6 Lessons From a ‘Rent-a-CTO’
Healthcare providers face increasing pressures to comply with regulations, integrate operations after mergers and acquisitions, and move to value-based care…
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Sally, Sally, Sally—Gone, But Not Forgotten
Over the past month, VertitechIT has put the focus on healthcare consolidation courtesy of our sister company, akiro. As one of the healthcare industry’s more unique and innovative M&A transaction consultants, akiro specializes exclusively in healthcare transactions by bringing decades of valuation and compliance experience together under one roof. This blog, “Sally, Sally, Sally—Gone, But…
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Your Healthcare Merger is Destined to Fail (Unless You Read This First)
So what is it that healthcare executives (and just about every CEO in every industry) continue to get wrong? Some blame culture rejection, unrealized synergies, the inability to operate as…
DetailsThe Infrastructure Adoption Model: Identifying Your Leaky Pipes
It All Starts With Plumbing. Electronic Health Records, population health, data analytics, telemedicine, and other healthcare technology initiatives are directly reliant on the agility, security, and operational efficiency of the technical infrastructure on which it sits. Planning for future scalability takes strategic and tactical know-how. And to benchmark where a health system is on its…
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High Times for Healthcare M&A
Monty Hall would be proud. The ultimate dealmaker could look to the $316B in 2018 healthcare M&A activity and see that it is more than double the same period a year ago. As insurance, pharmaceutical, technology, and traditional healthcare companies get in the act, the downward pressure from government regulators, shareholders, and patients to provide…
DetailsOut of the Fog: Managing Shadow IT in Healthcare
When I think of Shadow IT, I can’t help but imagine Humphrey Bogart, Claude Raines, or some other nefarious looking guy in a trench coat looking out from the fog. What happens in the shadows sooner or later comes to light. That’s not a bad motto for CIOs in healthcare organizations who may be dealing…
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