Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve
Executive Summary
Peachtree is a successful and well-established healthcare organization with several institutions including hospitals, medical schools and clinics. With their broad market they have reached, they need to work on their IT system as the current system consumed so much maintenance time. They have several different incompatible IT systems in their organization amongst the institutions. Therefore Peachtree is looking or a reliable IT system to achieve their objective which is delivering efficient and effective healthcare services for their stakeholders.
Peachtree has considered several criteria for the new IT system such as flexibility within their network to accommodate all the requirements in different institutions. As the staff is the end users of the new system, Peachtree will need a system that will be enough for the staff to buy into their work.
Considering Peachtree management who wants to change the current situations and alternatives they have for the new IT system should make the organization strong enough to be prepared for future growth. There are also some risks associated with the alternate systems that may be measured for short and long-term growth. Strive to provide efficient and reliable healthcare services is Peachtree mission and objective to satisfy their stakeholders. Current situation
Peachtree mission statement includes to ensure the highest level of efficacy, economy, respect for patients and staff and to provide consistency and continuity of care across the entire organization.
As we know Peachtree’s current information system does not meet their business needs, every hospital has its own IT infrastructure with no standardization as an integrated organization.
IT department is spending so much on maintenance to run the IT infrastructures across all hospitals and clinics, and IT systems does not add value to Peachtree because they are not acting as a single institution with unified records.
However, Peachtree’s
Peachtree is a successful and well-established healthcare organization with several institutions including hospitals, medical schools and clinics. With their broad market they have reached, they need to work on their IT system as the current system consumed so much maintenance time. They have several different incompatible IT systems in their organization amongst the institutions. Therefore Peachtree is looking or a reliable IT system to achieve their objective which is delivering efficient and effective healthcare services for their stakeholders.
Peachtree has considered several criteria for the new IT system such as flexibility within their network to accommodate all the requirements in different institutions. As the staff is the end users of the new system, Peachtree will need a system that will be enough for the staff to buy into their work.
Considering Peachtree management who wants to change the current situations and alternatives they have for the new IT system should make the organization strong enough to be prepared for future growth. There are also some risks associated with the alternate systems that may be measured for short and long-term growth. Strive to provide efficient and reliable healthcare services is Peachtree mission and objective to satisfy their stakeholders. Current situation
Peachtree mission statement includes to ensure the highest level of efficacy, economy, respect for patients and staff and to provide consistency and continuity of care across the entire organization.
As we know Peachtree’s current information system does not meet their business needs, every hospital has its own IT infrastructure with no standardization as an integrated organization.
IT department is spending so much on maintenance to run the IT infrastructures across all hospitals and clinics, and IT systems does not add value to Peachtree because they are not acting as a single institution with unified records.
However, Peachtree’s