The Top 10 Tech Trends that affect health care organizations and providers. Includes organization considerations and optimum implementation timeline. (Source: Health Data Management)

1. Gartner’s Top 10
Tech Trends
through 2015

2. Trend
Why is it a trend?
Considerations for Health Care
Organizations
Optimum Implementation
Timeline

3. Trend
Tablet
Computers

4. Why is it a trend?
Latest devices have a
high “cool factor.”

5. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• Determine security guidelines
and use profiles
• Build integration timelines
• Shop for vendor support

6. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Critical implementation
timeline is 2012
through 2014

7. Trend
Infinite Data
Centers

8. Why is it a trend?
Denser racks with
higher performance
means technology is
getting smaller.

9. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• Utilization levels and compute-
to-energy ratios critical by 2013
• Retaining organizational
footprint dictates logical growth
without physical growth

10. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
2013 through 2014

11. Trend
Resource
Management

12. Why is it a trend?
Increased awareness in
energy use, compute-to-
consumption ratios and
key performance indicator
(KPI) consumption.

13. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• Energy management needs to
become an enterprise-level
discipline
• Requires energy management
information systems

14. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
By 2017

15. Trend
Mobility

16. Why is it a trend?
“A seamless shift
between computing
and communicating.”

17. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• PCs and mobile devices are different
• Security remains a challenge
• Device variability makes portal
platform building difficult
• Clouds and smaller datacenters are
making mobility doable

18. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
By 2015

19. Trend
Hybrid
Clouds

20. Why is it a trend?
More than 60 percent
of IT cloud adoption is
redeployment of
current technology.

21. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• There will be a growing shift to use
private and hybrid cloud operations
• Deploy only after public services
have been integrated with private
delivery
• Make sure there is a valid business
reason to migrate to the cloud

22. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Through 2013

23. Trend
Fabric Datacenters

24. Why is it a trend?
Integration of common IT elements
(E.g. monolithic servers, storage and
networks) enables faster
component replacement or
substitution and better service
response with optimized workloads.

25. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• IT needs will become increasingly
integrated
• Practices should seek single-
database practice management and
EHR operations
• Will lead to any-to-any virtual
connectivity for resource sharing

26. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Through 2015

27. Trend
IT Compatibility

28. Why is it a trend?
Organizations are seeking
to get the most out of IT
money invested.

29. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• Understand Glass’s Law: “For
every 25 percent increase in
functionality of a system, there
is a 100 percent increase in the
complexity of that system."

30. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Through 2015

31. Trend
Big Data = Big Problems

32. Why is it a trend?
Big Data is static and
organizations are seeking
to connect the ability to
manage data and use data.

33. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• The longer you ignore “Big Data,”
the worse it gets
• Evaluate data input and eliminate
duplication for consistency and waste
elimination
• Segment and prioritize core data
needs

34. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Through 2015

35. Trend
Bye-Bye
Service
Deals

36. Why is it a trend?
Real-time service is
expected and “crowd-
sourcing” is becoming
prevalent.

37. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• Build transitions strategies
such as super-users to address
decreasing services desks
• Enable a proactive business
productivity team

38. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Through 2015

39. Trend
Virtual-and-Software-
Defined Networks

40. Why is it a trend?
Increased automation and
agility coupled with simplified
design and policy-
based/network management.

41. Considerations for Health
Care Organizations
• There will be an increase in
change of processes and
interactions
• This includes patient
interaction through systems

42. Optimum Implementation
Timeline
Through 2015

43. Source
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com

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