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Background
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is a not-for-profit community health system dedicated to improving the health and quality of life of the people of Northeast Georgia. NGHS is anchored by Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s five hospital campuses – NGMC Gainesville, NGMC Braselton, NGMC Barrow, NGMC Habersham, and NGMC Lumpkin – with a total of more than 950 beds and more than 1,300 medical staff members representing more than 60 specialties.
Challenge
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) set out with a vision: to become a cloud-first healthcare organization. Their Epic® Electronic Health Record (EHR) environment, which supported thousands of clinicians and staff daily, was central to this transformation. Running Epic on-premises presented challenges in scalability, performance, resilience, and cost. NGHS needed to migrate its Epic workload to the cloud seamlessly, securely, and future-proof.
”We have become one of the first healthcare systems in Georgia to migrate our entire Epic workload to AWS, and we’re already seeing significant improvements including Epic performing 20% faster and significantly faster login times. By modernizing our IT environment, we’ve created a more resilient, reliable, and cost-effective foundation that enables continued innovation and
Chris ParavateChief Information Officer
strengthens our commitment to being a cloud-first organization. A special thank you to Optimum Healthcare IT and AWS for supporting us on this journey.
Solution
NGHS partnered with Optimum Healthcare IT to develop a strong foundation for its cloud-first journey. To better understand NGHS’ existing network and application landscape and how they behave and perform across the entire enterprise, the two organizations worked together to lay the groundwork for the future. As a part of its cloud journey, NGHS and Optimum Healthcare IT chose to work with the public cloud vendor Amazon Web Service (AWS).
Cloud Landing Zone
Establishing a secure and scalable AWS foundation to support Epic and other clinical workloads.
Epic Migration
Moving the entire Epic environment from on-premises infrastructure to AWS with minimal disruption.
Optimization & Testing
Fine-tuning performance, validating workflows, and ensuring compliance with healthcare security and regulatory standards.
Collaboration
Embedding Optimum and AWS expertise alongside NGHS’s IT and clinical leadership to create a unified, cloud-first approach.
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Want to hear more about Northeast Georgia Health Systems’ cloud-first journey?
If so, click here to listen to Chief Information Officer Chris Paravate and Chief Technology Officer Stuart Samples explore the challenges and triumphs of migrating to a digital-first approach on the Visionary Voices podcast.
*Epic is a trademark of Epic Systems Corporation
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