Steps on Leveraging Cloud-Based Technologies to Grow Your Healthcare Business

Once your laboratory has determined that you are ready to standardize your laboratory with next-generation cloud-based solutions to improve operational efficiencies  and position your organization to seamlessly address the new challenges of IT, here are the 5 steps you can take to guide you through the vendor selection process.

1. Stick to True SaaS Solutions and Focus on the Benefits
   • As you implement your cloud-based software strategy, focus on vendors that offer what you need as their core competency.  Be sure to ask the vendor if they are a “TRUE” SaaS solution, by asking if they are a multi-tenant solution.
2. Reach out and Research
   • Attend webinars, request on-site visits for demos and analyze the benefits and the trade-offs. Gather information on the specific application of the solution for your lab. Get references by going to the vendors’ current clients and ask them questions, document it and go back to them for clarity. Listen to hear how they use the solution, you might learn something along the way.
3. Find a Trusted Partner
   • The right vendor is truly a partner with you. They will deliver best practice techniques and develop the solution to provide needs for what is best for all in the industry.
4. Don’t Customize it, Configure it!
   • It is okay to accept “off the shelf” software, since off the shelf software created by a best in breed vendor is likely first class to what you have today. And remember, you don’t need to customize, as that is difficult to maintain. Just configure! Cloud-based vendors can help get you what you need by using tools, changing setting and making slight configuration adjustments.
5. Make the Choice
   • Once you select and choose a vendor, implement the solution and test it before full launch. Rely on internal super users to assist with final configuration of the solution and the internal launch.

For more information, click here to learn about how XiFin Customer, Fritz Gartner, CEO, Applied Diagnostics, has leveraged cloud-based technologies to grow his laboratory business.