Hospital & Healthcare Management November 30, 2023
Healthcare organisations are looking to innovative digital technology to streamline clinical workflows, improve patient care and boost business performance. However, legacy IT systems and practices often stand in the way and make deploying new digital healthcare solutions across the enterprise daunting.
Fortunately, help is on the way. Forward-looking health IT leaders are turning to a new generation of cloud-based data integration platforms to simplify operations, overcome staffing challenges and accelerate innovation.
Legacy data integration issues
Healthcare IT environments are notoriously fragmented. Until recently, there were no widely adopted, universal standards for formatting and exchanging healthcare data. Each healthcare application vendor and system provider took a different approach. In response, most healthcare organisations implemented point-to-point connections or deployed on-premises data integration...