Q: Why would my organization need to perform a
readiness assessment?
A: A structured readiness assessment before you implement your new Healthcare Information System (HIS) can make the difference between a successful implementation and a barely adequate one. The assessment will define your processes and procedures within your clinical and financial areas that will be [...]

One question we often hear while working in various facilities is, “How can I simplify the nursing documentation process?”
In order to make reviewing nursing documentation a more simple process, where possible, use consistency when building CDS assessments and treatments, especially the group responses. There are areas of patient assessment, where the information gathered is [...]

Last week I attended a presentation by a national company who combines Business Intelligence with Integration Software developing programs and strategies for business intelligence for hundreds of companies thru out the country and is designed to help companies benefit from more effective uses of Technology in solution assessments.
Solutions Assessments basically consists of:
* Examining key information [...]

I often see articles regarding change management in organizations, utilization of business intelligence and optimizing the workforce to optimize value in the organization as well as aligning actual performance with strategic initiatives. Rarely do I see much of this being done in the healthcare field which in my opinion is the reason most healthcare organizations [...]

Over the last several weeks I have talked to former Healthcare clients, Financial Colleagues and Prospective Client Financial Executives and I am still surprised that many of them are functioning the same way they have for years utilizing the same processes and procedures along with their barely functional IT systems. I understand that the economy [...]

Freezing, putting on hold, resizing, scaling down, deferring and even ignoring the economy is the current state of budgets, projects, and plans in hospitals across the country. This economic climate creates a circumstance to look at what you currently have with renewed optimism. Hospitals need to take a new current look at their employees, technology, [...]

I spoke with a CFO the other day. You’ll never believe this. He can’t get the financial information he needs out of the legacy financial system that is running thanks to two paper clips, bubble gum, a matchbook and some McGyver-like geek working in the bowels of the hospital where the IT Director has his [...]

Read Part 1 here: http://www.ithealthcareconsultants.com/?p=157
Part 2: The readiness assessment will be a tool of the Director of Medical Informatics to review ongoing processes that are used to create and disseminate various reports, in order to identify potential process improvements and implement them. As such, the goal of the readiness assessment is to provide a [...]

Every health care delivery entity in the country wants a share of the federal government’s $36 billion incentive package to install electronic health records. However those who do not quickly develop a strategy, and then act on it, may be unable to receive benefits under the requirements of the package. And worse, they [...]

Every hospital has made a considerable investment in its information technology. However, to ensure you are achieving the goals and purposes for which you obtained the system, you should perform an assessment of how the system is being utilized and to what degree all the capabilities of the system are being used. This [...]