Accenture Supports Largest Migration of Electronic Medical Record System to Microsoft Azure
- Mount Sinai's migration to the cloud improves care coordination and collaboration, achieves substantial cost savings, enhances security measures, and creates a foundation for AI and other advanced technologies.
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Effort marks new milestone in Mount Sinai Health System’s transformation journey to the cloud
Working in collaboration with Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft, one of New York City’s largest academic medical systems kicked off its transformation journey to the cloud last year to enable innovation at a faster pace and ultimately improve healthcare access, experiences and outcomes. Accenture is leading the development and implementation of the strategic transformation, which also includes the migration of Mount Sinai’s clinical applications to the cloud. On an ongoing basis, Accenture will provide cloud managed services, including server management and support for migrated workloads; automation and analytics; storage and backup operations; and database support.
Kristin Myers, executive vice president, chief digital and information officer, and dean for digital and information technology at
The transition of Mount Sinai’s EMR system to the cloud allows access to patient information from anywhere at any time, which will lead to improved care coordination and collaboration for better patient outcomes. In addition to substantial cost savings achieved from reducing on-premise infrastructure, the implementation is improving Mount Sinai’s systems resiliency and reducing cybersecurity risk through modern architectures, continuous monitoring, and enhanced security measures and protocols.
As part of the transformation, Accenture and
Rich Birhanzel, Accenture’s global healthcare industry lead, said, “Healthcare organizations today are focused on expanding access to affordable care, creating better patient experiences and improving clinical outcomes. Achieving these things requires continuous innovation, data insight and integration as well as new ways of working. With this strategic migration of clinical applications,
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Maggie Nolan
Accenture
+1 917 452 3964
margaret.d.nolan@accenture.com
Stacy A. Anderson
Mount Sinai Health System
+1 646 605 8922 (office)
+1 347 346 3390 (mobile)
stacy.anderson@mountsinai.org
Source: Accenture
