Beacon Partners consultants have in-depth information technology experience as former Chief Information Officers and IT Directors of hospitals, academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks. Their extensive experience with complex healthcare IT initiatives affords them a genuine understanding of the evolving industry challenges, best practices and critical success factors required to deploy new or improved information technology.

Search and Selection
Before selecting a new information system or technology, a healthcare organization must determine its operational requirements. By focusing on the people, process and technologies during the selection phase, this methodology provides a foundation for a successful implementation.

Contract Negotiations
Entering into a vendor relationship with clearly defined expectations minimizes the cost of IT initiatives and helps to ensure a successful implementation. Building on familiarity with industry standards and best practices, our consultants will help you develop a negotiation strategy that will yield an advantageous contract, laying the groundwork for a productive relationship.

Clinical System Transformation Services
Beacon Partners provides the proven expertise to maximize your clinical system investment. Organizations are faced with many challenges affecting patient safety and care, fiscal stability and evolving technologies — including the implementation of clinical information systems. Our expert consultants are skilled in the areas of change management, training and process redesign, precisely those areas that make up the lion’s share of successful system implementations. We are committed to providing experienced, knowledgeable professionals to assess, plan and implement patient-safety-focused technologies.

System Implementation, Upgrades and Optimization
Information technology that is implemented without consideration of the operations will most likely not achieve the desired outcomes. We have assisted organizations in the implementation, upgrading and optimization of their vendor solutions. Our focus is always on the organization’s goals and to ultimately ensure that the people, process and technologies are all in alignment.

Project Management
Implementing a new technology requires strong management that understands the complexities of today’s healthcare environment. We have significant experience anticipating and negotiating potential roadblocks to IT implementations. Our consultants possess the necessary project management skills to help you keep your IT initiatives on track. Effective communications and a commitment to project visibility will help you build consensus, overcome resistance to change and ensure a smooth transition to more efficient technologies and processes. Our project management team works side-by-side with you to develop a plan that will ensure that a vendor’s solution is integrated into your operations.

Enterprise Application Integration
Utilizing a wide variety of leading edge software utilities and solution tools, our technical team offers custom integrations and programming to enhance your existing systems. We integrate your current applications with best-of-class technologies.

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
In the event that disasters strike, unprepared healthcare organizations face the consequence of prolonged system downtime that impacts patient care and revenue loss. Many organizations are not prepared to deal with such scenarios. The key to surviving such an event is a Disaster Recovery plan that includes a strategy to maintain operations that are as close to normal as possible.

iCorridor™—Healthcare Enterprise Technologies
iCorridor is a Windows-based application integration platform that provides connectivity to disparate applications throughout organizations as well as the healthcare community. iCorridor allows for rapid deployment of integration projects that support EHR interoperability, data migration and information exchanges between various distributed enterprise-wide vendor applications.