Revenue & Operational Impact
This operational drag compounds into measurable business impact. Every hour a clinician waits for VPN access or Epic login credentials is an hour lost to patient encounters, directly reducing throughput and billable RVUs. Routine, automatable L1 work eats the bulk of IT labor hours, leaving insufficient capacity for security incident response and infrastructure hardening - a critical gap in an industry attackers target relentlessly. Claims denial rates climb when clinical documentation delays stem from system access problems, and readmission risk increases when care coordination tools sit offline.