Case Studies

Saint Luke’s updates telecommunications plan, realizing additional useful life of existing investments and defraying capital expenditures.

Akron General Health System develops project management office conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10.

Frederick Regional Health System evaluates Business Intelligence strategy and develops tactical plan.

STRATEGY

University Hospitals assesses progress toward MU, determines gaps, and completes tactical planning and preparation for attestation.
East Jefferson assesses its readiness for ICD-10 migration by performing a gap analysis and developing an implementation strategy and roadmap.
IU Health evaluates Personal Health Record approaches and products to prepare for MU, ACOs and Medical Home models.
MetroHealth defines future IT direction, guiding principles, governance and decision making, organization and management processes, and initiatives.
St. John jump starts ICD-10 readiness by establishing ICD-10 steering committee and defining high-level migration work plan.
St. Anthony's defines EMR strategy and selects clinical systems vendor to support enhanced care delivery processes.
East Jefferson refines sourcing strategy saving millions, with vendor assurances the software will meet Stage 1 MU requirements.
Longmont United evaluates IT roadmap and defines direction for advanced clinical applications, selecting core hospital information system vendor.
Good Shepherd evaluates IT strategic plan with short and long-term recommendations for an IT roadmap.
University of Colorado Hospital defines IT strategic plan to replace best-of-breed clinical and revenue cycle systems with an integrated platform.

Execution

University of Utah Health Care plans for implementation of EpicCare ambulatory in 82 specialty clinics.
Virtua leverages clinical informatics expertise to support workflow design, order set review and design, and change management for EMR implementation.
St. Anthony's achieves high levels of participation, momentum, and ownership of EMR implementation across constituencies.
University of Utah Health Care evaluates readiness for Epic revenue cycle go-live.
Fairview leverages seasoned PMs for dress rehearsal coordination and leading clinical applications teams through the build, test, and support phases for these go-lives.
St. Anthony's develops infrastructure roadmap to ensure support for new clinical computing environment.
Virtua implements Single Sign-On (SSO) to streamline clinical application access and improve clinician efficiency and the service provided to patients.
Virtua implements bed, patient, and asset tracking system to optimize care delivery and drive net cost savings.
Virtua deploys provisioning to an initial set of clinical applications and builds roadmap for future applications and functionality.
Virtua launches innovative women’s health portal with a personal health record (PHR) and personal health navigators.

OPTIMIZATION

IU Health develops a strong IT service management program using the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) methodology.
Saint Luke's builds IT cost allocation model incorporating near-term changes, longer-term factors, and trigger points for future changes.
Institute for Transfusion Medicine develops IT direction and leverages interim leader to implement the recommendations.