In the last 5 years, the Epic community has seen a meteoric rise in health systems and insurance companies choosing to host Epic with third-party hosting providers, specifically on public cloud platforms. Now that there are countless success stories and Epic-published reference architectures, health systems and insurance companies are having a hard time finding reasons why they would not choose to host Epic on a public cloud platform. Here are the top 5 drivers.
The List
- Offload data center and hardware maintenance responsibilities
The core mission of a health system is to provide the best possible patient care to their community. Running a data center is not supportive of that mission. By migrating Epic to public cloud, health systems are offloading data center maintenance and hardware lifecycle responsibilities so they can focus on patient-centric initiatives that support healthcare’s core mission.
- Access to next generation technology
Public cloud platforms are constantly innovating and creating new tools to enable customers with feature sets that are not available in a legacy, data center architecture. By migrating Epic to public cloud, patient data lives next to cloud-native Data & AI services for easier extraction, transformation and visibility of patient data creating more actionable clinical, financial, and operational insights.
- Granular observability and monitoring
Granular monitoring, logical grouping through subscriptions & resource groups, and predictive analytics allow for more effective cost control down to the resource level.
- Agility and flexibility
On-demand resource availability allows for flexible deployments to meet changing business needs.
- Improved security and compliance
Next-generation network architectures allow for micro-segmentation to improve security, while cloud-native policy automation ensures you stay compliant even as regulations change.
Conclusion
What is stopping your organization from moving your most important application to the public cloud? The benefits are endless and many of your peers have the success stories to show for it. For a successful planning, migration, and management, be sure to work with a trusted, experienced Epic on public cloud partner who has previously helped health systems realize the journey.
