IT Strategy

Solutions | The Road Map | Vision | Contact

We can help you transform the way you interact with patients, physicians, payers, employees, suppliers, and institutional partners by developing an information technology strategy that integrates your business planning initiatives, optimizes current technology investments, incorporates new information management technologies, complies with regulatory reforms (e.g., HIPAA), and fosters the reengineering of key clinical and business processes.

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Superior Solutions

Unlike traditional technology-centric approaches to information management and e-health, we focus on business transformation, applying our extensive experience in the health care industry to help you:

• Align your information technology strategy with your business processes
• Avoid pitfalls that result from the pursuit of “fads” and ensure that IT initiatives are focused on the areas of highest “real value” to the organization
• Address targeted areas of improvement, remove barriers to optimal care delivery, and enable care providers to work more collaboratively and efficiently
• Enhance quality of care and support patient safety
• Increase customer, employee, and physician satisfaction
• Discover and benefit from the successes of other organizations and industries
• Strengthen financial results

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The Road Map

The information technology strategic plan serves as a “road map” to guide capital investments over a multi-year period. Alternately, we can provide a “second opinion” regarding your current information technology strategic plan, projects already in the planning stage, and/or perform return on investment analyses. We can also assist you with plan implementation including tactical planning, vendor selection and contract negotiation, clinical transformation management, applications delivery, and systems integration.

Development of an information technology strategic plan begins with the collection of baseline data on your current environment — recent and planned investments in information technology, new medical equipment, and infrastructure upgrading; current market strategies and business plans; operations restructuring initiatives; opportunities for Web-based solutions; and the impact of regulatory reforms (e.g., HIPAA). We gather input from organizational leadership using individual interviews, focus groups, and data collection questionnaires and typically conduct an initial educational retreat.

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Vision

We then help you create a vision for the future and reach consensus on investment priorities and information technology strategies for all major constituencies including patients, physicians, payers, employees, suppliers, and institutional partners. Importantly, we focus on aligning these strategies and investment priorities with the immediate, short-term, and long-range goals of your organization. Finally, moving from alignment to action, your information technology strategies are translated into a detailed phasing/implementation plan that identifies specific projects, time frames, expected results, budget, resource needs, and organization (management and governance). This comprehensive and realistic action plan, or road map, becomes a “living document” that will guide your organization’s investments of dollars, time, and energy related to information management over a multi-year period, incorporating new technology, e-health opportunities, and regulatory compliance.

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Contact Us

For more information about our information technology strategic planning capabilities, contact Stephen Smith at (800) 781-0960, Ext: 8413 or to send him an e-mail.