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alan
cullop

CIO,
DaVita Kidney Care
more and better information so they can
spend less time on discovery and more
time on care. The only hitch: The company's

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existing clinical systems didn't support this
level of engagement and information sharing,
and there were no packaged solutions out
there either.
"The systems we had were designed
around the facilities and capturing specific
events and charges," says Alan Cullop, CIO
of DaVita Kidney Care. "They didn't address
the patient continuum or experience." Cullop
and his team spent 18 months looking for an
off-the-shelf product, but everything they
saw had been built to be facilities based. This
left the option to "boldly go where no one
had yet commercially gone," says Cullop,
developing the systems themselves based
on new data models and what was being
done in industries with more of a consumer
focus. The only way to pull this off was with

But one thing is clear. Four major shifts
that result from the digital transformation of
business are driving the trend toward deeper
and more strategic IT partnerships.
IT Inside. First and foremost is the degree
to which information technology is baked
into organizations' business and operating
models. For DaVita Healthcare Partners,
a nearly $14 billion provider of a variety of
healthcare services, that meant technologyenabling and intensifying the company's
patient-centric approach to health care.
Technology has made possible a new level
of patient engagement, including via mobile
devices. And it has facilitated connections
among all of the people and organizations
on the patient continuum - doctors, nurses,
facilities, and the patients themselves. It
provides caregivers with easier access to

a combination of existing and new internal
resources supplemented with some critical
external expertise.
Healthcare isn't the only industry
experiencing big shifts. Agriculture provides
an even more dramatic example. "We're
taking an industry that's been around for
thousands of years and, over the last half
decade, transforming it radically," says Jim
Swanson, CIO at Monsanto.



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