Are hospitals and health systems today relying more on the skills of IT vendors?

In the last decade, physician practices, hospitals and health systems have hired IT vendors to manage their equipment, update business and clinical software, and support their clinicians and staff with tech problems.

Those services typically were all that was expected and needed, so IT was considered just another vendor on the organization’s balance sheet.

Much has changed, though. While healthcare’s goals of managing illness and injury are largely the same, the industry’s technology needs are immensely different and more critical …