Hospital IT departments have a lot on their proverbial plates these days, as they work to help their health systems manage the minutia of meaningful use attestations, deal with the nuts and bolts of the ICD-10 changeover (so far, so good!) and strengthen defenses against data security threats that only seem to get more complex and vexing by the minute. To name just a few.
From quality improvement initiatives to the shift toward value-based care, hospitals depend on technology in ways unthinkable even five or 10 years ago, and IT department employees are essential to this new paradigm – working in earnest each day to keep health systems' nerve centers up and running.
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