Overview
UST helps healthcare payers deploy Epic on Microsoft Azure with a strategic, compliance-ready approach tailored to the unique needs of plans using Epic Tapestry or Epic for Plans. Whether supporting under-1M-member Blues, university-affiliated systems, or national payers, UST combines cloud economics, Epic-certified expertise, and application modernization to drive down costs, streamline operations, and improve downstream value realization. With migration blueprints, FinOps governance, and managed services, UST simplifies the complexity of moving Epic workloads, including IRE, DR, PRD, and Non-PRD to Azure while improving scale, security, and performance.
Key features
- Epic cloud migration for payers: Full Epic deployment on Azure, including PRD, DR, IRE, and non-PRD ancillary app hosting.
- Tapestry optimization services: Boost claims accuracy, risk adjustment performance, network utilization, and care coordination.
- Epic Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE): Isolated, immutable, read-only, and read-write replica of Epic for ransomware resilience and continuity of care.
- Azure deployment accelerators: Infrastructure-as-code templates, reference architectures, and migration automation scripts powered by agentic AI.
- Single pane of glass monitoring: Unified dashboard for FinOps, infrastructure health, and Epic system visibility.
- 3X performance gains: Proven cloud architecture and storage compression reduce latency and optimize Azure resource use.
- Application rationalization: Consolidate co-traveling apps and reduce infrastructure overhead through targeted modernization.
- End-to-end managed services: 24/7 support, patching, upgrades, and governance for Epic and related systems.
UST differentiators
- PACE+ migration framework: Proven Epic-to-Azure accelerators, including prebuilt architecture blueprints, Agentic AI-driven deployment scripts, and sequenced testing and cutover planning.
- Deep Epic + Azure expertise: 2,000+ certified Epic and cloud experts, 10+ years of Azure practice, 100+ payer and provider clients.
- Outcome-based pricing models: SLA-driven, shared-risk contracts aligned to cost savings and time-to-value goals.
- Healthcare-specific security readiness: HIPAA- and HITRUST-ready Azure landing zones and CyberProof-managed incident response.
- FinOps for cloud cost control: Rightsizing, reserved instance planning, idle resource cleanup, and continuous Azure spend governance.
- Interoperability and analytics leadership: Native support for Epic analytics (Caboodle, Clarity, Radar, Slicer Dicer) and integration with downstream payer platforms.
Benefits
- Lower total cost of ownership: Shift CapEx to OpEx with Azure and UST-managed infrastructure, and eliminating costly on-premise hardware.
- Improved payer operations: Enhance STARS/HEDIS ratings, reduce manual claim review, and increase provider collaboration with optimized Tapestry workflows.
- Faster time to value: Decrease migration timelines by up to 40% using automation and repeatable infrastructure templates.
- Ransomware protection: IRE configuration provides emergency access to clinical data even during system-wide attacks.
- Optimized resource use: Support high concurrency with cost-effective Azure performance—up to 75,000+ concurrent Epic users supported.
- End-user satisfaction: Enhance clinical and administrative experiences through faster system response times, enhanced analytics access, and 24/7 support.
Microsoft alignment
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure NetApp Files
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Active Directory (AD)
Pricing
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About UST
UST delivers digital transformation with a human-centered lens across the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem. We empower providers and payers to innovate confidently, automate intelligently, and align technology strategy with care outcomes. With more than 15 years of Epic and cloud expertise, and a 98% client retention rate, we’re trusted by leading health systems to execute high-stakes cloud programs with speed and integrity.
Learn more at ust.health