When taking advantage of technology, healthcare is often met with considerably more barriers to entry than business. Cloud platforms can offer great benefits such as scalability, reduced cost and the ability to effortlessly collaborate across services, and indeed, across the world [6] yet healthcare has been slow to take advantage of these gains. This paper explores the challenges faced by healthcare, how using synthetic data can avoid the initial information governance barriers, provide the experience to effectively evaluate cloud platforms, enable effective research collaboration with education and industry, and support the digital transformation journey.