Superior Performance Archive

All of our past Superior Performance features are listed on this page.

May 2006	The Art of IT Scenario Planning The driving forces that will affect health services in the coming decades each have a set of business and IT implications. A recently completed client scenario initiative is summarized below. Download the presentation (Three Illustrative Scenarios for 2012) to visualize IT implications for these forecasts. The well educated Baby Boomers expect choice and rely on branding to signal quality and value. Consumer-directed healthcare plans are poised for rapid growth and will affect the well and the ill differently. Marketing to the largely well will be like traditional consumer marketing. Pay for Performance/Quality reimbursements will become a significant chunk of revenues and will focus on outcomes rather than process adherence. Technology, clinical, and services enabled improvement will permeate the organization’s core. Genetic testing and bioinformatics will customize treatments by predisposition to a disease or drug. Rapidly advancing IT will open powerful competitive levers for learning for adept organizations.
January 2006	Board Governance of Information Technology Board oversight responsibility for information technology is a subject of considerable discussion. The Corporate Library, follows 50 U.S. publicly traded companies that have a board level technology committee, with the number growing. Download our current health care organization practice guidelines on this subject.
January 2006	Governance Skills-Essential for Today’s Corporate Directors Our Managing Practice Director, Joseph DeLuca, has completed course and experience requirements and received the Certificate of Director Education from the Corporate Directors Institute of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Joe was in the first graduating class to receive this credential, and is a sitting public company director.
January 2006	Fulcrum PMC Manages Complex IT Launch Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, an international leader in pediatric medicine, initiated the first phase of LINKS (Information and Knowledge System), specifically designed to improve patient safety, clinical care, patient satisfaction and operational efficiency. The electronic health record technology is being supplied primarily by Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ:CERN). Management of the complex effort is facilitated by Fulcrum’s Project Management and Collaboration (PMC) toolset, with over 100 online users, as well as select Fulcrum Systems Implementation Methodology templates. San Francisco Business Times, September 16-22, 2005
October 2005	Analytics Driven Diagnostic Imaging PACS Purchase Community Medical Centers, Fresno, CA, recently implemented a fully digital diagnostic imaging and PACS technology, with immediate economic and patient care benefits associated with the all digital environment. The technology is being purchased through an innovative combination of pay-for-performance and pay-as-you-go techniques, anchored by a FASB compliant operating lease. Download a summary of the project, solution, benefits and lessons learned.
April 2005	Scenario Based EMR Demonstrations Selecting an ambulatory Electronic Medical Records product is a daunting task, fraught with potential misunderstanding about product capabilities. John Muir Health is in the process of selecting an ambulatory EMR product for its one-hundred physician Muir Diablo Primary Care group, and is pushing the demonstration process to a new standard of diligence. Challenging, yet realistic, patient care scenarios and associated functional scripts are being used to see exactly how adult and pediatric cases would be managed by the EMR. Eric Saff, CIO of the health system, believes that, “We have developed an innovative assessment tool, and I would like others in the health care industry to benefit from our ideas.” Download a free sample.

 

 

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