More than 90% of healthcare C-suites are exploring cost savings via outsourcing. With outsourcing proving itself as an effective way to reduce costs while still managing necessary organizational needs, healthcare organizations are increasingly…
When it comes to sourcing and procurement management within healthcare, the process may seem straightforward: identify a need, evaluate and decide on the solution(s) needed, and fill the need. But as any healthcare executive knows, things are rarely…
When you think of digital transformation within healthcare, what comes to mind? Perhaps artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs that have improved diagnostics — or advanced technology and machine learning that personalize medicine and care for…
Healthcare IT outsourcing is rising in popularity and usefulness, and for good reason. According to 2022 survey data from Black Book research, the most pressing drivers of IT outsourcing, other than cost, include:
Lack of skilled IT professionals…
Managing and reducing costs in healthcare remains a top concern for most healthcare teams. Meanwhile, demand for health IT outsourcing is growing — and for good reason. Health IT outsourcing is often touted as a way to reduce costs and scale teams…
While outsourcing IT in healthcare provides clear benefits, from cost reduction and improved services to better caregiver experiences while navigating privacy and compliance matters, there are also risks involved. The proper way to mitigate these…
With healthcare organizations firmly committed to reducing costs while delivering higher quality care, healthcare IT outsourcing has risen as a premier option for support, offering optimal benefits with minimal management.
Historically, IT…
Healthcare IT outsourcing has seen a significant surge in usage and applicability in recent years. During the height of the pandemic, healthcare teams found themselves stretched thin to not only care for sick individuals in person, but also remote…
Outsourcing makes sense amid rising costs and a persistent talent shortage. Healthcare is just the latest industry to make use of third-party providers to accomplish more for less. In fact, the U.S. healthcare IT outsourcing market is expected to…
During the pandemic, IT organizations incurred large amounts of technical debt. In 2022, a top priority for many of these organizations is technical debt reduction. Technical debt is a growing drain on IT budgets and productivity. It accumulates…
Looking back 20 years or more, data center space posed a significant challenge. Not only did large legacy platforms such as mainframes, AS/400s, and UNIX systems consume space, each Windows instance required a separate physical server — and those…
Historically, outsourcing has been considered a “my mess for less” strategy. The request for proposals (RFP) and contract processes had the client prescribing exactly what they wanted and how they wanted it. There was little effort given to ask…
The two sides of IT are illustrated in the following two sentences:
Great job, IT; you weathered the COVID storm and the scramble toward newly dispersed teams.
Bad job, IT; 78% of you garnered more technical debt during the pandemic.
Will 2022 be…
This year, the average IT budget increased by 3.6%, which may not sound like much, but Gartner recognizes it as the largest increase in a decade. But before you start waving around the corporate credit card, it’s good to gain perspective on what’s…
The past two years have been a boon to digital transformation. As IT teams scrambled to adjust to new work models, digital transformation plans accelerated. Now, with the breathing room to reassess the state of IT infrastructure, comes the…
Modern technology architectures require new operating models for addressing the human element. Business tech is evolving — again — with a more pervasive computing style rooted in systems integration. What are the latest strategies to improve your IT…
Most C-suite executives would acknowledge their companies are facing enormous systemic upheaval in 2022. Technology iterations, staffing shortages, supply chain disruption, and increasing consumer demand come together in what some would call a…
IT teams can be forgiven for feeling a little weary these days. With the constant drumbeat of digital transformation, the remote work scramble, multiplying cybersecurity threats, talent shortages, and supply chain disruptions, the last two years…
Today, the “I” in “CIO” stands for “innovation.” In 2022, CIOs will be called upon to embrace “future fit” flexibility for their technology and innovation initiatives, IT teams, and the enterprise itself. The concept is rooted in increased agility…
Like the technology that is their purview, the role of chief information officer (CIO) continues to change. It now incorporates more innovation and strategic acumen than at any other time in the history of the job description. How has the CIO…
IT financial planning for 2022 is analogous to navigating uncharted waters, but IT initiatives remain critical to business success even as staff shortages affect IT strategy. With business as usual still out of reach, and financial planning more…
Budget planning and approval can get tense when goals and strategies are misaligned — which is business as usual between IT and finance executives. CIOs are wary of CFO pushback, and CFOs are skeptical about the value of IT initiatives. When finance…
In the past, the CFO has acted as stop gap for IT projects deemed outside the scope — and budget — of the enterprise. But the recent rapid acceleration of digital transformation has brought IT and finance together to create a better budget process…
For your IT sourcing efforts to be successful, they must be strategic. This requires the proactive exploration of your organizational needs based on a defined business case. In the past, the lowest bid would often get the contract. Today, having a…
Cloud computing is trending. Companies big and small are using cloud-based digital products for everything from sales and logistics to inventory management and daily business activity. Cloud computing services can offer high-quality solutions at…
If you’re an IT professional, the chaos and disruption of the past two years may have you approaching next year’s budget planning with something akin to dread. Digital technology has more than proven its worth in the scramble to make remote work…
A decade ago, Forbes suggested we were approaching “the end of the age of outsourcing,” and they could not have been more wrong. Today, the growing cost of labor, a shortage of IT and engineering expertise, and the rise of software-as-a-service (…
Managed infrastructure has a new player. IBM’s big news — a spinoff of their managed infrastructure division, dubbed Kyndryl — effectively splits the company in two. IBM claims the move will create a more agile, resilient, and secure service…