ViVE 2026: Turning Application Bloat into Scalable Financial Strategy

As health systems face unprecedented financial strain, many are discovering that a silent culprit is hiding in plain sight: bloated, outdated, and redundant applications quietly draining millions from operating budgets. Not surprisingly, Gartner’s 2026 CIO and Technology Executive research now ranks cost optimization as the number one priority shaping CIO agendas over the next two years.

At ViVE 2026,  Clearsense will join senior leaders from Trinity Health—one of the largest and most forward-thinking health systems in the U.S.—on the Palm Stage for a CHIME-curated case study session on enterprise IT cost optimization.

Case Study Session: IT Cost Optimization & Enterprise Strategy 
Monday, February 23 | 4:30 PM | Palm Stage

This session brings together Clearsense CEO, Jason Rose, and Trinity Health’s Mike Prokic, Chief IT Strategy Officer, and Nick O’Connor, CTO and VP of Product Engineering, for a candid discussion on how a repeatable, supply-chain approach to legacy application decommissioning can help organizations cut costs, reduce risk, and unlock capital for innovation.

Trinity’s results speak for themselves:

• Over 740+ legacy applications decommissioned
• Approaching $100M in recurring OpEx savings
• Reduced cybersecurity risk by eliminating vulnerable legacy systems
• Enhanced clinical access through active archiving
• Recognition from both Gartner and KLAS for the program's scale and success 

This isn’t a technical deep dive. It's a shift in mindset—moving decommissioning from a cost-center exercise to a repeatable, enterprise-level strategy that aligns IT decisions with board-level financial outcomes.

From IT Cleanup to Foundational Cost Organization 

Health systems are facing mounting financial pressure—from OBBBA-driven funding cuts to sustained labor and operating cost inflation—while many simultaneously anticipate increased merger and acquisition activity. In this environment, legacy IT inherited through prior deals can either accelerate integration or quietly erode deal value.

For Trinity Health, years of M&A created a long tail of redundant applications that had to remain live for data retention, operational continuity, or transition requirements—each carrying ongoing licensing, infrastructure, security, and support costs. What ultimately changed wasn’t awareness, but velocity.
“Archiving tends to be viewed as a commodity—the least exciting part of IT. But few realize that speed can be a true differentiator. If organizations understood how much value velocity creates, it would be viewed as one of the most attractive levers in the process,” said Prokic, Chief IT Strategy Officer at Trinity Health. 

That perspective matters as healthcare M&A activity rebounds in a capital-constrained environment. The longer redundant systems remain live post-close, the longer costs compound—often through extended Transition Service Agreements (TSAs). 

“When you look at the cost of an application—the cost of hosting, infrastructure, support, and how quickly you can archive it—a simple equation quickly shows where the highest return sits,” Prokic continued. “You might move a recently acquired system to the top of the list because it reduces the cost of your TSA.”

Taken together, Trinity’s experience underscores a broader point: application decommissioning isn’t just a post-merger cleanup activity. When treated as a repeatable, enterprise-level discipline, it becomes a foundational cost optimization strategy—one that reduces risk, restores financial flexibility, and creates capacity for innovation across the organization.

Let’s Talk Strategy

Clearsense will be available for one-on-one discussions throughout the event. If your health system is looking to reduce financial waste, undergoing a merger, or navigating digital transformation, this is an opportunity to continue the conversation and explore what a disciplined, repeatable decommissioning strategy could look like in your organization.  

Visit us at Booth #1741 or schedule a meeting with us using this booking link.  

We’ll share how health systems are using Clearsense to:

• Accelerate application retirement to permanently lower operating costs
• Reduce cybersecurity risk by retiring high-vulnerability “zombie apps”
• Preserve clinician access to historical data through seamless archive integration
• Support enterprise initiatives—including M&A and analytics—with clean, compliant data infrastructure

The tools are here.
The playbook is proven.
The opportunity is real.