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.
Go-Live Success
A successful Go-Live is critical to true Clinical Transformation. We provide the structure, resources, expertise and in-the-trenches support to ensure your Go-Live success. Our consultants lead you from initial Go-Live strategy assessment through Command Center build and issue resolution, to your facility’s moving forward independently with a maximized HIT. We then provide effective 24x7 elbow-to-elbow support–support vital to clinician and end-user adoption. Click here to learn more.
Clinical System Transformation Services
Healthcare organizations face numerous challenges that affect patient safety and care, fiscal stability and evolving technologies such as clinical information and EHR systems. Now, with the advent of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), maximizing your systems investment is more important than ever. And Beacon Partners can provide the proven expertise to do just that. Our consultants are well versed and highly skilled in the areas that provide the most value for your clinical systems investments, and we can staff your engagement with the experienced, knowledgeable professionals to assess, plan and implement your safety-focused technologies. Click here to learn more.
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.
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.
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