Congratulations – Your consulting firm has just been hired to assist a large complex healthcare delivery organization with its health IT strategic plan. Unfortunately, their current plan and budget rapidly became outdated during the pandemic. The CEO asks your team to help create a more agile, dynamic, and tech-enabled approach aiming to strengthen organizational/financial health, retain/develop people, and best serve their patients and communities.
Mapping to Mission – Start by identifying strategic needs considering multiple stakeholders, including patient care, financial, public/population health perspectives, and the requirements of physicians, nurses, and staff.
ROI – Consider health information systems as an expense/cost and strategic investment and asset. Discuss strategies and create a value proposition. What would you contribute to the health IT budget presentation for the board?
Assess before you Treat – Conduct a needs assessment. Then, engage with multiple classmates to prioritize. Build on the best ideas of others. Develop solutions for your client. Share multiple roles. Who would you engage in this process?
Contribute actionable ideas. Need some new, fresh, relevant ideas that are working for others? www. Health Tech Discovery.com has lots of emerging practices to discover and share. Reference the lab to help strengthen your credibility and help you plan to be funded/have an impact.
Enrich your credibility by referencing course readings/resources and focusing on strategies and solutions.
