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.

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
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Easier to pilot and
then scale to more
users
Fewer IT resources
required to
manage solutions
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3. NETSPECTIVE
Some benefits are not so obvious
Better security
Safer
deployments
Less
experienced IT
resources
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Enhanced
collaboration
Better
integrations with
external systems
Faster custom
development
Availability of
younger tech
resources
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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React faster to
regulatory and
market changes
Reduce
compliance-focus
in favor of customer
focus
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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
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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.
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13. Visit
http://www.netspective.com
http://www.healthcareguy.com
E-mail shahid.shah@netspective.com
Follow @ShahidNShah
Call 202-713-5409
Thank You