
Rigorous Change Management and Vendor Management in Healthcare
In light of recent outages, let’s go back to basics and reexamine best practices for change management and vendor management in healthcare. Healthcare Change Management Discussion An appropriate change management program is one of the pillars of maintaining a robust, resilient, and secure IT environment in healthcare. This program should be governed by a team of multi-disciplined professionals who can ascertain and scrutinize the impact of changes being introduced into the healthcare production environment. What do we mean by “changes”? Anything being added, subtracted, or altered in the production IT environment is a change. The smallest faulty change to this environment can