Winning the Contracting Battle over Technology Acquisition

Diane Carco, President, Swingtide and a key matrixed executive within Ascension’s The Resource Group, discusses IT contracting in healthcare. Maintaining control over technology acquisitions and vendor relationships has become a tremendous focus area for healthcare providers of all sizes.  Failing to control the technology acquisition process means risking overspending and underserving the caregivers for whom the technology is being acquired, putting protected health information at risk and squandering the benefits the new technology is there to deliver. Diane presents an IT contracting maturity model that illustrates the steps organizations can take to assess the current state of their IT contracting efforts and plan for systematic improvement.