Application Rationalization Is Necessary Work, but Sometimes the Juice Isn’t Worth the Squeeze, Panelists Say

Zafar Chaudry, MD, former Chief Digital Officer at Seattle Children's, and Adar Palis, SVP of Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications at Providence, examine why health systems struggle to retire the applications they no longer need. They explain why usage counts mislead, how legacy tools widen the cybersecurity attack surface, and why a 20% reduction target often ends the fiscal year closer to 5%.