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.