Technology Standards
Each health system deploys and operates technology independently, resulting in a far less standardized infrastructure, varying financial controls, and a siloed manpower organization. Departments are inherently inefficient and ultimately these costs are passed along to individuals, insurance, and government entities. Further, actual clinical outcomes are negatively affected. The ability to adopt modern, standardized IT elements are hindered, resulting in difficulties in exchanging and using clinical patient data, easing work demand on clinicians, and integrating the clinical and social elements of healthcare.
Taken together, lack of proper technology leadership and accountability, along with the parochial nature of hospitals, has led to a clash between IT demands and IT resources. Generally speaking, IT budgets are growing more slowly than demands on their services. The lack of efficiency and standardization exacerbates the situation. This trend shows no sign of slowing. From more complex imaging and diagnostic tools, to drug development, treatments, data analytics, and the push for government to somehow control costs, the need to do more with less continues to intensify.
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