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Engineeringbeat: Fast-tracking mainframe modernization

Key health care modernization insights

Over the past 30 years, the health care industry has radically transformed with soaring spending, electronic health care records adoption, and longer lifespans. Yet, despite the changes, legacy mainframe systems still predominate at most organizations. As providers grapple with spiraling transaction volumes, the mismatch creates cost pressures and affects patient and provider experiences.

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Modernization strategies to tackle core business challenges

To tackle critical, core business challenges that have an impact on nearly every part of the health care continuum—those that inflate costs, affect patient and provider experiences, and hobble sustained growth—organizations should develop sound modernization strategies for their core legacy systems. Here are three that we’ve found most effective:

Three primary enterprise service delivery goals

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Reduce costs with creative funding approaches

Take advantage of ecosystem relationships, monetize platforms, and build modular systems to create—which can generate new revenue streams and reduce expenses.

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Leverage better data integration to improve care

Centralize data with cloud repositories and use application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate data for seamless legacy-to-modernized-systems connections—which can improve patient care and response times.

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Enable sustained growth with cloud capabilities

Create modular platforms and use plug-and-play APIs to enable better systems integrations for mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures—which can drive long-term growth.

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Modernize to compete today and build for the future

Health care modernization is imperative to address today’s challenges and prepare for the future. As the focus shifts from reactive disease treatment to promoting wellness, the current health care business model will necessarily evolve. Therefore, to enable agility, improve patient outcomes, and prepare for a wellness-driven future, the need to modernize legacy systems is critical. The time to modernize is now.

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