Becker's Healthcare August 17, 2023
New York City-based Mount Sinai, who has one of the largest production instances of Epic running on Microsoft’s cloud, says the move has been able to reduce upfront infrastructure costs and accelerate the health system’s integration of AI.
“We’ve managed to avoid significant investments required to maintain the facilities aspects of our data centers, as well as hardware refreshes of core infrastructure,” Kristin Myers, executive vice president, chief digital and information officer, and dean for digital and information technology at Mount Sinai, told Becker’s. “This gives us the flexibility to scale up or down at a lower cost and redirect capital dollars to best serve the organization.”
The health system began transitioning its Epic EHR system to Microsoft Azure...