Healthcare Innovation August 11, 2023
New York-based health system is migrating many of its workloads to Azure and now has the largest production instance of Epic running on Azure in the world
Mount Sinai Health System in New York is among the first health systems taking advantage of Microsoft Azure Large Instances, a solution designed to achieve the scale needed to run the large Epic electronic health record database — up to 50 million database accesses per second.
Microsoft said Azure Large Instances leverages dedicated resources, which allows Mount Sinai and other Epic clients to scale beyond the previous limits of shared public cloud infrastructure solutions.
On its website, Microsoft explains Azure Large Instances this way: “Some workloads in the enterprise consist of technologies that...