By leveraging aligned interoperability partners, health systems can alleviate the inevitable pressures of IT personnel shortages and the strains that labor fluctuation puts on organizational technology transformation and growth.
The most effective way for healthcare leaders to support providers is to relieve operational and administrative burdens, and this should begin with the onboarding process.
Yusuf Qasim, President of Payments Optimization at Zelis, discussed how the company is transforming healthcare payments from a fragmented, patchwork system into a modern, digital infrastructure.
Leaders should be proactive about investing in IT to avoid costly issues in the future. Examine existing technology for potential risks and redundancies, assess system performance, and establish forward-looking goals and benchmarks.
The Medical Group Management Association found that physician-owned multispecialty practices spent $32,592 per full-time doctor on IT hardware, software, maintenance, staff and other needs in 2015, up 42 percent from 2009.