The Prescription for Healthcare Provider Cloud Success, a report published by Wipro FullStride Cloud Services indicates that since the start of the pandemic, healthcare providers have been leveraging the cloud to improve IT systems, clinical documentation, patient engagement and clinical decision support, driving faster growth and better efficiencies.

91% of cloud leaders expect their cloud capabilities to be largely centralized within the next 2 years and 64% of cloud leaders have realized cybersecurity cost savings by migrating to cloud.

“Technology-led innovation, powered by a specialized full-stack of cloud infrastructure, is helping tackle some of the most significant challenges within healthcare,” said Mohd Haque, Senior Vice President and Sector Head, Healthcare and Medical Devices, Wipro Limited.

“Cloud innovation spans the entire healthcare value chain and builds new ways of patient engagement. It unleashes technologies such as AI that aid health experts as they improve patient outcomes. It augments physician insights, embeds intelligence into devices, addresses healthcare disparities and connects patients, payers and providers,” added Haque.

This accelerated pace of cloud adoption has helped the industry’s cloud leaders (mature adopters) realize an average revenue gain of 6.6% from their cloud investments and an annualized return on investment (RoI) of 54%.

The report builds out six tactics that offer a roadmap for healthcare providers to emulate, as a means of improving their own cloud practices.

Cloud Services is based on a survey of 1,400 global C-level executives conducted between June and September 2021. It incorporates data from 110 healthcare providers located in Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the U.S., with revenues ranging from $5 billion to $20 billion.