
Michael Black, Managing Director, and Sahithi Bayana, Senior Manager, Deloitte. Healthcare organizations often cite IT spend as a barrier to embarking on a Cloud transformation journey. However, margin-improvement initiatives such as application rationalization and a refreshed operating model can self-fund major cloud transformations, expediting the time to steady state and cost optimization. An organization’s self-funded transformation is a case study of the future on how Cloud can help an integrated health system improve its performance and IT spend, provide better care, and create an adaptable business model.