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What You Should Know:
- Microsoft announced that Epic clients, starting with Mount Sinai Health System can use Microsoft Azure Large Instances to run the large Epic electronic health record (EHR) database at up to 50 million database accesses per second.
- Through close collaboration with Accenture, Mount Sinai continues to migrate many of its workloads to Azure and now has the largest production instance of Epic running on Azure in the world.
Cloud-First Computing Healthcare Model
As healthcare organizations manage an increasingly complex care landscape and challenging economic conditions, there is a growing desire to reduce the complexities of infrastructure management and control costs with a secure, scalable and agile public cloud solution. Azure offers opportunities for agility, cost management and risk reductions by offloading the data center and hardware management to Microsoft. With faster time to value from current investments in the cloud and opportunities to innovate quickly, organizations can rethink how they utilize data and AI and take a digital health platform approach.