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Assortance came about
Read more As our name implies, the Assortance business model is designed to assist your IT department with support and maintanence. For a fixed monthly fee you have access to a team of people with a broad skill set and deep knowledge. We are able to provide support with anything from tedious tasks to complicated projects.
Clients prioritize and assign tasks according to their needs and together we determine the delivery date. This allows our clients to accurately budget time and expenses.
Once a new information system is installed though, finding someone to maintain it can become especially problematic. Recruiting and retaining talented IT staff is difficult for all hospitals, and harder still for lower-paying small hospitals outside of metropolitan areas.
Outsourcing can help, to some extent. “But beware: There are vendors who say they’ll be there shoulder to shoulder with you to service that information system, but once you’ve installed that, their accessibility becomes very difficult,” says the AHA’s Supplitt. “ 'Doing your homework’ doesn’t even begin to convey the degree to which small and rural hospitals have to research these vendors and these systems.”
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