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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.
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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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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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Hospital Regulation, Privacy & 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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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.
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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 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.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
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
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.
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.
Virtual Health Playbook – Executive Brief
Date published
September 7, 2021
Author:
Read our concise Executive Brief to improve patient access to virtual care by making it simple, accessible, and affordable. Review Info-Tech’s methodology and understand the four key steps to completing this project.
Global Approaches to Developing COVID-19 Verification Certificates
Date published
June 18, 2021
Authors:
As nation states consider how to reopen their borders safely, many governments are contemplating, and some have already implemented, the use of a digital vaccine certification process. Since personal health information is highly sensitive, it is important to ask critical and specific questions about how data will be collected, stored, and verified.
Don’t Get Left Behind: A Review of American Rescue Plan Healthcare Funding Priorities Aimed at Strengthening Technology Modernization
Date published
May 28, 2021
Author:
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) is the third stimulus package passed by the federal government of the United States since March 2020. Stimulus funding aims to address gaps created as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ARP comprises $1.9 trillion in mandatory funding, programming, and tax policies, which will provide significant relief to Americans adversely affected by the pandemic. Health IT professionals must be aware of the variety of funding opportunities available that are designed to improve healthcare service delivery.
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.