INFRAM24: Measuring your IT strategy and ability to drive adoption and improve outcomes
Measuring your IT strategy and ability to drive adoption and improve outcomes
The world of health care is constantly changing, and technology is the spearhead of this continuous transformation. As organizations respond to the complexity of digital adoption, cybersecurity and sustainable operations, HIMSS’s Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM) has been updated to meet demand and guide leadership with data-driven insights and strategies. Cisco enables healthcare leaders not only to use INFRAM as an assessment tool, but also to drive change, mitigate risks, and ensure technology investments translate into improved care services and clinical outcomes.
New features of INFRAM
Recently, HIMSS has revised infrastructure to study not only infrastructure capabilities but IT strategies, assess technology adoption by internal stakeholders, and measure the direct impact of infrastructure investment on clinical outcomes and operations. Now, it allows organizations to understand whether their infrastructure capabilities meet their overall goals. This update takes a closer look at the effectiveness of technology investments and identifies opportunities for improvement.
New Infram Domain
The updated version of INFRAM introduces 5 key aspects of healthcare infrastructure:
- Cybersecurity: Data breaches occur more frequently and have a greater impact on patient care and hospital operations than ever before, INFRAM emphasizes building strong cybersecurity practices, leveraging AI (artificial intelligence) to recover quickly, and keeping organizations working to keep risks in line to minimize future risks. This field allows organizations to understand their current capabilities from network identity all the way to endpoint security to endpoint security.
- IT Management and Performance: System performance support and change management are essential to complying with service-level agreements. INFRAM helps leverage technology to mitigate incidents and maintain high service standards. This helps hospitals understand their current IT capabilities in transportation, wireless, collaboration and data centers, from location services all the way to their cloud usage strategies.
- use: Ensuring that innovative technologies are not only installed, but are integrated and optimized for efficiency is crucial. INFRAM ensures that patients, clinicians, staff, IT and leadership gain the full benefits of technological advancement.
- result: Perhaps most importantly, INFRAM provides a framework that aligns IT investments with clinical, financial and operational goals, ensuring a measurable contribution to organizational goals.
- Sustainability: Healthcare organizations are not subject to global calls for environmental responsibility. INFRAM helps develop strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint, thus aligning health care with green programs.
Benefits for healthcare leaders
Using INFRAM, healthcare leaders can:
- Measuring value: Use an evidence-based approach to investing, obtaining critical buys and gaining recognition of results.
- Analysis of gaps: Friction points and friction points in infrastructure development for tailored strategic investments.
- Cybersecurity risk planning and mitigation measures: Implement a positive, best-practice approach to cybersecurity and develop a clear plan of action in case of violations.
- Establish governance and drive adoption: Technical governance that ensures maximum value and supports care teams to deliver the best results.
- Drive Alignment-Infram provides a structured approach to assessing the infrastructure of a hospital, and Cisco can help ensure that it is aligned with the organization’s goals. This allows for cohesion between executive, clinical, operational and IT teams.
INFRAM24
INFRAM is more than just an evaluation tool. It is a strategic ally of technology designed to leverage technical capabilities to improve patient care and operational efficiency. With the continuous development of healthcare, INFRAM provides a structured pathway to confidently and clearly browse the complexity of digital transformation. For more insights on how basic fluids can enhance your organization’s technical infrastructure and improve business outcomes, please contact our CX Healthcare team today.
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