Nutanix, a pioneer in hybrid multicloud computing, today published findings from the healthcare vertical edition of its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey. The report, which examines infrastructure readiness, AI adoption, and containerisation trends across healthcare organisations globally, reveals a sector under mounting pressure. AI deployment is being driven from the top, shadow AI is proliferating across clinical and administrative functions, and the infrastructure required to support secure, compliant AI workloads at the point of care is not yet in place.
As AI moves from the data centre to the bedside, where up to 75% of healthcare data is expected to be generated, the stakes around infrastructure readiness, data sovereignty, and clinical governance have never been higher. The findings show that while healthcare IT leaders recognise the transformative potential of AI, including through autonomous agents and real-time clinical decision support, the organisational and infrastructure gaps required to realise that potential remain significant.
