential for success in today’s patient-centric, outcome-driven healthcare environment. Healthcare modernization demands an IT foundation that delivers and amplifies core advantages available from cloud platforms but are difficult to attain with traditional IT infrastructure: speed, efficiency, connectivity, and security. Embracing the benefits of cloud computing can enable providers to unlock new capabilities for innovation, data insights, and operational agility and deliver improved outcomes and experiences for patients.

In recent years, healthcare providers have increased cloud adoption, and some leading health systems are even pioneering work with cloud platforms. However, there is immense opportunity for providers to achieve more transformative results from cloud technologies. Adoption rates remain low in doctor’s offices (37 percent) and dental practices (23 percent). And most hospitals, where 90 percent use cloud infrastructure, have yet to realize the full value of cloud usage beyond simple application hosting.

This paper will help healthcare provider chief executive officers, chief financial officers, and chief information officers gain a big picture view of the value of cloud technologies as the backbone of operations and care delivery. It explains how moving to the cloud allows providers to reimagine how clinical, patient care, business, technology, and operations teams integrate to fundamentally enhance service delivery, improve patient outcomes, and introduce unprecedented opportunities for innovation. It also distills the main challenges of moving healthcare operations to the cloud and shares insights and advice on how to start to overcome them.

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