Targeting Perioperative Performance Aligned to Hospital Strategy via Digital Transformation

This study examines the digital transformation of a U.S. hospital’s perioperative process, which yields targeted performance alignment to strategy. Based on a 184-month longitudinal study of a large 1,157 registered-bed academic medical center, the observed effects are viewed through a lens of information technology (IT) impact on core capabilities and core strategy. The results offer a framework that supports patient-centric improvement and targets alignment of perioperative sub-process efforts to overall hospital strategy. This research identifies existing limitations, potential capabilities, and subsequent contextual understanding to minimize perioperative process complexity, target and measure improvement, and ultimately yield process management and hospital strategy alignment. Dynamic activities of analysis, evaluation, and synthesis applied to specific perioperative patient-centric data, collected within integrated hospital information systems, provide the organizational resource for management and control. Conclusions include theoretical and practical implications as well as study limitations.