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Faced with downward cost pressures, a full slate of initiatives including optimization, PHM, and FFS to VBC transition, more and more HDOs are pursuing outsourcing application support as part of a managed services strategy or as an interim solution for EMR or EHR transition. According to the 2017 HIMSS Annual Workforce Survey, “60% of healthcare provider respondents indicated their organization outsourced at least some of their IT staffing needs to a vendor or consultant rather than hiring staff directly.”
Moreover, HDOs seek an application management outsourcing partner to reduce cost and complexity, increase agility and innovation, improve quality, standardize and reduce risk. As highlighted in the survey: “Outsourcing vendors can combine a wide range of expertise with the ability to flex staff when needed, while maintaining state-of-the-art technology to improve efficiency and drive cost savings. In addition, Health IT service providers have become more adept at providing the services practices need, when they need them.”
It is under this context that we invite you to join us Thursday, 6/15, at 12PM EST for a HealthSystemCIO complimentary webinar, where Chad Brisendine, CIO, St. Luke’s University Health Network will present on this very topic: EHR Transitions: Legacy Support and Staff Augmentation. Chad will share SLUHN’s strategy for legacy application support as they transitioned from Allscripts Touchworks & GE Centricity to Epic and provide best practices and lessons learned.
Following this theme of EHR and EMR managed services, we are also excited to announce newly published resources to help HDOs navigate legacy application management & support:
Our Newsletter also reports on:
- Our impressions from the NEHIMSS 2017 Spring Conference, “Innovation: The Key to a Transformed Health System”
- 2017 International MUSE Conference Presentation by Kelly Del Gaudio, MEDITECH Principal Consultant, and, Cathy Alvarez, Clinical IT Analyst, Uvalde Memorial Hospital: Operation Nerdywork: A MEDITECH RULES REVOLUTION
- Continuation of our data migration blog series: Technical Considerations for Data Migration Go-Live
I hope that you find this information helpful, and as always, we welcome your feedback.
Steve Brewer, Chief Executive Officer
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