Australian healthcare organisations have largely made the move to cloud. The harder question is whether cloud is delivering enough value for the systems that now depend on it.
Datacom’s 2025 Cloud & Infrastructure Report: Healthcare finds that fewer than half of Australian organisations are seeing the benefits they expected from cloud. For healthcare leaders, that gap is more than an IT issue. It can affect patient services, claims platforms, clinical analytics, cyber resilience, data privacy and the ability to modernise without disrupting critical operations.
The findings point to a growing tension:
Only 48% of Australian organisations report achieving expected cloud benefits.
22% name security as their top technology priority, yet fewer than half have a formal cloud security strategy.
26% cite budget as a top challenge, while 23% report higher-than-expected cloud total cost of ownership.
68% prefer keeping data processing in-country, with data sovereignty now central to healthcare cloud decisions.
The report goes further, examining:
How legacy clinical and administrative systems can limit cloud value.
Why security, sovereignty and resilience are now inseparable from healthcare cloud strategy.
How AI, containerisation and application modernisation are changing the economics of transformation.
Where healthcare organisations can find practical gains without adding unnecessary complexity.
For leaders responsible for technology, risk, operations, security or digital health strategy, this report offers a clear view of where cloud is delivering, where it is falling short, and what healthcare organisations need to address next.
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