Case Study: Cone Health achieves up to $1M annual EMR disaster‑recovery savings with NetApp on Azure

Cone Health advances care by saving millions on storing patient records

Cone Health, a North Carolina health system with five hospitals, multiple medical centers and affiliated clinics, manages electronic medical records for millions of patients—a mission‑critical task that requires uninterrupted availability, accuracy and long‑term retention. Maintaining complete on‑premises disaster‑recovery copies of huge EMR datasets was costly and time‑consuming, limiting the organization’s ability to reallocate back‑office savings to patient care and innovation.

Cone Health moved its Epic disaster‑recovery environment to Microsoft Azure using NetApp data‑management technologies, after extensive testing and replication. The cloud‑based approach—leveraging infrastructure as code for rapid provisioning—maintained performance and availability while reducing DR costs by up to $1M annually, accelerated scalability and freed resources for initiatives like AI, telehealth and automation.

Cone Health

Doug McMillian

CTO