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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources.
Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Hospital Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting hospitals and the inherent opportunities and risks.
- Assess how your team is positioned from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights to help you update your IT strategy.
Strategy Alignment
Hospital Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Hospital Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
Strategy Alignment
Hospital IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Hospital Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Hospital Interoperability Report
- The benefits of multiple healthcare providers exchanging a patient’s data have been known for some time – and central to sharing patient data is system interoperability.
- Learn about interoperability and how it affects both your organization and IT specifically, with expert assistance to update your IT strategy.
Top Trends
Hospital Privacy, Confidentiality & Security Report
- Regulation is central to healthcare provision. From the application of patient care through to the payment of insurance claims, protecting the privacy of patient data is fundamental.
- Continuing security threats can undermine the best-laid plans and find weaknesses that can be exploited.
- It is critical to keep IT systems and data safe as a number one priority, and this trend analysis will provide you with key insights to assist your IT team to effectively meet these threats.
Top Trends
Hospital Innovation Report
- Hospital administrative and practitioner staff are calling for innovation from IT – in particular, telehealth, which has become necessary in the age of COVID-19 – but also biosensors, digital assistants, and point-of-care diagnostics.
- Yet obstacles exist for Hospital CIOs as they are often not seen as innovators by doctors and medical staff.
- Learn how to advance innovation in your hospital.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Hospital IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their stakeholders are unsatisfied with the quality of service they’re receiving from IT.
- While Healthcare IT is generally meeting the needs of the business, training of end users in technology, IT security, IT capacity, and shadow IT are ongoing challenge areas.
- Understand important common focus areas to address, and gain insights into how your team aligns to other Healthcare IT teams.
Peer Benchmarking
Hospital IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. Healthcare IT staffing is stretched thin.
- While Healthcare IT is keeping the lights on quite well, there is little opportunity to lead, innovate, or plan for the long term.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical information to understand how to position your IT team to be more strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Hospital IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Hospital Clinical Decision Support Systems Report
- Treating a patient over the course of their life generates a tremendous amount of information and this can sometimes lead to suboptimal care if essential patient care data is not available.
- Learn about what CDSS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space and see how CDSS can transform your IT strategy and the ability to deliver it.
Core Industry Technologies
Hospital Electronic Health Records Report
- The concept of electronic health records (EHR) is not new, yet adoption has moved slowly due to fears over protection of patient privacy and security.
- While the benefits of data sharing and the associated innovations have been clear for some time, the defining need hasn’t – until COVID-19 changed everything.
- Gain key insights about features of EHR, top vendors, and how to implement this critical technology in your hospital.
Core Industry Technologies
Hospital Patient Management Systems Report
- While excellent patient care and optimal outcomes are the number one goal for any healthcare provider, the amount of administrative work in support of these services, especially heightened by the COVID-19 crisis, can be overwhelming.
- Patient management systems (PMS) serve to digitize/further digitize and optimize these administrative processes. Get insights on how you, as CIO, can lead this transformation.
Core Industry Technologies
Select an Electronic Health Record
- Leverage Info-Tech’s comprehensive three-phase approach to EHR selection projects: assess your organization’s preparedness to go into the selection stage. Our knowledgebase is derived from thousands of hours advising with health care institutions across the globe.
- Selection of the right tool is a critical step in delivering a safer, faster, and more meaningful experience for all players in the health care environment.
- Enable IT to be a trusted partner in EHR selection, while health care professionals will own the requirements and be involved from the beginning.
- Understand where the EHR market is going. Avoid paving the cow path with Info-Tech’s vendor feature-set-based approach to understanding the art of the possible for EHR.
- Take advantage of traceable and auditable selection tools to run an effective evaluation and selection process. Be prepared to answer the retroactive question “Why this EHR?” with documentation of your selection process and outputs.
Latest Hospitals Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
BloodChain and the Future of Healthcare in the Developing World
Date published
October 19, 2021
Author:
This note is part of a series on practical blockchain solutions for IT, with a particular focus on healthcare in the developing world. One product, “Bloodchain,” is designed to ensure safety up and down the blood supply chain.
How to Treat the Cloud File Sharing Virus
Date published
October 19, 2021
Author:
Healthcare is the fastest growing industry vertical for enterprise file synch and share services such as Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. If you are trying to determine if these should be used in your hospital, you are too late. They are just too darned easy.
Healthcare: Advice From the COVID-19 Roundtable
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
On March 25, 2020, Info-Tech led a COVID-19 Virtual Roundtable for Healthcare IT leaders. The focus of this roundtable was to address the top concerns for IT professionals working in the healthcare industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The roundtable was designed to facilitate an engaged conversation framed by three broad topics: Now in Crisis, Continuing in Crisis, and Crisis Resolved.
COVID-19: Making the Case to Invest in and Expand Telemedicine Services
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Now is the time for IT leaders to push to expand and invest in telemedicine services. COVID-19 is now a pandemic, and health systems are being stretched to respond to an influx of inquiries from patients. As more cases are reported, healthcare providers are being exposed to this virus, which creates a health and safety risk for providers on the front lines of diagnosis and treatment.
Problematic IT Processes for General Medical and Surgical Hospitals – Manage Service Catalog, Disaster Recovery Planning, and Security Strategy
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as “service gap” to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Hospitals Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.