title: Sharing the IT pain.
abstract: Outsourcing info tech is too appealing a temptation for many hospitals to pass up. Information technology is costly, complex, prone to breakdowns and ever-changing. Many hospitals already outsource part of their IT operation, but there appears to be a trend toward outsourcing entire departments. Recently, a number of deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars were announced by some of the nation's largest systems and outsourcing companies. While outsourcing is the best alternative for certain operations, for others it may just be a trade-off between a short-term headache and long-term pain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haugh
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D020416:Outsourced Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States