With the recent rise of telemedicine and the expansion of remote collaboration, the borders of healthcare delivery have stretched beyond hospital walls. Patients can consult specialists through virtual visits, and bedside nurses can receive support from virtual nurses.
Making all of these digitally connected services work are likely a dozen or more applications running behind the scenes, whether it’s an integrated video communications platform or a data analytics tool calculating available beds.
But there may also be a dozen or more applications that are not being used, are no longer supported or lack interoperability that are still taking up space in healthcare organizations’ ecosystems. What’s more, issues such as shadow IT– which can include applications that are deployed outside an organization’s typical IT processes – are added risks to an already saturated system.
So, what can healthcare organizations do to address concerns about redundant and legacy applications, or even useful ones that are not operating at peak performance? As they continue on their digital transformation journeys, they’ll need to modernize their apps and begin the process of app rationalization, which can ultimately find cost savings and help improve patient care.
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