Case Study: Fortis Healthcare achieves rapid deployments and 50% lower TCO with Microsoft Azure

Public Cloud Powers Business Transformation at Healthcare Major

Fortis Healthcare, one of India’s largest private healthcare providers with 54 facilities, 10,000 beds and 17,000 employees, faced a fragmented, on-premises IT landscape where each hospital ran its own systems. This siloed setup prevented sharing patient records, slowed application rollouts (taking months), and increased costs and complexity, prompting a need for a centralized, scalable, secure infrastructure to deliver a consistent patient experience.

Fortis migrated its Hospital Information System, Oracle Financials and Supply Chain, application servers and intranet to Microsoft Azure IaaS in eight months. The move transformed IT into a service provider, cut total cost of ownership by about 50%, enabled the Patient Care Portal to be launched in a day instead of 3–4 months, improved patient experience under higher transaction volumes, and positioned Fortis to expand cloud adoption into analytics and predictive healthcare.

Fortis Healthcare

Veneeth Purushotaman

Chief Information Officer