Healthcare Cloud Infrastructure Report
Healthcare cloud migration trends, HIPAA compliance benchmarks, and clinical workload modernisation data from 341 healthcare IT leaders.
This report is in progress
Healthcare cloud adoption has accelerated past the tipping point: 71% of hospitals and health systems now run at least one clinical workload in the cloud. This report quantifies migration velocity, HIPAA compliance posture, EHR cloud adoption, and the cost impact of healthcare-specific infrastructure requirements across AWS, Azure, and GCP healthcare clouds.
Expected: March 5, 2026
Preliminary Key Findings
71% of hospitals and health systems run at least one clinical workload in the cloud — up from 44% in 2023
Epic on Azure leads EHR cloud deployment at 38%, followed by Cerner Cloud at 24%
Healthcare organisations pay a 28% compliance overhead premium on cloud costs due to HIPAA-eligible service requirements
Mean time to complete a full hospital data centre exit is 22 months — organisations using specialist healthcare cloud partners complete in 16 months
PHI data breach risk is 3.4x higher in cloud environments without dedicated HIPAA infrastructure management
Healthcare cloud modernisation (not just migration) delivers 2.1x the cost savings vs lift-and-shift in a 3-year period
FHIR R4 API adoption in cloud healthcare platforms reached 67% in 2025 — up from 31% in 2023
Healthcare organisations that implement cloud FinOps practices specific to clinical workloads save 31% more than those using generic FinOps
SOC 2 Type II is now required by 78% of large health systems as a vendor qualification criteria for digital health partners
Telehealth platforms on cloud infrastructure process 5.2x the patient volume per infrastructure dollar vs on-premises equivalents
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