Epic Transformation on the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Healthcare organizations are facing increasing pressures to improve patient outcomes while decreasing the cost of care. Epic on Microsoft Azure helps organizations leverage key benefits of cloud – agility, scalability, innovation, and security, while keeping the focus on what matters the most, their patients.

UST helps clients to plan (ROI, TCO), design (Epic and 3rd party architecture), migrate (Epic DR, Non-PRD or PRD), and operationalize (SOPs, Optimization) their Epic EHR on Microsoft Azure.

In collaboration with Microsoft and Epic, UST helps clients to draw a comprehensive picture of Epic on Microsoft Azure:

Plan: Develop a business case for Epic on Microsoft Azure. Answer key questions such as:

• What is the TCO?
• How quickly can we achieve ROI?
• What are my costs in the next 3, 5, or 10-year horizon?
• Can all my 3rd party applications, including PACS, move to Microsoft Azure?

Design: Design the comprehensive architecture including Epic and Microsoft Azure Cloud Security. UST’s technology roadmap lays out phased approach for migrating Epic to Microsoft Azure that works for your organization. Further, rationalize your 3rd party application suite for cloud future or a hybrid approach.

Migrate: Move your Epic workloads to cloud covering all or a combination of Epic DR, Epic Non-PRD, Epic PRD, or Epic CRO.

Operationalize: Prepare your business and IT teams for the future. Establish key technical and operational metrics and SOPs.

Customer benefits

• Develop a comprehensive and holistic understanding on what Epic on Microsoft Azure entails, key business drivers, and operational consideration.
• Achieve faster time to value by leveraging a combination of Microsoft funding programs and UST’s investments.
• Achieve faster time to maturity – UST brings in the technological, business, and other tribal knowledge by guarantying outcomes.
• Cloud economics and financial planning.

Solution features

• Flexible service models
• Advisory
• Migration
• Managed Services (Epic Infra-as-a-service)

About UST UST offers health tech solutions that enhance trust, connectivity, personalization, and efficiency for healthcare and life sciences enterprises. Our human-centered approach creates a more caring and connected future at physical and digital health convergence. Our deep domain experts ensure clients swiftly adapt to evolving tech and regulatory landscapes so they can focus on their core objective of promoting better health and care. Discover our healthcare and life sciences work at ust.health (https://www.ust.com/en/industries/healthcare).