Health IT: Not Just For The Big Guys

By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Health IT Outcomes

Like most healthcare technology publications, Health IT Outcomes has produced a ton of editorial focused on how the biggest hospitals and health systems are leveraging technology to increase efficiencies, cut costs, and improve patient care. This content has been well received, but recently, representatives from one contingent of our readership — community hospitals — have expressed interest in seeing more editorial featuring the technology strategies and best practices of small to midsize community/regional hospitals. For the most part, these conversations have gone something like this: “While I like reading about Cleveland Clinic, Orlando Health, and New York Presbyterian as much as the next guy, as a community hospital, I can’t always apply what these organizations are doing to my facility. I don’t have the monetary or human resources necessary to engage in IT projects of the same scale as larger hospitals. More editorial on the successful technology strategies of community hospitals would be something I could really relate to.”