The following hospitals and health systems have moved their electronic health record systems or digital infrastructures to the cloud, or announced plans to do so, in 2022:
- Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has partnered with Google Cloud on data-powered projects to improve health equity, patient flow and value-based care across the health system. Under the partnership, Hartford will leverage Google Cloud's healthcare Data Engine, artificial intelligence and machine learning to make its healthcare data more accessible and actionable.
- Hackensack Meridian Health is poised to be the first health system to migrate its Epic EHR system to Google Cloud.
- Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health; Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health; Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health; and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic are working with Google Cloud on data-powered projects to improve health equity, patient flow and value-based care. The healthcare data engine accelerators aim to better collect and analyze social determinants of health data, provide patient flow metrics to reduce bottlenecks, and merge claims and clinical information to identify population health indicators.
- York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to replace its legacy on-premises business systems. The health system will integrate its finance, supply chain and human resources processes to the cloud in order to move them into an integrated suite.
- Methodist Hospitals, which has two acute care facilities in Gary and Merrillville, Ind., selected Infor as its preferred cloud provider. The health system will create a clinically connected healthcare platform in Infor's cloud that will help it automate business processes such as supply chain, human resources and financial functions in a standardized way across the system.
- University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has selected medical imaging IT company Sectra's cloud-based service to provide imaging throughout the system's six hospitals and nine urgent care centers.
- Coral Gables, Fla.-based health system Baptist Health South Florida has selected Innovaccer Health Cloud to provide population health analytics, provider engagement and care management for the health system.
- Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare selected digital health company Innovaccer as its population health management solution. Innovaccer's cloud will unify patient data so the health system can identify opportunities to deliver more timely and relevant care.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs will move its Oracle Cerner EHR system to a cloud data center. Mike Sicilia, Oracle executive vice president, said the company intended to complete the migration of the EHR system to the cloud within the next six to nine months. Mr. Sicilia said the move would improve the system's performance.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health selected Google as its preferred cloud provider. The health system hopes the new partnership will expand its digital and artificial intelligence capabilities.
- Boston-based Tufts Medicine selected Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider. The health system moved its entire digital ecosystem, including its Epic EHR infrastructure, to Amazon Web Services' cloud.
- Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health tapped industry cloud company Infor to transition its supply chain and financial applications to Amazon Web Services.
- New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System is transitioning its Epic EHR to Microsoft Azure and using its cloud service for much of the health system's operations.
- Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health tapped Innovaccer, a health cloud company, as its strategic cloud provider and plans to transform its EHR data into unified patient records.
- Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger tapped Amazon as its strategic cloud provider and plans to transition its entire digital portfolio of more than 400 applications and numerous workflows to Amazon Web Services. The transition is one of the largest EHR migrations to Amazon's cloud platform to date.
- Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and St. Louis-based Mercy Health adopted Adobe's Experience Cloud for Healthcare.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic on Jan. 27 selected Oracle's cloud and analytics suite to power its business processes. Mayo Clinic will use Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and human resources.