To maintain peak efficiency, health systems and hospitals need to clear out underperforming, duplicate and legacy apps and platforms. That’s not an easy task. Hospitals sit atop an IT infrastructure that keeps the EHR and all other tech platforms functioning smoothly. But what happens during an upgrade, a change of vendors, or when an app needs to be removed? Mike Prokic, FACHE, VP and Chief IT Strategy Officer at Trinity Health, says there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes that clinicians and patients don’t notice. And that’s intentional. If the system is buggy, care can be compromised. Trinity recently partnered with Clearsense to clean up those back-office operations. That partnership helped Trinity decommission more than 740 redundant apps and platforms, saving the health system $68 million in annual costs. “It worries me that not enough people know about how big of a differentiator this is,” he says. “It’s the least attractive thing in IT and yet it has so much potential and cost savings and can help offset the financial burden every organization is inevitably facing right now.” Setting the Stage The project took place alongside a wide-scale Epic implementation and the end of a three-year renewal cycle of a major vendor contract. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(“dfp-ad-hl_native1”); }); “That was hundreds, if not thousands, of applications for us,” Prokic says. “That was the catalyst for the investment.” Prokic says leadership first sat down and mapped out all the applications to be affected, then looked for redundancies and legacy tools.…
