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Perspectives on healthcare technology, enterprise transformation and technology leadership, with every figure linked to its published source.

Data worth knowing

70%

of US hospitals could find, send, receive and integrate outside data in 2023, up from 46% in 2018

Source: ONC data brief, 2023
71%

of US non-federal acute care hospitals used predictive AI integrated with the EHR in 2024, up from 66% in 2023

Source: ASTP/ONC data brief, 2025
29%

of those enterprise applications are actually integrated

Source: MuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark, 2025

Latest insights

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A hospital selection committee comparing options around a table
Five questions to answer before you select an EHR

Physicians spend about 16 minutes in the EHR per outpatient visit. The most useful selection criteria come from your own workflows, not a vendor's feature list.

A doctor reading a risk alert on a workstation beside a patient bed
Useful healthcare AI sits inside the workflow

71% of US hospitals used predictive AI inside the EHR in 2024, but only 37% of independent hospitals did. What matters is where a clinician meets the output, and what happens next.

A young man reading his test result on his phone on a train
Designing a patient record that people will open twice

77% of US adults were offered online access to their records in 2024, and 59% now juggle more than one portal. The opportunity is one record that answers simple questions.

A hospital corridor with staff moving between departments
Virtual clinics after the pandemic: what lasted, and why

Urgent virtual visits grew 683% in about a month at one US health system in 2020. The lasting lesson is about the design of the visit, not only the video call.

Employees in a candid conversation in an office kitchen
Transformation fatigue, and what leaders can do about it

Only 16% of respondents in a McKinsey survey said their transformation improved performance and sustained it. People stop believing in change when it arrives without visible benefit.

An architect comparing workloads on a screen
Not every workload should move to the cloud

An estimated 29% of cloud spend is wasted, and 84% of organisations struggle to manage it. A good strategy says as clearly what stays as what moves.

A finance lead and an architect looking at an application map
897 applications, 29% connected: architecture people actually use

The average enterprise manages 897 applications and has integrated only 29% of them. Architecture earns its place by helping someone make a decision this week.

A programme sponsor reading a status report in a quiet meeting room
The honest status report

Large IT projects run on average 45% over budget and deliver 56% less value than predicted. Reporting cannot fix that alone, but it can reveal trouble in time.

Enterprise EHR Migration Readiness Checklist

A practical PDF for hospital leadership, IT and clinical teams, to use before issuing an RFP or signing a contract. It covers governance, clinical safety, data migration, integration, security, hosting, training, go-live and exit.

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