Leveraging Managed Services to Reduce Healthcare Organizations Long-Term Ownership Costs

Healthcare organizations overburden their IT staff when they task them with keeping mission-critical applications online while also expecting them to find time to drive innovation initiatives. At the same time, recruiting and retaining talented health IT professionals has increasingly become a challenge for healthcare facilities across the country. Managed services allow organizations to offload routine IT tasks and ensure they are getting the maximum value from their investment in their own IT team. Today, managed services should add value to a healthcare organization’s operations. It no longer means simply outsourcing an entire IT department or an entire IT infrastructure. Healthcare organizations are increasingly picking specific data centers and services to move to managed services, allowing them to quickly redeploy their staff to focus on new initiatives targeted at improved revenues and better outcomes.