### Application Portfolio Management

# Decrease risk, increase savings

Application Portfolio Management (APM) streamlines and upgrades enterprise applications to align with clinical, operational, and financial goals.

## Simplify your application environment

Many hospitals and health systems juggle 1,000+ software applications, with some being outdated or underused. This is especially true for organizations undergoing mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

With Nordic’s deep healthcare expertise and Clearsense’s advanced data platform, we provide the tools and guidance to clean up, manage, and optimize your applications. This allows you to cut costs, improve data access, strengthen security, and create a smoother experience for staff and patients.

## Solve key challenges and drive results

Unused, duplicative, and outdated applications pose a risk to healthcare organizations and increase costs. Nordic’s APM service helps you enhance performance, security, and agility while reducing costs and tying your tech stack to organizational priorities.

| CHALLENGE | How we Solve It |
| --- | --- |
| **Bringing together separate application environments during M&A activity** | Comprehensive application review to identify duplicates and simplify |
| **Cybersecurity threats** | Application analysis to discover risks and solutions |
| **Limited bandwidth to support all applications** | Recommendations on how to best manage applications and support your IT team, whether by sunsetting, updating, or leveraging outside help |

## Impact that improves operations

From planning to implementation and ongoing support, Nordic and Clearsense help you reduce app complexity, stay secure, and focus on delivering better care.

### Strengthen security

Develop a plan to sunset or update risky applications.

### Cut costs

Eliminate unused or duplicative applications to uncover savings.

### Improve data access

Streamline applications to make data cleaner and easier to leverage.

### Increase IT team bandwidth

Simplify application environments to enhance focus and save time.

### Prepare for M&A

Analyze environments to identify duplicative applications.

## Why choose Nordic for APM

As technology continues to evolve, the list of software applications used by hospitals and health systems is quickly growing. Without analysis and strategic planning, a bloated application environment can pose operational risks, increase costs, and drain IT team resources.

With Nordic and Clearsense’s APM service, you’ll unlock faster decision-making, better customer experiences, and more intentional use of IT resources across your enterprise.

## Reduce complexity, focus on care

- Blog

### [Application portfolio management: What healthcare leaders should think about before M&A activity begins](https://nordicglobal.com/resources/application-portfolio-management-what-healthcare-leaders-should-think-about-before-ma-activity-begins/)

- News

### [Clearsense and Nordic announce strategic collaboration to deliver turnkey application portfolio management for health systems](https://nordicglobal.com/resources/clearsense-and-nordic-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-deliver-turnkey-application-portfolio-management-for-health-systems/)

- Podcast

### [Designing for Health: Interview with Doug Turner, MBA [Podcast]](https://nordicglobal.com/resources/designing-for-health-interview-with-doug-turner-mba-podcast/)