IT Strategic Planning
Many of today's healthcare organizations face
difficult challenges such as:
- needing assistance in defining an Enterprise
Architecture for your unique mix of applications
- will current systems meet the needs of your new health
enterprise, or the new ARRA requirements?
- does your current IS plan fit into your enterprise
operational plan
- what level of investment is required to create/acquire the
systems you need to support your community care model
what is the status of the your EMR or CPOE? Should you
rush into an EMR because of Obama's ARRA program?
Or is it better to wait and see?
ARRA Funding and Meaningful Use
We will conduct a complete review of your current IT
status and plans to meet ARRA requirements and
Meaningful Use standards, using our proprietary
assessment tools. Determine eligibility for bonus
payments and identify where adjustments in plans and
IT applications are needed to avoid penalties.
New Technology Issues
Are you looking at new technologies as a
possible solution. Are you trying to determine:
- how should new technologies fit into your plans? At what
cost? At what level of risk?
- What is SOA, SaaS and virtual server technologies?
Why are these tools gaining ground? How can they help
your facility?
- How can I use information technology to reduce
medication errors, malpractice liabilities, and most
importantly, improve patient care?
- Can I afford bedside and hand-held computing when
patient days are decreasing but outpatient volume is
growing? What about ambulatory care computing?
- What vendor systems are really using new technologies?
Which are just 'window dressing'?
- Is it realistic to develop your own applications? What are
the risks in undertaking a new technology project? How
can I minimize these risks?
- How can I leverage new technologies yet preserve my
investment in my legacy systems?
Healthcare Enterprise Issues
Many organizations are rapidly expanding their
range of patient care. Are you faced with:
- Each level of care: acute, ambulatory, LTC and home
health has its own unique needs. Is it realistic to try to
combine all these? Is there one system that can address
all, or how can we meld them together in a cohesive
system?
- How can I address the critical need to accurately identify
the same person across all care providers in your
community-based care system? How can I eliminate the
repeated registration/re-registration process required
each time the same person comes to a different locale in
my healthcare system?
- How can I tie-in our physician offices, not just for
registration, but for clinical data as well?
- Will my current information system be able to support
Medicare's push for P4P and Quality Indicators? How
will I deal with these? What should I be doing now?
- And what about 'meaningful use'...how can we meet that
criteria?
Operational Issues
Information technology budgets are rapidly
growing. Are you faced with any of these
concerns?
- How can you get your systems vendor to be more
responsive and reduce their charges?
- Should you be a beta site for your vendor's new
CPOE/EMR or other products?
- How can you measure development productivity?
- Will the new application development tools increase
productivity?
- Is your development proposal and time line realistic?
- What can/should you do with your old 'legacy' systems?
- Have you met project schedules on-time and on budget?
If not, why? How can you do better?
- When is in-house better than contracting out? What
about the ASP or SaaS approach?
If you are faced with any of these issues, TKG can help.
Email: TKG@kelzongroup.com
Call: 312-303-0577
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