Healthcare IT News January 14, 2019
While accountable care may be shifting some spending priorities, too few health systems of any type are thinking enough about how future changes will decide their IT needs, says Deloitte.
The hospitals most likely to invest in leading-edge technologies such as data integration, aggregation, reporting and analytics tools are those health systems already familiar with the demands of participating in value-based contracts, a new report from Deloitte shows.
But even more advanced investors, those with a clear eye toward what the future of reimbursement will require, have been slower to build out capabilities related to patient and provider engagement and other technologies related to core operational goals than might be expected, researchers said.
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