Lack of Staffing Resources

Lack of Adequate Financial Support

Vendor Inability to Deliver Product

Difficulty in End User Acceptance

Lack of Time Commitment from Clinicians

Lack of Strategic IT Plan

Lack of Interoperable Systems

21%

15%

13%

7%

6%

4%

4%

SOURCES: INNOTAS.COM, HIMSS.ORG

Cloud Solutions for IT Management

Now that healthcare in America is evolving as rapidly as technology, hospitals are expected to transform their archaic IT systems to meet reform requirements or face significant penalties from the government. Add to the mix a lack of skilled IT workers and an operating system that is already functioning at a loss, and the next few years look very grim. How can hospitals meet the mandates and recover their cumbersome IT systems? We outline what these facilities need to implement now to meet a brighter future.

The 2013 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey identified that healthcare reform will be the key issue that IT organizations will focus on.

of respondents indicated their top IT priority was to optimize the effective use of their currently installed systems.

indicated that ensuring their Electronic Health Records were fully functional would be the focus.

of respondents said they would focus on leveraging information housed in data warehouses and business intelligence systems.

Hospitals are currently struggling to deal with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) upgrades, figuring out Health Information Exchange (HIE) compatibility, Meaningful Use mandates, and the upgrades required for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10).

Failure to comply with deadlines can result in the government withholding federal subsidies, and 15% FINES until an organization reaches attainment. For hospitals, this is a significant cost.

The number of surveyed executives that identified this area as a top IT priority continues to drop from half of the respondents.

TOP BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTING IT:

WHAT’S ON THE LINE?WHAT’S ON THE LINE?

TOP IT PRIORITIES TOP IT PRIORITIES

Surveyed IT executives admitted there are several factors preventing their organizations from implementing their top priorities.

FAILURE TO EXECUTE

To reach compliancy more quickly and efficiently, hospitals must implement a cloud-based management system, which will reduce cost of poor IT management and streamline all processes. A cloud-based system should employ the following for hospitals:

A platform that offers visibility into an entire portfolio of IT programs, increasing accountability across dozens of projects, allowing for better management of IT financials and resources.

Improve communications workflow by capturing requests from clinicians who are not used to interacting with IT systems.

Manage complex programs with multiple projects, such as EHR/EMR implementations.

FINDING EFFICIENCYFINDING EFFICIENCY

20%

CREATE VISIBILITY

19% 17%

20112012

50%

2013 28%38%

of the respondents identified a focus on revenue cycle management (RCM) or supply chain systems as a top IT priority. NONE

EASE ADOPTION SOLVE

A KEY SOLUTION TO MEETING THE HEALTHCARE MANDATES

revenue cyclemanagement

supply chain system

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HOSPITALSMUST LOOK TO THE

CLOUD

15%