IT system procurement demystified: A guide from selection to implementation
ArticleDiscover how to select and implement the right IT system with this practical guide to healthcare IT procurement, vendor selection, and readiness planning.

To thrive in a changing world, healthcare companies need partners with global expertise. Preserving, protecting and improving life through their complex work, healthcare organisations must pursue both quality and innovation with relentless focus.
While they strive to provide ever-improving care, they must also contend with increasing pressures, such as:
To excel at what they do best, healthcare organisations need trusted partners to ensure their businesses run in an agile, efficient and responsible way.
Facing a growing, ageing population, healthcare companies must boost capacity, maintain quality, and manage costs. Grant Thornton offers practical, innovative solutions.
Health systems face ongoing M&A activity. Grant Thornton’s expert team supports healthcare clients with M&A advisory, valuations, and integration services.
Grant Thornton’s healthcare experts know the importance of efficient delivery and resource management. We have a range of services to support your transformation projects.

To meet the needs of a changing population, healthcare providers must embrace new technologies and new ways of working.
As a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading healthcare companies, we bring a disciplined approach and creative solutions—all based on our tested methodology, deep healthcare operational experience, and extensive risk and compliance work.
Strategic planning and design are central to maximising capacity across health services and developing more integrated health systems. Our multidisciplinary teams’ clinical experience helps them develop realistic, innovative strategies. They layer empirical analysis with a design approach, enabling you achieve true value for money.
Our team supports you through:
Our finance and strategic planning expertise includes corporate due diligence, cost accounting and decision support, and advice on bankruptcy and restructuring when needed. We also provide market and demand analysis, and long-term planning.
Scrutiny on healthcare spending is high. Rather than cut services, health sector organisations must find efficiencies and strengthen financial controls, particularly around staffing and controllable costs.
Back-office functions present an opportunity to improve productivity while lowering costs through outsourcing to high-performing teams. Our experienced team can deliver:
Data is a key asset, and managing it is fundamental to your organisation’s development. Effective data quality management increases data accuracy and helps you make data-driven decisions you can trust.
Our healthcare data experts can help you improve and monitor the quality and value of your data, giving you the confidence to drive operations, compliance and analytics initiatives. Our services include:
The healthcare sector is facing significant change because of demographic, organisational, resourcing and clinical factors. Future healthcare systems will need to be radically different to respond efficiently and equitably to forecasted demand.
Our multidisciplinary teams—who have extensive clinical experience—will advise on:
The changing face of healthcare brings constant integration and separation. Our global healthcare team has extensive experience advising on healthcare transactions with financial, operational and compliance due diligence—as well as assisting our healthcare clients with their own strategy, due diligence and integration.
We offer services across the transaction lifecycle, in areas such as:
Discover how to select and implement the right IT system with this practical guide to healthcare IT procurement, vendor selection, and readiness planning.
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