Mergers and Acquisitions: A CIO To-Do List

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, and James Kuhn, Strategic Health Industry Advisor, CSC. Mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and health systems are on an uptrend. With such activity come challenges for healthcare IT departments, but also the opportunity to modernize and optimize the overall healthcare IT environment. Bringing health IT through such a transformation is both an art and a science. This presentation goes through some of the major issues to consider in working through a merger or acquisition, and presents a strategy for making the most of this time.