Setting The Bar High
The INFRAM is fast becoming the HIT gold standard. As shown by a recently released report of survey results. HIMSS Analytics just released…
And the results are in: The INFRAM? It works!
The INFRAM, a follow-up to the industry-leading EMRAM certification process (EMRAM creates standards for EHR adoption), measures infrastructure stability and manageability in the areas of…
The 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…
The Quest for the Ring in HealthcareIT
One deals in bats and balls. The other manages bits and bytes. But when it comes to using statistics to drive organizational change, New York Yankees’ General Manager Brian Cashman and Temple Health Interim CTO Michael Feld couldn’t agree more. Cashman and Feld recently spoke to an audience of healthcare IT leaders in New York…
Key Items for Your IT Assessment Checklist
While the weatherman might not agree, spring has sprung and with it, the inevitable look behind that door that has been shut for months… the one where “I’ll deal with that later” has gone to hide! For those of us in IT, spring cleaning must go far beyond a hardware and software review. A proper…
Turning IT Into a Strategic Asset
What Would Your IT Department Do With an Extra Half Million Dollars? According to a recent Moody’s Investors Service, “U.S. Not-for-Profit Hospital Medians” report, the average American healthcare institution has a modest 2.7% operating margin. Said another way, a hospital puts only $2.70 to the bottom line for every $100.00 in revenue. With ratios like…
Hyper-Convergence: Simple, Scalable, and Centralized
Baystate Health CIO Joel Vengco says VertitechIT’s approach to hyper-convergence has been a game changer at his institution.
Spring Cleaning. The Perfect Time for an IT Assessment
Here in the northeast, a good dose of early spring rain is helping to wash away what we hope will be the last vestiges of snow and winter. That fifty-degree liquid sunshine is enough to get us all thinking about cleaning out the garage and getting things together for some summer fun. But what’s so…
“IT Infrastructure Design: Failure Is Not An Option”
What do the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission and your next IT infrastructure design project have in common?