Cloud & Infrastructure, Explained: The 2026 Field Guide
What cloud & infrastructure covers, why it matters in 2026, and the numbers decision-makers should know.
Few corners of healthcare technology are moving faster than cloud & infrastructure. Healthcare cloud migrations, platforms, and compute infrastructure. This explainer sets out what the category actually covers, why it has moved to the center of health it & interoperability strategy, and the numbers every decision-maker should have at hand.
What it covers
Healthcare cloud migrations, platforms, and compute infrastructure. In practice, that spans the vendors building the technology, the health systems and payers deploying it, and the regulators writing the rules around it. The category sits inside our broader Health IT & Interoperability coverage, and its daily developments stream into the live Cloud & Infrastructure feed.
Why it matters in 2026
Consider the current numbers: kLAS reports Epic added 77 hospitals while Oracle Health shed 56, and overall EHR purchasing fell about 40% as budgets shift to AI (our coverage).
Meanwhile, healthcare suffered 410 ransomware attacks in the first half of 2026 - 2.3 per day, up 14% year over year (our coverage).
Meanwhile, the CPT 2026 code set formally recognizes remote monitoring and AI-assisted diagnostic services (our coverage).
What to watch next
Three signals will tell you where cloud & infrastructure goes from here: the reimbursement decisions now moving through CMS and commercial payers, the consolidation pattern as larger platforms absorb point solutions, and the evidence base - peer-reviewed results increasingly separate durable categories from demo-ware.
The bottom line
The organizations that win here will be the ones that treat this as an operating discipline, not a procurement exercise. For the latest developments, follow our continuously updated Cloud & Infrastructure topic page.