Post on 07-Feb-2017
Reducing Shadow IT by embracing
“good enough for HIPAA” business-
friendly healthcare cloud solutions
Shahid N. Shah, CEO
NETSPECTIVE
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Many cloud benefits are obvious
Faster
implementations
Better usability and
capabilities
(consumer friendly)
Easier to pilot and
then scale to more
users
Reduced capital
expenditures
Fewer IT resources
required to
manage solutions
NETSPECTIVE
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Some benefits are not so obvious
Better securitySafer
deployments
Enhanced
collaboration
Faster custom
development
Less
experienced IT
resources
Better
integrations with
external systems
Availability of
younger tech
resources
NETSPECTIVE
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Cloud improves focus on the real customer
PatientsExternal
HCPs
Internal
business
users and
HCPs
IT
Personnel
Unsophisticated and
less agile focus
Sophisticated and
more agile focus
Inside-out focus Outside-in focus
HCPs = healthcare providers
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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.
NETSPECTIVE
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Case study: Reduce heart failure readmissions
Allocating scarce resources in real-time to reduce heart failure readmissions: a prospective, controlled studyhttp://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.”
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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.
NETSPECTIVE
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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.
NETSPECTIVE
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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.
NETSPECTIVE
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Cloud enables healthcare to be agile
Improve speed of
response to new
patient/HCP needs
Reduce permission-
oriented culture
React faster to
regulatory and
market changes
Reduce number of
Shadow IT systems
Reduce
compliance-focus
in favor of customer
focus
NETSPECTIVE
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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
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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.