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Thanks to AI, More CIOs Are Reporting to CEOs
CIOs are using AI to improve diagnostic efficiency and health outcomes, at lower costs. These innovations grow revenue and are resulting in the CIO often reporting to the CEO instead of the CFO 63% of the time.
3 Critical Factors for Successful Healthcare Software Implementations
Healthcare IT project success depends on three critical factors: setting realistic expectations and time frames, involving end users, and obtaining executive buy-in. See our checklist.
IT modernization and application rationalization: a practical path to resilience
Reducing unnecessary costs, improving efficiency, and strengthening resilience against future risks starts with an honest look at the application portfolio you already own.
Why managed services are the unsung enabler of your AI strategy
Organizations heavy on strategic priorities like AI need a partner to handle the day-to-day breaks and fixes — so internal teams can focus on the initiatives that move the mission forward.
Reducing Vulnerability to Cyberattacks: Application Rationalization
The benefits of application rationalization—more efficient systems, better interoperability and reducing infrastructure and operational costs
38:04The EHR optimization imperative: what health systems get wrong after go-live
Pivot Point partners discuss the most common optimization mistakes health systems make in the first two years post go-live — and the playbook for getting EHR performance back on track.
Five Practical Ways Healthcare IT Project Managers Use AI Right Now
Innovative’s Marc Hirshfield lists five popular AI project management programs and ways they help boost effectiveness, timeliness, and outcomes of healthcare IT projects.
Face-to-Face Selling of Technology Is Better for Customers
Mindy Elmer, Innovative Consulting Group Vice President, discusses why in-person selling is twice as helpful as phone sales for better exploring complex healthcare IT solutions.
Interoperability Is Vital, but Integration Is the Goal
The advantages of moving beyond interoperability to full data integration include seamless data flow, improved patient care and better data and analytic insights.
Trusted Data is Critical to the Efficacy of Responsible AI (Part 3)
Trusted data refers to information that is reliable, accurate, secure, and compliant with relevant regulations and standards.
Six Steps to Getting Your Health System ‘AI Ready’ (Part 2)
Before you add AI solutions, make sure your systems have data aggregation, a holistic patient understanding, improved diagnostic accuracy, workflow efficiency, facilities research, and development and data security and compliance.
Is Your Hospital or Health System ‘AI Ready’? (Part 1)
Effective use of AI, and being AI Ready, relies on the comprehensive integration of all systems and creation of trusted data.
31:47Building AI-ready health systems: governance, data, and the road to ROI
Wendy Soethe breaks down what it actually takes to stand up an enterprise analytics and AI program — from data governance foundations to measuring clinical and operational outcomes.
How Self-Service Analytics Can Elevate Organizational Data in Healthcare
Data innovation leveraging analytics and AI is essential to advancing the strategy and operations of any business. In healthcare, however, it is imperative—quite literally, lives are on the line.
Why Healthcare Organizations Are Outsourcing IT Projects
HIT outsourcing is a way to lessen IT staffing costs, work with experienced IT consultants, update systems and increase clinical efficiencies and improve patient care.
A New Paradigm: Managing HIT Projects in a (Mostly) Virtual World
Virtual hospital IT project managers, leveraging online collaboration tools, can be cost effective in updating or adding new IT, with specialized skills.
Application Rationalization Can Provide for Rapid Self-Funded OpEx Reduction
IT costs represent about 3% of hospital expenses. By outsourcing IT rationalization and operations, hospitals can improve operating efficiencies and reduce technology costs.
Rachel Marano in Fast Company on Workaholism
Rachel Marano recently published a piece in Fast Company on how workaholism impacts stress levels and health. See what she had to say today.
Infographic: Every Journey Needs a MAP
Are you ready to accelerate your healthcare organization's data innovation journey? Find your MAP and get started today.
Five Critical Success Factors in Hospital IT Rationalization
When outsourcing hospital IT rationalization, require a strategic roadmap, architectural framework, ranking of applications, managing the transition and IT costs going forward.
2024 Outlook: The Future of Healthcare IT
With the new year upon us, our industry experts sat down to discuss the trends they foresee for the healthcare IT field in 2024.
AI Already Is Reducing Headaches in Healthcare Access and Delivery
AI is improving healthcare delivery from the first patient interactions, through diagnosis and treatment and concluding with more efficient and accurate claim administration.
Surge in Hospital IT Spending Requires Careful Governance
Third party application rationalization saves staffing and systems resources and boosts system efficiency.
Healthcare Coding Series: ICD
ICD (International Classification of Diseases) is a standardized system for coding diseases and other health conditions, used for tracking and monitoring disease incidence and prevalence and for reimbursement purposes.