There are a number of challenges facing the healthcare industry today: rising unemployment leading to a growing number of uninsured patients is stressing provider budgets, inability to use data to identify efficient treatments and enhanced quality of care due to prorietary formats/interfaces, rise of chronic disease treatment which is accelerating costs, and clinician productivity being hampered by an ever increasing complexity of healthcare IT systems.
- "...between impending government requirements to the ever-present financial considerations, healthcare is squarely in the middle of a press for resources."
How Might Technology Benefit Healthcare, Today?
The healthcare industry is taking advantage of technology but with the economic challenges hitting all sectors of the economy, healthcare capital budgets are also feeling the pressure and are being stressed. How might the industry benefit given these concerns? One way would be to better leverage their existing investments as well as exploring new capabilities at low risk with a technology leader--a leader like IBM. In real terms this has practical applications in:
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 | MRTAS for Health Plans Learn about how text analytics can be leveraged to address current challenges facing healthcare industry. Download (8.8MB) | ||
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 | Areas Where jStart Can Help. Our 'start small, grow fast' approach is low risk and accelerates time to value. Specific jStart technologies which can be used to address healthcare needs:
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| Healthcare Innovation Discussions. This workshop's purpose is to help identify which of our solutions (or components of them) can be leveraged to address business needs unique to our clients. Schedule a Discussion. |
| Healthcare Innovation Workshop. Provides a basic healthcare solution to address data integration needs, analysis of very large datasets, or telepresence technologies. This option is best suited for customers who are ready to start a small pilot. Schedule a Pilot. |
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Low Risk: Start Small, Grow Fast Shrinking Windows of Opportunity
By leveraging the proven jStart model, clients can mitigate risk by starting with a small prototype, and then grow that solution into a production system, allowing the client to test potential solutions before committing significant resources. Historically, jStart has found that this process allows its clients to understand their challenges in concrete terms, and allows clients to discover additional opportunities for efficiencies and optimizations which may not have been apparent at the outset.
With the increasing pace of change pressuring the industry, the opportunity for healthcare to "get ahead of the curve" has an incredibly short runway: between impending government requirements to the ever-present financial considerations, healthcare is squarely in the middle of a press for resources. jStart can help. With our "start small, grow fast" model, the team can help identify the most pressing needs, provide an initial prototype implementation at low cost, evaluate and validate that implementation, and help you create a production system. Sound interesting? Contact jStart today.
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