Reducing Shadow IT by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” horizontal cloud solutions
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The document discusses the advantages of utilizing cloud solutions in healthcare, emphasizing improved security, increased usability, and reduced reliance on IT resources. It highlights that the cloud significantly empowers clinical users, allowing them to achieve tasks previously impossible with legacy systems and fostering agility in response to patient and healthcare provider needs. Additionally, it warns against the prevalence of shadow IT and underlines the importance of a pragmatic cloud strategy that balances business functionality with consumer-grade usability.
Reducing Shadow IT by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” horizontal cloud solutions
- 1. Reducing Shadow IT by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” businessfriendly healthcare cloud solutions Shahid N. Shah, CEO
- 2. NETSPECTIVE Many cloud benefits are obvious Faster implementations Better usability and capabilities (consumer friendly) Reduced capital expenditures www.netspective.com Easier to pilot and then scale to more users Fewer IT resources required to manage solutions 2
- 3. NETSPECTIVE Some benefits are not so obvious Better security Safer deployments Less experienced IT resources www.netspective.com Enhanced collaboration Better integrations with external systems Faster custom development Availability of younger tech resources 3
- 4. NETSPECTIVE Cloud improves focus on the real customer Inside-out focus IT Personnel Outside-in focus Internal business users and HCPs External HCPs Patients Sophisticated and more agile focus Unsophisticated and less agile focus HCPs = healthcare providers www.netspective.com 4
- 5. The most important benefit of the cloud is that it allows point of care clinical users to accomplish tasks that they can’t perform with legacy solutions. www.netspective.com 5
- 6. NETSPECTIVE Case study: Reduce heart failure readmissions Allocating scarce resources in real-time to reduce heart failure readmissions: a prospective, controlled study http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2013/07/31/bmjqs-2013-001901.full “This study provides preliminary evidence that technology platforms that allow for automated EMR data extraction, case identification and risk stratification may help potentiate the effect of known readmission reduction strategies, in particular those that emphasize intensive and early post-discharge outpatient contact.” www.netspective.com 6
- 7. The most important benefit of the cloud is that it allows point of care clinical users to accomplish tasks that they can’t perform with legacy solutions just weren’t possible before. Without asking for permission for every experiment. www.netspective.com 7
- 8. NETSPECTIVE Clinical tech users are resourceful Clinical professionals that are counted on to save lives do not always wait around for solutions, they create them. The cloud can empower them. www.netspective.com 8
- 9. NETSPECTIVE Shadow IT is prevalent & growing • When they only had access to MS Office, “Shadow EHRs” were created using Word, Excel, and Access. • In the cloud era, they pick consumer-grade and least-secure options when you don’t give them reasonably secure options instead. www.netspective.com 9
- 10. NETSPECTIVE Cloud enables healthcare to be agile Improve speed of response to new patient/HCP needs Reduce permissionoriented culture Reduce number of Shadow IT systems www.netspective.com React faster to regulatory and market changes Reduce compliance-focus in favor of customer focus 10
- 11. NETSPECTIVE Most important cloud considerations • Business-grade functionality with • Consumer-grade ease of use • Auditable with easy to use notifications (reduce permissions requirement) • Workflow-independent • Platform-independent • Device-independent www.netspective.com 11
- 12. Your cloud strategy is successful when its activities are pragmatic, fit for purpose, and almost as useful to HCPs and patients as their consumer-grade tools. You’ve failed if you haven’t created a framework for rapid and adaptable clinical decision support and medical records accessibility. www.netspective.com 12