Headlines We Won ’ t See In 2017

By BILL REID Earlier, I offered a sarcastic headline view of the coming year.  Yet, underlying these headlines are some more serious issues that we as an industry have to address.  They may not happen this year, but we need to continue to make progress.  Wouldn’t it be awesome if for once we under predicted what will happen? Healthcare Organization Wakes Up In Strange Place, Reports Massive Headache Reality:  Many organizations are not quite sure what hit them – they have purchased and implemented a number of systems, sometime more than once, in the last several years and now are waking up to the reality that that might not be enough or even the right set of technologies for the emerging payment models.  Return on investment is hard to show, debt used to finance purchases along with stimulus funds are coming due.  System after system has had to report negative results on financial reports due to higher than expected costs, longer than anticipated implementations.  It’s enough to give any CIO a headache. Healthcare Interoperability Finally A Reality Reality:  Interoperability remains elusive despite ongoing talk and the creation of various coalitions.  Sometimes it seems that few want to actually solve the problem.  Healthcare organizations are afraid to lose patients to competitors.  Vendors are fighting for the last remaining market share, and aggressively seeking to displace others, and using local market coverage as a selling point.    Sure there are lo...
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