A modernization framework for the leaders who own the vision, the risk and the budget.
Healthcare digitized decades ago and then, in many ways, stood still. Walk through radiology today and digital acquisition is the norm, while much of the infrastructure underneath it is a decade or more past its design life and no longer receiving security patches. That is the contradiction a legacy PACS sits at the center of.
Most organizations frame modernization backwards, asking what it costs to upgrade instead of what it costs to keep the old system running. This paper reframes the question, sets out what to evaluate before you modernize, and shows why modernization runs over several contract cycles rather than a single project.