The mindset needs to shift – infrastructure can no longer be viewed as a commodity. "Good enough" will not work in today's new world of connected healthcare and Meaningful Use. A new model needs to be adopted and it is called The Infrastructure Transformational Model.
Many hospitals and other healthcare organizations are making their way to Level 4 in the model and are better aligning their information technology efforts to achieve greater operational improvements. This white paper delivers an illustrated model and a thought-provoking discussion which will facilitate your efforts to change how infrastructure is viewed – more importantly – how it can be used as a foundation to enable a higher level of performance in your integrated healthcare initiatives.
Many healthcare strategic plans highlight common goals: Improve patient care, increase outreach, control costs, and improve operational capacity. Without being properly enabled, healthcare strategic plans will sit on a shelf and will not be achieved.
Healthcare IT plays a key role in enabling strategic plans and facilitating the achievement of many critical goals. To master this connection, health IT must align their plans and technologies to key objectives documented in a strategic plan.
This white paper identifies several key actions which health IT management and professionals should take to better serve their organization's goals and objectives while becoming the underlying enabler of the strategic plan.
Diagnostic imaging has experienced many dramatic changes. With those changes, demand for improving radiology workflows and streamlining radiology business operations have intensified. Getting the right strategic and tactical elements in place is essential. However, it is easy to be distracted by the ultimate application without putting the necessary underlying technologies in place first.
This white paper outlines a logical model for putting the critical pieces in place at the right time. Executing these elements in a rational, practical way will enable more tangible results to be realized sooner rather than later, and aid a timelier implementation of the complete approach. The result will be a more efficient, productive, and high-performing radiology operation.
Many radiology groups today have aggressive strategic plans to expand their operations while streamlining key radiology workflows. Gaining productivity is an imperative, as is efficiently extending your reach to referring physicians.
Selecting the right IT infrastructure approach will be critical to realizing the intended results. This white paper highlights an Infrastructure Transformational Model to refine your plans and ensure your approach will deliver on the defined strategic plan for your radiology operations. Included in the paper are several key actions which will assist in taking a fresh look at your IT infrastructure and the role it plays in achieving your strategic objectives.
Revolutionary or Fundamental? HITECH has added a layer of complexity and enhanced demands, and much of the work lands at your doorstep as a health IT professional and leader. Yes, HITECH delivers opportunity, but it also presents challenges – new applications along with new workflows, and elevated requirements along with intensified attention to patient care which is reportable, repeatable, and relevant.
