Digital Transformation Promotes HIT Infrastructure Automation Adoption

Advancing HIT infrastructure technology calls for organizations to use tools to help IT staff with mundane repetitive tasks so they can spend more time innovating and planning for the future. This drive for simplified management through advanced technology is prompting organizations to adopt HIT infrastructure automation. While many other industries have transformed their business process through automation, the healthcare industry still lags behind on adoption, according to a recent HIMSS blog post. Organizations are having a difficult time aligning their health IT tools in a way that uses automation efficiently to improve workflows for clinician end users. Automation performs processes without human assistance and is a pre-programmed set of rules that follows a command to complete the next steps of a task. The technology works on the premise of “If X, then Y.” When “X” happens, then “Y” is allowed to happen.