Cloud Migration Playbook: A Practical Guide for Health Plans

Why Cloud, Why Now? 

The business case for cloud adoption in the healthcare payer space has never been stronger. Aging infrastructure, heightened compliance demands, and increasing member expectations are converging to create both urgency and opportunity. 

This playbook outlines a proven, scalable framework for migrating critical systems to the cloud while optimizing costs, reducing risk, and accelerating innovation. 

Migration Planning Framework

Stage 1: Assessment & Readiness 

• Define business drivers (cost, agility, compliance) 
• Audit current workloads (on-prem vs. hybrid) 
• Identify regulatory constraints (HIPAA, HITRUST) 

Stage 2: Prioritization & Strategy 

• Select high-impact workloads (e.g., contact center, claims analytics) 
• Classify apps using the 6R model (Rehost, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild, Replace, Retire) 

Stage 3: Migration Execution 

• Leverage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) 
• Use containers and serverless where applicable 
• Establish a change management and rollback plan 

Stage 4: Optimization & Monitoring 

• Set cost governance controls (e.g., reserved vs. spot instances) 
• Implement observability and proactive incident response
  

DevOps & Automation Acceleration

Top-performing health plans use migration as a launchpad for DevOps maturity.

Key Practices: 

• Deploy reusable modules for faster provisioning 
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and apps 
• Enable blue/green deployments for mission-critical systems 

Outcomes:

• Reduce deployment failures by 40%+
• Cut infrastructure provisioning time from weeks to minutes 

Security & Compliance by Design

Framework Alignment:

• Map infrastructure controls to NIST, HIPAA, and HITRUST requirements 
• Use cloud-native tooling for identity, access, and audit trails 

Best Practices: 

• Encrypt data in transit and at rest (TLS 1.2+, AES-256) 
• Automate patching and policy enforcement (e.g., AWS Config, Azure Policy) 

Outcomes: 

• Faster compliance reporting 
• Audit readiness with minimal disruption 

Financial ROI: Cloud Cost Optimization

Drivers of Cost Reduction: 

• Eliminate redundant hardware and licenses 
• Use right-sized, reserved, or spot instances 
• Auto-scale resources based on demand 

Tools: 

• CloudHealth, Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer 

Client Benchmark: 

• 60% reduction in migration-related costs with reusable assets 
• 30% TCO reduction over 24 months for rehosted applications 
  

Common Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them

Key Takeaways 

• Treat cloud migration as a strategic transformation, not just an IT project 
• Use automation and IaC to future-proof your environment 
• Partner with cloud-literate, healthcare-compliant service providers 
• Embed compliance and FinOps at every stage 

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Here’s what you’ll get: 

• A one-click workload scan across your environment 
• An executive-ready migration plan built by senior cloud architects 
• Compliance gap analysis and early-stage cost modeling 

Whether you’re rehosting, refactoring, or modernizing entire systems, this low-risk, high-value offer is designed to get your initiative moving fast. 

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