Balancing the Now, Next and the Future

As the world looks to rebuild in the aftermath of covid-19, healthcare leaders should consider how to build more robust and resilient health-care organizations using available technologies. Cloud technologies such AI, machine learning and other emerging tools can lay the foundation for establishing the resilient healthcare organization of the future; specifically in the areas of resilient supply chain, sustained financial stability and analytics and insights for coordinated and effective emergencies response and management.

In the Now response to COVID-19 Chief Supply Chain Officers CSCOs are challenged to identify, size and prioritize the short-term impact and implement an action plan to reduce risk and financial impact due to supply chain disruption; Next CSCOs should focus on building resilience into their supply chains based on new disruption scenarios and in the Future leading organizations are futureproof for the next disruptive event.

In parallel CFOs are adapting cash flow models for uncertainty and disruption; in addition, collaboration between Finance, and Clinical teams is becoming vital to avoid excessive strain on working capital. With the help of cloud technologies, hospitals of the future are capable of reinventing their business and clinical models rapidly. Cloud technologies provide the underlying analytics to assist decision makers with the proper insights, the ability to access systems from anywhere and at any time enables remote working, and alternative revenue streams can be instantiated almost instantaneously through remote consultation and telemedicine solutions.