Virtustream Healthcare Cloud and xStreamCare Services Optimize the Management and Agility of AdventHealth's New Integrated Electronic Health Records (EHR) Platform.
Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud company and a
The multi-year agreement with Virtustream delivers a managed cloud platform, purpose-built to host business-critical workloads like modern EHR applications. The solution provides a flexible and highly secure cloud platform that aligns to AdventHealth's long-term strategy to leverage the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud to increase IT business agility while improving application availability and end-user experience. The solution is metered through a unique cloud consumption model to deliver billing that is based on actual usage.
AdventHealth is using Virtustream's xStreamCare managed services to drive operational efficiencies, optimize workloads and free internal IT team members to focus on strategic and innovative projects that support caregivers and empower patients. Virtustream is also providing end-to-end managed services and hosting for AdventHealth's deployment of Epic Hyperspace by leveraging
With more than 80,000 team members across hundreds of healthcare facilities, home health agencies and hospice centers, AdventHealth provides individualized, holistic care in diverse communities in nearly a dozen states. The health system is implementing the Epic EHR platform at 37 hospitals and hundreds of care-related locations. Virtustream's cloud solutions cover more than 50 healthcare facilities and hospitals today and can seamlessly scale to accommodate AdventHealth's plans.
'Our technology strategy at AdventHealth directly supports our health systems' focus on providing whole-person, consumer-centric care,' said,
Successful Migration to the Cloud Enhances IT Agility and Delivers New Levels of Efficiencies
Soon to be one of AdventHealth's most critical applications supporting the entire health system, its new unified EHR implementation will provide significant benefits to the organization, including:
enhanced capabilities and agility to directly support patient care;
improved cloud platform to drive operational improvements, including easier expansion of virtual machines (VMs) based on demand;
simplified process for the EHR application's quarterly update cycles;
built-in enterprise-class security and compliance features; and
faster and more advanced disaster recovery capabilities.
According to recent industry research, the healthcare cloud computing market is expected to realize double-digit annual growth in the years ahead, with one firm estimating the market will surpass
'With its move to Virtustream, AdventHealth is putting its patients and clinicians first,' says
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