Mobilizing for Cloud Transformation: A Healthcare Executive's Perspective
Executives leading their organization's transition to the cloud realize the critical importance of the mobilization phase. This stage bridges the initial assessment and the migration, setting a solid foundation for the cloud journey. During the mobilization stage, companies like Sublimation Health partner with technology leaders, focusing on the organization's readiness by leveraging their experiences and emphasizing people and technological infrastructure. Here are the critical components emphasized during this crucial phase.
Portfolio Management
A detailed discovery and planning process for the IT portfolio involves cataloging all applications, databases, and systems. This includes assessing which workloads are prime candidates for cloud migration, which need modernization, and which might need to remain on-premises.
Planning and governance efforts include:
Maintaining control and compliance in the new cloud environment requires essential groundwork. Sublimation Health will develop a detailed business case for each aspect of the cloud migration, which is a critical step. This will prioritize efforts and allocate resources to initiatives that deliver the most value to patients and the organization.
People and Culture
The most crucial element of their cloud mobilization efforts centers on people. IT departments must invest heavily in skills development, cultural change management, and leadership training to create a cloud-first mindset across the organization.
Leaders, technology staff, and partners like Sublimation Health are conducting workshops, training sessions, and immersive "cloud days" to familiarize their staff with cloud technologies and concepts. Teams are becoming enthusiastic as they grasp the potential of cloud computing for improving patient care and operational efficiency. Additionally, they may establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), a cross-functional team that will guide their cloud adoption strategy and serve as internal cloud champions and experts.
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Platform and Operations
CIOs and their team are setting up their cloud landing zone on the technical side. This provides a secure, compliant foundation for the cloud environment, ensuring proper account structures, network design, and security controls are in place.
IT must reimagine its operating model for the cloud era. This involves new processes like provisioning resources, managing costs, and ensuring security in a dynamic cloud environment. It's a significant shift from our traditional IT operations but will ultimately make us more agile and responsive to healthcare's evolving needs.
Security and compliance are paramount in healthcare. IT leaders focus closely on these areas by working with cloud vendors to understand their shared responsibility model and implementing additional controls to meet HIPAA requirements and protect sensitive patient data.
Challenges and Opportunities
The mobilization stage has its challenges. Change management is an ongoing effort, and I have constantly encountered resistance from team members who are comfortable with our legacy systems. However, we're gradually winning over even the most skeptical stakeholders by demonstrating early wins and innovation potential. Years of accumulated technical debt and intricate interdependencies between systems make planning our migration path complex. But this challenge also presents an opportunity to streamline and modernize our infrastructure.
Looking Ahead
As we progress through the mobilization stage, I grow increasingly confident in healthcare's cloud transformation journey. The foundations organizations are laying will enable them to accelerate transformation at scale during the migration phase in terms of skills, processes, and infrastructure.
The potential benefits for our healthcare organization are immense. Enhanced data analytics capabilities will improve patient outcomes, provide greater agility in deploying new healthcare technologies, and provide more robust disaster recovery options. The cloud promises to revolutionize how we deliver care.
If you need help exploring how Sublimation Health can support your cloud journey, please get in touch with Amanda Lyons at [email protected].