Once upon a time in a land far, far away, some top industry consultants got together with some gallant healthcare executives to drill down into ways to make their IT investment more responsive, delivering measurable value. This is an excerpt from that story. Could you benefit from the lesson at the end?

This is the beginning and middle of the story. It’s an article from McKinsey & Company’s industry-specific authors focused on applying “Lean IT” to healthcare.

“In our experience, it’s often possible to increase IT productivity by 20 to 40 percent through the application of lean and to reduce the delivery time of new applications and functionality by 10 to 30 percent through more rapid iterations. As a result, lean not only reduces IT costs directly but also enhances revenues by accelerating the deployment of digital technologies.

In many respects, the IT department of a typical healthcare provider is similar to the IT functions of companies in other sectors. Each IT team deals with the common challenges of keeping servers running, rolling out new applications, and supporting end-user devices, such as PCs, tablets, and smartphones. And delivering data that supports the range of C-level responsibilities from strategic planning to supply-chain logistics in a changing clinical services and payment landscape.

So, as we have reported here in a number of earlier posts and comments, hiring is one of the toughest decisions most healthcare provider face in staffing their IT teams. And closely aligned is the need to have the analysts focus on prepping and evaluating the massive data that is aggregated, from inside and outside data sets, so that it can be leveraged into both short and long-terms planning excellence.

Lesson; wherever that healthcare provider is along their path of preventions, patient engagement and revenue life-cycle management, they are aware that expedited delivery of usable data comes more readily when they choose to outsource data integration to talented teams of specialists.

If you want a very quick, real-life story that epitomizes what outsourcing can do to unclog the information and decisions-making pipeline, take a look here.

We can help you monitor your predictive tendency trends, measure progress toward a set of quantitative goals or flag emerging shifts in your patients’ health challenges or your financial operations. Call us to start a neutral and friendly conversation that can enhance your lean IT strategy and data management investment while you make savvy asset management decisions. Just call us – 512 478 3848.