Reducing Shadow IT by embracing “good enough for HIPAA” horizontal cloud solutions

Shadow IT and Rogue IT is plaguing providers because existing legacy vendors aren't solving healthcare's major collaboration problems fast enough. This presentation covers why horizontal cloud solutions are very useful in healthcare even though they're not designed specifically for medical information use.

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1. Reducing Shadow IT by embracing
   “good enough for HIPAA” business-
   friendly healthcare cloud solutions
   Shahid N. Shah, CEO
   

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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
   

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   Some benefits are not so obvious
   Better security
   Safer
   deployments
   Enhanced
   collaboration
   Faster custom
   development
   Less
   experienced IT
   resources
   Better
   integrations with
   external systems
   Availability of
   younger tech
   resources
   

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   Cloud improves focus on the real customer
   Patients
   External
   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.
   

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   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.”
   

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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.
   

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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.
   

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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.
   

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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
    

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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.
    

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13. Thank You
    Visit
    http://www.netspective.com
    http://www.healthcareguy.com
    E-mail shahid.shah@netspective.com
    Follow @ShahidNShah
    Call 202-713-5409
    

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