Smart health care organizations are looking at the future. With rising costs and increased competition squeezing budgets and revenues, strategic planning today can save money and improve the quality of patient care tomorrow. Proper IT planning can help health care companies reach important goals, such as safeguarding patient information; giving dispersed care sites online access to unified patient profiles; reducing data-entry errors; and moving legacy applications to the Web.
Attachmate spoke with Mark Anderson, an expert on health care technology, about current issues facing the industry. According to Anderson, health care companies have four major areas of opportunity:
- improving IT operations,
- streamlining administrative processes,
- complying with new government regulations, and
- integrating merged or acquired companies.
For all of these, Anderson recommends that health care IT organizations look for solutions that are fast to implement, provide a quick return on investment, and leverage existing investments.
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