Regional Healthcare Provider Gains Control and Drives Integration Success
Overview
One challenge facing all healthcare providers nationwide today is the need for the seamless integration of healthcare information systems. This is true for a growing regional healthcare provider who found the workload, pace and complexity of its own integration challenges overwhelming, and they needed an experienced partner to make their integration happen.
To help achieve and sustain its goal of delivering high quality patient care and continue its dynamic growth and expansion, it was vitally important that the client improve its resource efficiency to ensure solid integration performance.
Based on its extensive experience with multiple resource healthcare integration projects, Core Health Technologies was called in to gain control and oversee the on-going optimization of the healthcare provider’s integration efforts.
Challenge
This healthcare provider operates more than 70 hospitals and 400 clinics in 15 states. As a result of this company’s aggressive growth strategy, many of the information systems within its facilities remained outside their integrated network. In addition, as part of its strategy and vision for the company, the provider plans to continue to introduce new hospital systems regularly into its network of facilities in the future.
To better manage and monitor the multitude of ongoing integration projects as well as the growing projects in their plans, the organization worked with Raleigh, N.C.-based Core Health Technologies to effectively manage the integration of the provider’s various hospital systems nationwide.
Solution
Core Health Technologies’ work began with the evaluation of all current integration projects and resources. Upon review of the evaluation, it was determined that Core’s consultant - a senior PMP certified healthcare integration expert with over 20 years of experience - would take the on-site lead in centralizing management of projects and resources for integration.
According to Core Health Technologies’ on-site consultant, the client was effectively executing on their significant list of integration projects, but lacked the oversight and control needed to increase efficiency and timeliness of that execution. The challenge was two-fold: 1) Assign resources in a manner to best align the skill sets and strengths of the team with the project demands and 2) Maintain a level of oversight and interaction that would drive and increase in efficiency of the team and maintain quality results.
Core Health Technologies’ project manager gained control of the project plans, organic and external resources, and relationships to unify the integration efforts within the organization.
Results
According to the healthcare provider, Core Health Technologies’ consultant led the organization’s integration efforts of more than 20 different HL7 projects professionally and leveraged his extensive experience to create an operation that is sustainable for the long-term.
About Core Health Technologies
Core Health Technologies solves healthcare organizations’ integration challenges. We build solutions by focusing on our clients’ true needs and are able to deliver solutions as a result of our tight focus on the specific technical skill discipline of healthcare integration, specifically HL7 and X12. Our consultants have been exposed to all facets of healthcare integration including the leading healthcare institutions. Our value is realized in our ability to be flexible and tailor a solution to a specific client need while delivering quality results in a timely manner.