Healthcare IT News August 14, 2023
Microsoft says its Azure Large Instances technology is helping the health system better manage its electronic health records, enabling as many as 50 million database accesses per second.
Microsoft this past week announced a new cloud-based hosting service for Epic clients, with Mount Sinai Health System one of the first to make use of it.
WHY IT MATTERS
Microsoft says Azure Large Instances is designed with the scale of large Epic electronic health record databases in mind, beyond the previous limits of shared public cloud infrastructure. It is capable of handling up to 50 million database accesses per second, for instance.
Mount Sinai, a longtime Microsoft client, continues to migrate many of its EHR workloads to Azure – and now has...