Healthcare-Specific Maturity Models Can Offer Key Guidance
Maturity models are helpful for setting expectations and driving communication between IT staff and leadership inside healthcare organizations by defining current states and desired future states of capabilities and maturity. Depending on what your organization is looking for, a simple, more informal model may be enough to communicate your strategic vision.
The HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity is one industry roadmap that can guide healthcare organizations. There are several others, and it’s up to healthcare organizations to decide whether they’re looking for external-facing recognition for having a certain level of maturity or if they just need internal guidance.
Maturity models are helpful, but organizations need to understand why they’re using which model, factor in any associated costs and clearly define their goals. Healthcare organizations that are just starting on their journey can turn to peers that have advanced in this area, because collaboration is integral to data maturity. There's value in seeking partners to help at every stage of maturity, from the basics and building out data science teams to specific advanced analytics and strategies for artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.
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