By Mike Machulsky, EVP, Business Development As healthcare organizations continue to pursue their digital transformations, IT teams may find themselves barraged with requests for the next shiny object or must-have platform from teams across their organization. Managing the volume and complexity of potential solutions can impede results. That’s why HIMSS Analytics created complementary maturity models…
On Thursday, June 16th, the Most Influential Women in Health IT Award recipients shared their insights, experiences, and advice on driving transformational change in Health IT in a HIMSS-hosted webinar. Pixel Health’s own Barbara W. Casey, CRO, shared her career journey, how she found her voice as a leader, her thoughts on encouraging more women…
by Kathleen Harmon, MS, RN As a former ED nurse, I often reflect on my direct care delivery experience and recall the feeling of being forced to work in a certain way when new technology was pushed into my workflow that often didn’t make sense. Technology often acted as a barrier, not an enabler for…
Healthcare continues to rapidly transform digitally, increasing the demand for new and better technologies to support clinician and patient workflows. To advance your health system’s digital transformation, it’s critical to first understand the information technology infrastructure supporting day-to-day operations, and then create a go-forward plan for advancement. But devising a comprehensive, sustainable infrastructure strategy can…
INFRAM and INFRAM+ puts IT in the center of the strategic financial decision-making process It garners invaluable input and support from clinicians, executives, and administrators Proprietary strategic mapping correlates INFRAM results with clinical goals and provides an IT roadmap for budget and leadership consensus building INFRAM+: More Than Just Another Assessment In part three of our series, we look at how INFRAM+, a proprietary…
An INFRAM assessment is primarily tactical. INFRAM+ ties directly to clinical strategic initiatives A three-to-four day on site analysis involves IT and primary department, executive, and clinical stakeholders Proprietary strategic mapping ties specific technologies to specific clinical goals INFRAM+: Taking INFRAM from Tactics to Strategy Not seeing the forest through the trees is a common mistake in the IT business. In part one of our…
INFRAM+: Tactics vs Strategy In part 1 of our three–part series, we look at the HIMSS Analytics Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM) as a foundational building block. INFRAM is fast becoming the healthcare industry standard for evaluating a hospital or health system’s infrastructure stability and manageability in five key areas. Mobility Security Collaboration Transport Data Center The resulting Baseline Achievement Report is just that, a baseline. INFRAM scores don’t provide a…
