MICHIGAN MEDICINE innovative to our healthcare customers . And interestingly , it was also what our customers were asking for . In my management consulting days , my customers were highly annoyed by not being able to move Epic to the cloud or not being able to move their workloads to the cloud . They were begging for a path to execute and move things out of their internal data centres and into the cloud , because they realised some of the value that that could bring .
“ As we started down that journey we were told by numerous people it wouldn ’ t work and that we wouldn ’ t be able to do it – including by Epic themselves . But fastforward to now and we ’ ve moved the industry . Now Epic fully embraces running Epic in the public cloud . We have reference architecture in Azure , in AWS and in GCP in terms of how to run that application in the cloud , and we now have general acceptance by the industry at large .”
Epic in the cloud : The key reasons From two decades ago when healthcare records were delivered with paper and pen , the advent of electronic health records – driven by major players Epic and Cerner – has changed the landscape . Now , with these records moving to the cloud , Calahan explains how the industry is at a pivotal point . healthcare-digital . com 53