For Immediate Release
Contact: Tracy Hartman
thartman@aloftgroup.com
978-462-0002 x103
Services to assist senior healthcare leadership with the actions they need to be taking now to capture the future Medicare/Medicaid incentive payments
WEYMOUTH, MA – April 2, 2009 – “Are you shovel ready?” is a question that most healthcare organizations can’t answer affirmatively in relation to their preparedness for the stimulus funds they can capture from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners today unveiled its ARRA Stimulus Services to help healthcare organizations formulate a roadmap for an ARRA strategy.
“The ARRA may have more impact on the US healthcare community than any other single initiative,” says Ralph P. Fargnoli, Jr., president and CEO of Beacon Partners. “The biggest mistake healthcare organizations can make is not taking the steps now to become prepared to maximize their incentive payments.”
“There is a lot of uncertainty out there right now as to meaningful use, certification standards, and how to best put together an overall plan,” says Russell Branzell, FCHIME, FACHE, FHIMSS, and vice president of Beacon Partners, who along with Kevin Burchill, Esq. and director at Beacon Partners, is heading up the ARRA stimulus services effort. “Beacon Partners’ program will help you become shovel ready by assisting senior healthcare leadership in formulating an ARRA Roadmap that will lead to ‘meaningful user’ status and help in determining the maximum incentives available to your organization.”
“Our approach also consists of five critical success factors that healthcare organizations need to successfully prepare and implement a plan around the ARRA,” continues Branzell. Beacon Partners’ critical success factors include: Strategic Direction, Physician Alignment, IT Adoption, Economic Incentives, and Market Forces. “If healthcare organizations don’t have all of these success factors working together, they are not in the best position to succeed moving forward.”
Beacon Partners ARRA services include:
- ARRA readiness, planning and education
- Strategic planning and education workshop
- IT Strategic Plan assessment
- ARRA Readiness Roadmap
- EHR search and selection
- ARRA funding analysis
- EHR Implementation
- Implementation planning
- System assessment and optimization
- Implementation and upgrade assistance
- Project management
- Clinical workflow analysis and re-design
- Change management
- EHR Privacy and Security
- EHR privacy and security review (to ensure compliance with new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) provisions)
For more information on Beacon Partners ARRA Stimulus Services, please visit their HIMSS booth #4416, contact 1800-4BEACON x7419, or visit http://www.beaconpartners.com/services_offerings/arra_stimulus_services.htm
About Beacon Partners
Beacon Partners coaches organizations in the Healthcare Community on the development of strategies that maximize Enterprise Yield™ – the alignment of people, processes and technologies. To achieve top levels of performance, a healthcare provider must factor strategic direction, physician alignment, economic incentives and overall market impact. Beacon Partners has proven that focusing on these critical success factors will strengthen an organization from its core outward and improve the patient experience.
Beacon Partners, the only firm in the industry that provides a satisfaction guarantee, has offices in Boston, San Francisco, and Toronto, and is one of the fastest growing privately-held firms in healthcare management consulting. Please visit http://www.beaconpartners.com and Beacon Partners’ special healthcare information portal, http://www.spotlightonhealthcare.com.
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