HealthTech September 5, 2025
As cloud costs rise, healthcare IT leaders rethink what truly belongs off-prem, such as resource-heavy workloads and sensitive patient data.
To better position themselves to invest in artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare IT leaders are under pressure to curb cloud spending. That’s why many organizations are re-evaluating their “cloud first” strategies and moving some workloads from the public cloud back on-premises, which can be considered a “cloud smart” approach. It’s a trend known as cloud repatriation, and it’s meant to reallocate the 21% of cloud infrastructure spending that is typically wasted on underused resources.
However, repatriation requires strategic planning. Healthcare IT teams must select which workloads should reside in the data center and which ones should remain in the cloud, according...







