Application Management Services What, Why, and Who For?

Tim Smith, Principal, and Chris Davis, Director, Healthcare Technology Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Tim and Chris discuss trends and perspectives on the evolution of outsourced application services for healthcare providers, providing an informative look at the changing landscape of services for managing and hosting applications, and addressing questions such as: What are the types of services most commonly desired by provider organizations? What are the range of services available in the market, and who is providing them? What are the emerging or innovative services? What are reasons to consider – and not consider – using AMS? Do AMS’s tend to vary by size of the healthcare provider? Are current industry dynamics (HITECH, ICD-10, etc.) “changing the game” for AMS’s? And, what are key questions to address when evaluating or buying AMS’s?