Parrish Aharam

There is a constant debate between health system leadership about how much to invest in IT. On one side, there is concern about the organization’s ability to maintain or increase investments in light of tight margins and increased margin pressure. Alternatively, others believe that lowering the investments will negatively impact the value delivered by IT and reduce its ability to enable the organization’s strategy.

Today’s health plans face a unique combination of technology challenges due to their complex IT environments. These environments serve multiple business functions, consist of large application portfolios, and have significant custom- development needs and steep quality requirements. In order to deploy new functionality in these complex environments, large-scale updates to multiple systems, or integrated software releases, are necessary. Integrated releases are challenging and, if not… Show more

Today’s health plans face a unique combination of technology challenges due to their complex IT environments. These environments serve multiple business functions, consist of large application portfolios, and have significant custom- development needs and steep quality requirements. In order to deploy new functionality in these complex environments, large-scale updates to multiple systems, or integrated software releases, are necessary. Integrated releases are challenging and, if not coordinated properly, can affect delivery schedules, cost, and quality, as well as potentially lead to legal and regulatory issues. Strong release management can improve the quality of production releases and reduce the risk of schedule and cost overruns. Show less

Identity management has become a priority for healthcare organizations as they rely on technology to support operations and care delivery. HIPAA privacy, technology audit requirements, and the increase in users requiring access to multiple systems is driving the need to streamline the user provisioning process (automating and tracking user setup). Quicker and more accurate granting of user access rights to various IS applications increases IS efficiency, improves service, and decreases the… Show more

Identity management has become a priority for healthcare organizations as they rely on technology to support operations and care delivery. HIPAA privacy, technology audit requirements, and the increase in users requiring access to multiple systems is driving the need to streamline the user provisioning process (automating and tracking user setup). Quicker and more accurate granting of user access rights to various IS applications increases IS efficiency, improves service, and decreases the reliance on IS security administration to perform these time consuming tasks. This article is Part II of the Identity Management series and focuses on user provisioning. The intent is to assist healthcare organizations with planning and implementing this important initiative. Show less