Many of the IT departments in small and midsized health systems, however, lack the experienced CIO or CTO level leadership in order to successfully define and then integrate an IT strategy into the system’s strategic vision. Making matters worse is the high cost of recruiting and retaining an experienced full-time healthcare technology leader.

Much like its interim CxO solution, HIT Advisory Group’s Virtual CIO and Virtual CTO (vCxO) programs offer access to a seasoned healthcare CIO/CTO, but without the high cost of a full-time salary plus travel and living expenses. This “fractional” CxO employment arrangement allows organizations to access high level CIO/CTO expertise via a flexible and cost-effective delivery model. Organizations can contract for only as many hours as they need and the vCxO can primarily work remotely, coming on-site only when requested in order to further control costs.