HLTH 2022, Hackensack Meridian Health shared its plans to move its Epic workloads to Google Cloud, with the aim to drive greater innovation, efficiencies, and security. Google Cloud’s agreement with Epic will give healthcare organizations more choices for their cloud environments.
Healthcare leaders, like Hackensack Meridian Health, have been able to accelerate their digital transformations by moving to the cloud, and using technology like analytics and AI, with the ultimate goal to improve patient outcomes. In addition, healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry targeted by cyber criminals and threat actors, making it important to work with a trusted cloud partner.
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“Our mission to innovate requires accessible, cutting edge technology,” said Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, and chief executive officer for Hackensack Meridian Health. “With our Epic EHR on Google Cloud, we’ll be able to innovate faster, and benefit from a more efficient and secure cloud environment.”
“We expect running Epic on Google Cloud will be simpler for our IT and developers, and will allow them to focus more on uncovering creative ways to improve patient care,” said Kash Patel, EVP and chief digital information officer for Hackensack Meridian Health. “Having everything with Google Cloud will provide a huge opportunity for discoveries. For example, data from our AI Avatar for natural language processing will already be in Google Cloud, ready for us to ask questions. This will speed up our work and make information more accessible.”
From early days, Google sought to improve the lives of as many people as possible, and the pandemic gave a greater urgency to its work to help billions of people live healthier lives. For Google Cloud, this means helping healthcare and life sciences organizations accelerate the digital transformations that put people at the center, by using its infrastructure, security, and our intelligent data platform.
“Hackensack Meridian Health is leading on two of the big transformations underway across this industry: building a secure foundation for digital infrastructure, and putting data and AI to work for the patient,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “This agreement with Epic will allow us to optimize it to run on Google Cloud, and we look forward to providing healthcare organizations more choice as they work to deliver better outcomes for their patients.”