“ We want to make sure that the technology solutions really match up to the business needs and the business drivers ”
DR TIM CALAHAN , CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER , MICHIGAN MEDICINE
Epic in the cloud when he was working at EMC was at the time controversial .
“ Epic at the time were actually telling their customers they had to stay on-prem ,” Calahan says . “ So we were able to provide some very innovative solutions in terms of how to move Epic out of the data centre . As part of that journey we have really shifted the market in opening their eyes to the fact that organisations didn ’ t have to maintain these internal data centres and that they could move things safely to the cloud .
“ What brought me to the role here is Michigan Medicine has a strong desire to modernise their infrastructure , modernise how they do business and leverage cloud much more heavily and distinctly than they do today . Here at Michigan Medicine , they want to move everything to the cloud , and because of that desire and the alignment to that mission , I readily accepted the role and the position . We ’ ve been hard at work in mapping out what that would look like here for Michigan Medicine , and we ’ re just now beginning to start that journey ourselves in moving workloads to the cloud .”
As Calahan describes , to be able to shift the mindset of an entire industry has been a particular achievement .
“ When we started hosting Epic in the cloud , we realised it would be disruptive , but we also realised that this could be very
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