Reaping the Rewards of Migrating EHRs to the Cloud

20:06 - 14 Dec 2025

Leaders at Sentara Health, a healthcare system serving Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, knew that keeping their electronic health records stuck in an on-premises data center wasn’t ideal — for the organization or its customers. “Our customers should not have to come to my data center and sit in the hospital to be able to access their data,” says Jeffrey Thomas, senior vice president and CTO at Sentara Health. Moreover, he adds, an on-premises EHR meant that Sentara could not fully leverage new technologies, such as a data factory, in a cost-effective manner. Starting in 2018, Sentara...