From Trust to Use and Beyond Chapter Eight | Page 5

“If you were to say there are 10 top things that community
health systems are looking for, health IT is definitely in the
top 10, and probably in the top five.”
IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH IT STRATEGY
IN MERGER/ACQUISITION
If there’s one universal goal in Healthcare IT, it is to advance
“
collaboration through interoperability.
“ – Cristine Kao

Cristine Kao
Global Marketing and
Growth Operations
Director at Carestream
“Collaboration can only be possible when we can
tie silos of data together--into a holistic ecosystem.
Carestream has IT customers all over the world,
and if there’s one common goal of all the systems
we’ve installed during the past few years, it’s the
need to collaborate, the need for systems to com-
municate with each other. Regardless of the chang-
es in the U.S. healthcare discussion this is now, and
will be for the foreseeable future, the single most
important issue. Collaboration is the key to im-
proved outcomes, increased patient satisfaction,
production efficiencies and cost reductions. It is
the key to the future.”