Like all business leaders, healthcare executives are increasingly faced with strategic and operational challenges that are dependent in part on information technology. This technology has become the source of both our biggest problems and greatest hopes. When applications have grown incrementally without a solid grounding in business objectives, they are incomprehensible and an impediment to change. When integrated with business and elegantly designed, they simplify and improve work.

At DCS GLOBAL, we focus on understanding the business context of a particular transaction, set of transactions or objectives and then identifying policies, habits and technology which drive delivery.

How do these interact and where is there most opportunity to improve? How can we increase productivity without sacrificing quality? How can we drive consistency and standardization, but provide flexibility for addressing exceptions and constantly changing rules and demands?

How can we create, define and transform seemingly abundant data into meaningful and timely information for running daily operations, managing performance and helping with business strategy? How can we best solve a particular problem in isolation or through integration across multiple business functions, divisions or even between internal and external entities? How can we design changes that are embraced by end users rather than resisted?

These are in essence business challenges, not simply technical assignments for the IT division.

We believe that automation, while significant, is not a panacea. To be effective in addressing strategic and operational goals, solutions need to be built on meaningful business processes and a realistic cultural context that involves organization, policy and workflow.

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