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Optimizing the Hospital Data Center, Leveraging IT Outsourcing to Increase Efficiency and Flexibility

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Challenge: Clinical Integration  

Content provided by AHA Endorsement partner: CareTech Solutions, Inc.

Learn how partnering with a full service solutions provider could allow you to optimize data center performance and improve efficiency, flexibility, care quality and reduce costs.



Today’s healthcare chief information officers (CIOs) are often managing a veritable mash-up of legacy, in-house, home-grown, server- and cloud-based systems, usually sitting on an aging infrastructure. They must balance resources and budgets to ensure they are delivering and continuously optimizing all of the services their customers need. With the shift to electronic medical records, they must deliver applications 24/7 to ensure high-quality clinical care.

While there are some large health systems that have the resources to optimize, manage and support all their data center needs with internal staff, many hospital CIOs are taking advantage of increasingly sophisticated outsourcing options that allow them to order from a virtual a la carte menu of solutions. As hospitals IT leaders adapt to changing reimbursement and value-based care models, many are choosing to outsource some or all of their IT environments. Partnering with a full service solutions provider allows them to optimize data center performance and improve efficiency, flexibility, care quality and reduce costs.