Sixty percent of hospital CIOs have been directed by their boards or finance committees to suspend certain IT projects amid the government shutdown, Black Book Research found.
Until cash visibility improves, the IT chiefs have been ordered to halt enterprise analytics and data lake expansions, platform updates, non-revenue-critical cutovers, and TEFCA onboarding, according to the market intelligence firm’s ad hoc poll of 107 healthcare technology leaders.
Meanwhile, revenue-protecting IT services — such as cybersecurity, denials prevention, patient access, and prior authorization automation — continue, often being resequenced to deliver more immediate cash impact, per the Oct. 31 report.
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