Winigent healthcare practice specializes in EMR strategic advisory and implementation services.
Healthcare Strategic Advisory Services:
Winigent provides Strategic Advisory Services to clients as they address demanding technology and clinical issues. Our Strategic Advisory Services include a broad range of assessment, analytic, planning and management consultation offerings to help IT and enterprise leadership capitalize on healthcare and technology trends, align IT strategy with business strategy and goals, establish a pragmatic technology roadmap, and optimizing IT operations. In addition, our Strategic Advisory Services team has deep subject expertise in project management capability and preparing for EHR meaningful use as mandated by the 2009 HITECH Act.
Health Care Strategy and planning Services:
As technology identified to be the key element to improve and mature virtually all aspects of operations and clinical care, healthcare IT leaders are looking for appropriate strategic options for their unique operating context and avoid risky decisions. As a partner in our clients journeys, Winigent seeks to optimize the appropriateness, effectiveness and strategic value of each organization's technology architecture, infrastructure, application portfolio, IT governance and human resource planning.
Winigent, while being sensitive to financial and environmental constraints, leverages industry knowledge and best practices to provide clients an expansive perspective on strategic planning endeavors whether they are departmental or service line centric, enterprise-wide or extending into broader health information exchange.
At a high level, the Winigent IT Strategy and Planning approach works with IT and organizational leadership to:
- Understand the strategy of the business and the environment in which it operates
- Assess technology and system gaps and dentify opportunities
- Define the infrastructure and/or application solutions needed to close gaps and further business strategy
- Develop and gain executive and operational buy-in for a multi-year IT strategic roadmap
- Address the governance roles and responsibilities required to drive the strategy
- Identify risks and establish proactive mitigation strategies
HITECH / Meaningful Use Readiness Assessment:
The passage of the ARRA and its Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act ushered in a new era of opportunity for the healthcare industry. Today, hospitals and providers are grappling with understanding Meaningful Use and the myriad of other quality measurement, reporting, HIPAA/security and financial implications from HITECH.
Winigent is helping clients respond to the HITECH Act and prepare for Meaningful Use. Our structured methodology includes a detailed clinical assessment of Meaningful Use readiness for hospitals and/or eligible providers. It also includes assessing clients compliance with the numerous HIPAA and security components of the Act. Finally, our methodology evaluates the financial impact of achieving Meaningful Use through scenario analyses based on the findings from clinical and HIPAA/security readiness evaluation. The results of this comprehensive assessment serve as the basis for the recommended technical and workflow enhancements needed to attain Meaningful Use.
Project Management Capability Development/Optimization:
Establishing and growing internal project management capabilities is instrumental to advancing organizational strategies and tactics. Within healthcare organizations, often the IT department serves as the focal point for project management. Winigent combines leading industry practices and standards from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and other resources with pragmatic, healthcare-centric tools and methodologies to yield a PM capability that adds value and structure to the healthcare IT organizations.
Strategic Implementation Services:
Winigent works in partnership with healthcare provider organizations and vendors to successfully plan implement and optimize complex, healthcare critical systems. Our implementation capabilities and services encompass pre-implementation Planning, including Total Cost of Ownership and Benefits Modeling, Implementation Project Leadership and Staffing and Project Quality Review and System Optimization. Our principles have planned for and implemented clinical, revenue cycle systems from Epic, GE and Meditech.
Our Strategic Implementation Services complement our Strategic Advisory Services. We provide clients a complete, cohesive, consistent progression of services from strategic planning, system selection, system planning and implementation to post-live optimization.
Pre-Implementation Planning:
Establishing and growing internal project management capabilities is instrumental to advancing organizational strategies and tactics. Within healthcare organizations, often the IT department serves as the focal point for project management. Winigent melds leading industry practices and standards from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and other resources with pragmatic, healthcare-centric tools and methodologies to yield a PM capability that adds value and structure to the healthcare IT organizations.
Pre-Implementation Planning typically consists of the following activities:
- Developing the Project Charter and supporting documentation
- Developing comprehensive project plans spanning multiple years, applications and/or sites
- Assessing organizational, infrastructure and end-user readiness
- Engaging executives and key clinicians in owning and supporting the project from start to successful completion and through system optimization
- Providing project management tools and techniques to facilitate governance, communication, risk and issue management and progress reporting
- Estimating Total Cost of Ownership for capital and operational budgeting
Systems & Process Readiness:
Winigent ensures that our clients are ready to undertake the highest quality, most efficient and comprehensive deployments of advanced clinical systems. Our systems and process readiness services integrate the process consulting, technology implementation, education and value management activities customers need to be successful. Customers are led through the planning phases with the continuous driving objective of maximizing value from their investment.
Winigent can assist in ensuring your organization is prepared for new systems and process by assessing the following:
- External environment
- Organizational leadership
- Structure
- Culture
- Infrastructure
- Information Technology
Implementation Project Leadership:
Given the technical, operational, and often political, complexity inherent in a large-scale system implementation, many healthcare organizations rely on Winigent's Project Leadership resources to ensure project success. Our Associates who specialize in Implementation Project Leadership are seasoned system implementation experts who possess "hands on" experience and the professionalism essential to managing large-scale projects, as well as the credibility and people skills needed to develop and lead project teams. Our Project Leadership experts can be engaged at any stage of a project or be utilized to strengthen existing project leadership.
Implementation Resource Augmentation:
Our Implementation Associates are a select group of experienced, vendor-certified professionals with deep clinical or revenue cycle workflow expertise who can lead and/or assist with all aspects of system implementation, including:
- System Design and Build
- Testing and System Quality Assurance
- System Integration
- Security Configurations
- Training
- Go Live and Post-Live Optimization
Project Quality Review / Optimization
OWINIGENT offers unbiased project quality assurance and optimization services. Working with IT and executive leadership, we identify and/or validate strengths, gaps and concerns and develop tactics to resolve issues and ensure project success
Typically a Project Quality Review addresses the following areas:
- Project Governance and Leadership
- Project Structure, Skill Set assessment and Staffing
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Timeline and Budget Management
- Vendor Relationships
Our experienced leaders conduct this assessment through a blend of interviews and observations, data and documentation review, technology infrastructure evaluation and iterative validation with key stakeholders. Upon completion, we provide detailed findings and recommendations based on the assessment to help ensure risks are effectively managed and that projects are completed on time, on budget and according to scope.
