- Take another look at your application base’s strengths
- One of the most common potential savings most medical systems have is in their already installed application base. Over and over organizations purchase application suites with a very limited purpose in mind. They very often completely overlook the added features many of these systems have. This leads them to spend extra dollars on other applications rather then putting what they have to use. I have a first hand example from a medical center in Minnesota. They had purchased a system for enterprise content management. They liked the system, and had sunk ~$400,000 into its implementation and deployment. This same medical center decided they needed to be able to get EKG strips into their EMR. Rather than fully understanding the needs of their customers and fully understanding the features available from their enterprise content management system, they decided simply to purchase an additional system. They spent ~$180,000 on an entirely new system. This new system was certainly nice and did the job. However, they had no need to drop the additional dollars when they easily could have expanded the functionality out of an existing system. This is much more common than people realize. I believe this is the number one cause of financial waste from most hospital environments. Most facilities simply don’t have a good understanding of the systems they have already bought and paid for.
Take another look at your application’s strengths – Shawn Riley
Posted by Shawn Riley in Tuesday, November 25th 2008
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That is an interesting idea. I have seen this too.