Altera Digital Health: Leveraging the Cloud to Address the Needs of Rural and Community Hospitals

Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. However, with smaller pools of talent and fewer resources, they need more help from their digital partners to address those challenges. Altera Digital Health (Altera) is leveraging the cloud to help this important customer segment. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Pratt, MD – Chief Medical Officer for Paragon at Altera Digital Health to learn more about the company’s efforts for rural and community hospitals. Outsized Impact Right from the start of the interview it was clear that Dr. Pratt is deeply passionate about rural and community hospitals. He pointed out that the challenges faced by this market segment are not unique, but those challenges have an outsized impact on smaller organizations. “People forget that these community hospitals are doing everything a large hospital is doing,” said Dr. Pratt. “They are just as complex an organization.” Dr. Pratt cited three challenges that have a big impact on rural hospitals: Maintaining staffing levels – clinical as well as non-clinical Managing IT infrastructure – costs for equipment & services don’t change based on hospital size Financial constraints – aka revenue Dr. Pratt wrote about these three challenges in an earlier article posted to the Altera’s website. Leveraging the Cloud The Paragon team at Altera have been working with rural and community hospitals for over 25 years and are very f...
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