Healthcare IT Today November 18, 2022
When we look at all the expansion of healthcare organizations that’s happening, we often forget about some of the IT implications that this expansion includes. In fact, I’m sorry to say that IT is often just an afterthought when healthcare organizations choose to expand. While IT isn’t a major factor in the decision to expand, IT is a major factor in determining the success of that expansion.
Take something like hosting your EHR as a simple example of this challenge. As a healthcare organization expands, this often would mean their IT staff would have to source a local data center vendor and everything that’s involved with hosting your EHR on a private cloud that is reliably close to the new...