Health care IT top 10 challenges for 2017
- Quality reporting/regulatory requirements
Our research will focus on successful practices of organizations that exhibit high levels of quality reporting maturity via multiple programs, such as meaningful use and the Quality Payment Program. - EHR optimization and value realization
Our research will focus on how to optimize an EMR for specific outcomes such as improved clinical outcomes for common conditions, prevention and amelioration of sepsis and other infections, prevention of adverse drug events, reduction in use and costs of lab tests and pharmaceuticals, and more. - Interoperability and extended enterprise integration
Our research will focus on nascent interoperability standards with a focus on case studies and concrete progress towards seamless data exchange. - Population health management
Our research will focus on evolving methods and technologies supporting reductions in care variation, management of bundled payments, engagement of patients as consumers, and the influence of new interoperability developments on analytics for population health management. - Consumerism
Our research will focus on how to select, design, build, and implement solutions such as integrated search, price estimation and scheduling solutions, cost accounting systems, real-time patient feedback systems, and other systems and capabilities designed to improve the consumer experience and increase customer loyalty. - Telemedicine
Our research will focus on how to incorporate structures to reduce care variation across the continuum into telemedicine use models. - Business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics
Our research will update our guidance on BI best practices, with particular attention to the growing capabilities of application-tethered analytics, novel data warehouse architectures, and the growing application of advanced analytical techniques. - Information security
Our research will provide the latest insights and tools to advance your cybersecurity activities to more advanced stages of maturity. We will provide reports and presentations to help you engage leaders and provide assistance with audits, staffing, metrics, disaster recovery and business continuity, and the latest technologies and services. - IT performance and risk management
Our research will help advance your IT performance with tools, surveys, and insights into such opportunities as strategy, governance, staffing, process improvement, cloud technology, and intelligent computing. - Digital health systems Our research will include analyzing the potential impacts on organizational strategies and governance, addressing specific issues or opportunities such as for precision medicine and with blockchain, and highlighting successful uses of exponential technologies.
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