HealthMay 08, 2025

Enabling better decisions to help balance cost and quality

For modern health systems, enabling better decision-making across the enterprise can help meaningfully impact operations, ROI, clinician satisfaction, and patient outcomes.

The healthcare industry is undergoing massive changes. Health systems are under pressure to provide higher-quality care and better outcomes while addressing massive budget challenges and staffing shortages. Leaders have to navigate business decisions toward balancing the budget while not sacrificing care quality.

Many clinical information solutions promise to navigate this balance—quality information for the right price. Choosing the right resources for your organization requires analyzing the different ways decision support solutions can improve care as well as other areas of your business for long-term gains. Considerations can include:

  • Understanding the clinical foundation for information solutions.
  • Analyzing how improved care generates returns in cost savings, such as reduced length of stay.
  • Identifying additional cost-saving benefits, like time saved and ongoing medical education.
  • The value of building a long-term technology partnership.

Download the overview below and learn more about solutions from UpToDate® for enterprise health systems.

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