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title: 6 Key Reasons Why Hospital IT Outreach Projects Fail
description: Extending your Epic Community Connect technology platform to the community is different than all other IT projects. Here are 6 reasons why they can fail.
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# 6 Key Reasons Why Hospital IT Outreach Projects Fail

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 on February 5, 2015 at 1:34 PM

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### Here are six key reasons why:

## 1: Readiness

Just as the dust is settling after a long and grueling enterprise-wide deployment or optimization period and the IT department has regained its foundation, the organization asks to deploy the technology to community providers.

## 2: Control

**[Download](https://info.thehcigroup.com/epic-community-connect-6-key-reasons-why-hospital-it-outreach-projects-fail) the remainder of the Epic Community Connect White Paper that identifies all 6 Key Reasons Why Hospital IT Outreach Projects Fail.**

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