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For Immediate Release
Contact: Tracy Hartman
thartman@aloftgroup.com
978-462-0002 x103
Beacon Partners to provide Scott & White assistance with project management and application leadership for its GE Centricity implementation
WEYMOUTH, MA – December 1, 2009 – Healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners, Inc. today announced that they have been chosen by Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare to assist in a $12 million enterprise revenue cycle project that will involve providing assistance with project management and application leadership for its GE Centricity implementation.
“We will help Scott & White achieve a successful implementation of GE Centricity by providing them with our hospital/physician revenue cycle experts along with experienced GE application leaders to assist them through this critical transition,” explains Ralph P. Fargnoli, Jr., president and CEO of Beacon Partners. “We look forward to partnering with this highly respected healthcare organization.”
“We chose Beacon Partners for their depth of experience and scope of knowledge across large, integrated medical centers, and, in particular, their ability to blend optimal workflow into systems design and implementation,” says Duncan Campbell, Executive Director, Revenue Cycle Operations at Scott & White Healthcare. “We look forward to partnering with them to develop a model platform within the industry that will promote efficient and seamless processes across the organization, and, most importantly, optimize the patient experience throughout the Scott & White system.”
Beacon Partners’ engagement with Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic has just begun and the project is expected to last for 15 months.
The Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic, began its rich history over 100 years ago in the late 1800s. As decades passed, Scott & White has combined that heritage of healing with the future of hope, expanding to over 25 regional clinics, serving over 2,000,000 in the Central Texas Region. Recognized as a 100 Top Hospital in Cardiology, and also as a Top 15 Academic hospital, Scott & White combines more than 800 physicians and scientists in a multi-disciplinary team medicine approach, with groundbreaking research and an academic affiliation with the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. And as one of the charter members of the Temple Bioscience District, Scott & White continues its mission to promote health care education, embracing young individuals to become a part of its health care family to continue into the future with its world of healing.
About Beacon Partners
As the largest independent healthcare management consulting firm in the country, Beacon Partners is chosen by organizations in the Healthcare Community to provide expertise in the adoption of information technology to improve overall operational and financial performance. With their strategic approach and depth of experience, Beacon Partners is uniquely qualified to help organizations navigate the challenges in healthcare and optimize their potential to deliver the highest possible level of patient care. This proven approach allows healthcare organizations to maximize their Enterprise Yield™ – the alignment of people, processes and technologies – with the important understanding that success depends on the ability to adapt quickly to issues pertaining to clinical transformation, revenue cycle management, interoperability, workflow optimization, EHR implementation and more. As the HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 becomes a priority to healthcare organizations, Beacon Partners’ ARRA expertise helps organizations develop a roadmap that will lead to “meaningful user” status and maximize available incentives.
For more information, please visit http://www.beaconpartners.com and Beacon Partners’ special healthcare information portal, http://www.spotlightonhealthcare.com.
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