What do you do when your hospital needs more functionality out of its finance software, but the acquisition of new technology is out of the range of your budget? It's a conundrum in which hospital CFOs and CIOs commonly find themselves.In lieu of issuing bonds and raising the capital for a new IT purchase, the answer must be that additional value has to be eked out of the existing system. That means mapping, patching over and, in effect, jury-rigging together a functional system using legacy programs. But is that really a negative?