Strategic Information Technology Planning

A critical issue in healthcare today is the application of information technology strategies to support the changing business of healthcare. In today's healthcare environment, change is the one constant. Faced with ePrescribing, PQRI, and the many incentives associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, administrators are questioning how technology can help their business. Will you be prepared to meet today's challenges? Will your information technology infrastructure serve as a fly wheel making everything easier or will it act as a barrier to your hospital or practice participating in all of the incentives? Coker Group provides our clients with the ability to align information technology with business strategies to increase participation and accept today's challenges quickly and with flexibility. We accomplish this through a Strategic Information System Plan. Strategic Information Systems planning is the process of aligning an organization's business strategy with effective computer based information systems to achieve critical business objectives. Coker uses a defined methodology to achieve the Strategic Information Systems Plan:

1. Scope Definition
2. Business and Competitive Assessment
3. Present State Assessment
4. Information Technology Strategies
5. Organization Plan Develop change management
6. Applications Plan Define data and applications
7. Infrastructure Plan
8. "To Be" State Definition
9. Develop migration plan
10. Next Steps - Project Definition and Planning