Accelerating Decision-Making in Healthcare: How Health Systems Choose Innovative Solutions – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Bruce Brandes from Lucro Solutions on the topic of “Accelerating Decision-Making in Healthcare: How Health Systems Choose Innovative Solutions”.

To be competitive in today’s digital healthcare economy, providers, hospitals and health plans need to leverage existing and emerging products offered by a growing base of vendors. But the healthcare market is saturated with products and services with new vendors entering the market seemingly every day. The people involved with identifying and selecting appropriate products and services become overwhelmed by all that’s available. Cutting through the noise and separating the wheat from the chaff often results in scars when vendors oversell their offerings and ultimately under-deliver on their promises.

To be able to execute faster on innovation in healthcare, those charged with identifying, selecting and implementing healthcare products and services must filter the universe of shiny things and make better decisions faster. Mistakes can be costly. In the instance of certain products or services, mistakes could be fatal; literally.

In this tweetchat, we’ll explore topics related to the discovery, organization, collaboration and prioritization of healthcare products and services offered by vendors based on defined strategic initiatives and the healthcare organizations that purchase, implement and use them.

Join us on Friday May 12th at 12:00pm ET as we discuss the following questions on #HITsm:

The Questions
T1: How do you define and align organizational priorities for which you seek #HealthIT solutions? #HITsm

T2: How can you filter the “noise” to discover and evaluate #healthIT vendors relevant to your priorities? #HITsm

T3: What’s more efficient way to collaborate w/ trusted colleagues to support your decisions regarding #HealthIT products/services? #HITsm

T4: How do you leverage the scale and experience of your organization to drive standardization and “de-risk” decisions? #HITsm

T5: What type of vendor content, materials & actions help you reach a decision in the most expedient manner? #HITsm

Bonus: What are the advantages and disadvantages of your RFI / RFP process? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
5/19 – Patient Education Using Healthcare Social Media
Hosted by Anne Zieger (@annezieger)

5/26 – TBD
Hosted by Chad Johnson (@OchoTex)

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always let us know if you have ideas for how to make #HITsm better.

If you’re searching for the latest #HITsm chat, you can always find the latest #HITsm chat and schedule of chats here.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

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