Abstract
As healthcare organizations struggle with competing priorities such as HITECH/ARRA, Meaningful Use, ICD-10, 5010, and ACA, providers are struggling to determine cost efficient ways to provide accessible health information. With the rising healthcare costs, tight budgets, insufficient IT staff, and lack of IT infrastructure, many healthcare organizations are finding Cloud/SaaS solutions an attractive option to meet their changing needs.
A 2011 Gartner survey of chief information officers (CIOs) reveals that almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years. According to Gartner, “This change will necessitate that CIOs re-imagine IT and lead their organizations through a process of creative destruction.”
According to the survey, CIOs will have to think rethink several key factors:
- Using IT to support growth and competitive advantage
- Understanding what it means to be digital enterprise
- Gaining value from an outside perspective
- Seeing the impact of people from inside the IT organization
- Understanding IT’s influence on business success
Addressing these key factors require highly specialized software development skills and advisory experience few healthcare organizations possess in-house. As a consequence, successful healthcare organizations rely heavily on third party developers proven methodologies and tools.
The just published “Successful Strategies for Implementing SaaS/Cloud Solutions in Healthcare” white paper will show you:
- What is Cloud Computing;
- The main business drivers for healthcare SaaS/Cloud adoption;
- Key implementation risks and challenges;
- How to address the unique challenges associated with Healthcare SaaS/Cloud delivery and development.
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