Healthcare organizations have an abundance of applications to support operations, administration, research and clinical workflows across departments. The sheer number of apps can lead to redundancies and vulnerabilities.
Modernizing a health system’s application infrastructure can improve workflow efficiencies and security while lowering management and maintenance costs. However, many healthcare IT leaders struggle with getting started.
IT leaders say they plan to spend 42 percent more, on average, on application modernization because it is seen as a solution to technical debt and a way for businesses to reach their digital transformation goals, according to the 2023 Gartner CIO Agenda. Despite the additional budget and intent to begin the application modernization process, many healthcare organizations can still face challenges such as a skill or staff shortage, a lack of team buy-in or processes to support the project, or perhaps not enough time or money to dedicate to the task.
While the challenges may seem insurmountable, application modernization is achievable in a shorter time frame with fewer resources than many health IT leaders would expect. With a strategic roadmap that prioritizes which apps to upgrade and creates data migration checklists — in addition to aligning application modernization with a healthcare organization’s business objectives, gaining stakeholder buy-in and working with a trusted partner— healthcare organizations can successfully navigate application modernization.
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