Tegria at the IPMI Healthcare IT Institute: Insights on Cloud-Enabled Digital Evolution

The 2025 IPMI Healthcare IT Institute brought healthcare IT leaders from across the country together to discuss the rapidly evolving digital landscape. In their standout breakout session, Cloud-Enabled Digital Evolution in Healthcare IT, Tegria’s Tye Cook and Chad Skidmore led a candid conversation about how healthcare organizations can move beyond buzzwords to build practical, future-ready infrastructure strategies.

“Healthcare organizations are under pressure to move fast, but the smart ones are taking a breath and asking: What really makes sense for us?” said Chad Skidmore, VP of Infrastructure + Cloud at Tegria.

It’s not about adopting a ‘cloud-first’ mentality because that’s the trend. It’s about understanding the true value and cost of every decision.

CHAD SKIDMORE

Connecting Strategy to Reality 

Many attendees shared that their organizations have already adopted tools such as ServiceNow, Workday, and Office365 with Copilot, but still face significant hurdles in connecting systems, aligning teams, and making measurable progress.  

“Too often, these initiatives live in silos,” said Tye Cook, Executive Director at Tegria.

What we’re seeing and encouraging is a shift toward integration, not just technically, but across governance, operations, and leadership alignment.

TYE COOK

Tye and Chad also addressed emerging trends such as cloud repatriation and the increasing pressure on IT teams to deliver value through AI. With many healthcare leaders incentivized to adopt new technologies, the session underscored the need for thoughtful planning, clear objectives, and a realistic view of organizational readiness. 

Top Insights 

1. Strategy over speed. Cloud and AI adoption should be driven by business and clinical goals, not by industry momentum or vendor roadmaps. 

2. Integration matters. Many healthcare organizations are struggling to make existing platforms work together. Connecting systems like ServiceNow and Workday can unlock operational and clinical benefits. 

3. IT workforce management ties directly to patient experience. Forward-looking organizations are starting to recognize this link and prioritize it accordingly. 

Across conversations and meetings at the event, the Tegria team saw growing interest in platform integration, infrastructure strategy, and modern data platforms. Organizations are moving past pilot projects and looking for partners who can help scale digital capabilities in a sustainable, cost-effective way. 

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