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5 Ways in Which the Healthcare Sector’s Reliance on Legacy Systems Is Hurting Them

The healthcare industry has experienced a host of unprecedented yet welcome changes in the past three years. However, many of these innovative changes came with new challenges, the biggest being the industry’s widespread reliance on legacy systems. Here’s how legacy systems are actively impeding a healthcare organization’s ability to function efficiently: 1. Prevents organizations from...

5 Problem Areas in Supply Chain Systems That Immediately Require Modernization

The economic impact of COVID-19 has severely exposed the limitations of supply chains across the world and there are 5 key areas where legacy systems are hampering the quality of these supply chain systems: 1. Reliance on manual processes for decision-making and legacy tools like excel spreadsheets to manage logistic operations. 2. Data silos that...

Tech-driven Healthcare Is Here – Why Everyone loves It!!

80% of healthcare companies are planning to invest more in digital healthcare over the next 5 years. Here are 5 reasons why healthcare organizations have started favoring technology over all else: 1. Improved patient care by providing real-time patient data to doctors by using personalized devices like smart wearables and ECG monitors 2. Health-related information...

Why the Healthcare Sector Just Can’t Seem to Quit the Legacy Systems Habit

Many hospital systems maintain fragmented administrative, clinical, and regulatory information about medical records compliance and patient data. The Result? $1 trillion is lost in waste every year - that's a wastage of $1 for every $4 dollar spent by the US on healthcare. The gravest problems pertaining to this travesty arise within the confines of...

3 Reasons How Legacy Technology is Hindering Supply Chain Systems

Global supply chain systems are still reliant on a patchwork of outdated technology that struggles to meet real-world demand fluctuations. From inventory data still being tracked by excel sheets to age-old proprietary data collection systems that are costly to upgrade, legacy technology can only do very little to challenge and resolve bottlenecks within supply chain...

Re-Engineering Healthcare Legacy Systems: 4 Best Practices to Follow

In 2022, legacy infrastructure and age-old application monitoring tools are still being used by 86% of companies worldwide, especially by those in the healthcare space. But using and maintaining legacy tech is becoming a monumental struggle, one that companies are slowly realizing that they will inevitably lose. Therefore, it would be in their best interests...
Securing Legacy Systems in Healthcare: Maintain or Modernize

Securing Legacy Systems in Healthcare: Maintain or Modernize

Healthcare legacy systems such as outdated billing systems and disjointed laboratory information systems are still widely prevalent in most large healthcare organizations. Such legacy systems pose a huge security risk since they may contain patient-sensitive information and must be handled with a great degree of care or be outright replaced. To modernize these age-old machines...
Top 5 symptoms to watch for if Your Enterprise System

Top 5 symptoms to watch for if Your Enterprise System/Product is Entering a State of Legacy

In our experience of re-architecting legacy systems, culture is the catalyst that drives the system towards the legacy state. To determine the susceptibility of your own organization’s descent into the legacy, we suggest combat the fear of change by adopting a product mindset, shift gears from system maintenance to modernization and finally put a pin...
Top 5 Reasons that Puzzle Leaders to Decide for a Re-write of a Legacy System

Top 5 Reasons that Puzzle Leaders to Decide for a Re-write of a Legacy System

To help with this conundrum leadership teams must finalize a plan that satisfies the long-term objectives of the organization. To kickstart the plan organizations must help customers perceive the long-term value of the re-write by equipping employees with the knowledge required to pitch it to them in the best possible light. Once this is done,...

Top Five Strategies to Consider When You Can’t Re-Write your Legacy Systems

A system rewrite may not be viable either because the timing isn’t right or because it’s a matter of business case justification. But when a system rewrite is off the table, CI/CD can be utilized to streamline the code review process and continuously monitor the system's health. You can even go a step further by...
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