Information Technology Performance Assessment and Benchmarking
Like other industries, today’s healthcare market requires cost-effective and business focused delivery from IT. No one can afford to spend ineffectively. Spend too little and risk losing competitive ground and hard-to-find talent. Spend too much and never see the expected ROI.
Impact Advisors’ Research and Analytics team studies trends and best practices in healthcare technology and produces industry research, focused reports, and benchmarking studies. Impact Advisor’s IT benchmarking services can provide interpreted, meaningful operational, staffing model and financial performance metrics relative to:
- National healthcare benchmarks (i.e., HIMSS, AHA, Gartner)
- Client-specific cohorts (i.e. geography, facility size, prime vendor)
- Historic and projected performance
- Other industries technology investments, resources, and priorities
These findings can assist clients in assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of their investments in technology solutions and resources. They offer insight into opportunities for improved capital investing, changes in operational spending and/or staffing models, and other refinements which can help organizations advance in the market.
Specific assessment components include, but are not limited to:
- IT capital and operational spending as a percent of revenue and/or as a percent of organizational spending
- IT spending per FTE, per bed, or other static measure.
- IT staffing as a percent of overall staffing, and the distribution of IT staff relative to like healthcare organizations