While technology plays a key part in helping healthcare systems become more efficient, more scalable and better able to integrate services and engage customers, it’s rapidly evolving pace often presents a problem.

According to the Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development, “Healthcare tools and delivery models must keep up with the development and convergence of the Internet, digital devices, portable technologies, artificial intelligence, and social networking, while ensuring security and privacy. Since the rate of technology innovation regularly outpaces the ability to integrate it meaningfully into operations and care delivery, healthcare organizations often struggle to prioritize investment and determine how technology enables long-term goals. Consumers, based on their experiences outside of healthcare, expect quick and intuitive interactions." 

Importance of Evaluating Your Hospital’s Lab Tech Stack

The burden of this development provides a good reason to evaluate your hospital lab’s tech stack every year. When you have a tech stack that is fully optimized for the needs and goals of your hospital lab, your lab will operate more efficiently, leading to greater profitability. 

Understand Your Lab’s Technology Gaps 

To better understand how to optimize your lab’s IT solutions, you’ll want to start with an assessment that will identify opportunities to increase productivity and profitability. Are processes out of date? What gaps in day-to-day processes could see improvement with the use of additional technology? Does your technology facilitate communication across multiple teams and departments? 

Answering these questions will provide a roadmap to the technical solutions your lab needs to succeed and provide the highest quality care for your patients while also remaining profitable.