Clinical Transformation

Hospitals and medical groups face unprecedented pressures to reduce costs, enhance revenue, and improve quality. These “staying in business” objectives cannot be met without accurate and timely data, so progressive providers are moving rapidly to install clinical information systems (CIS). Successful CIS implementation requires process re-engineering across the organization, from the registration desk to treatment areas and all points in between.

The comprehensive, coordinated process of changing care delivery is called clinical transformation. Given current realities of the marketplace, health care organizations do not have the luxury of deciding whether to undertake clinical transformation. Rather, the question is when and how to do it. ACS Healthcare Solutions has the answer…

Clinical Transformation Management

Clinical Transformation Management is a structured, culturally sensitive process to redesign work flows, implement best practices, and adopt technologies that integrate resources and standardize operations in support of specified improvements in clinical, operational, and economic objectives.

ACS Healthcare Solutions’ Clinical Transformation Management process is carefully designed to avoid the problems historically associated with implementation of clinical information systems, including computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medical records (EMR), and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). Studies show that risk of failure increases with the size and complexity of the implementation project.

The ACS HCS Clinical Transformation Management solution involves physicians and nurses throughout the process and proactively addresses the cultural challenges that so often lead to failure. The results of ACS HCS Clinical Transformation Management can be measured in:

• Higher quality of care and better outcomes
• Enhanced work environment for health care personnel
• Lower costs for producing specified levels of care
• Better charge capture, cost recovery, and revenue cycle

For more information about our Clinical Transformation services, contact us.