New Facilities Technology Planning and Transition
Many healthcare providers are building replacement hospitals or building expansions to current facilities. The foundation of this growth is typically driven by deficiencies within current facilities; Lack of space, building does not support new workflows or does not meet patient or staff needs.
Expansions present many more challenges than building a replacement facility. Hospitals must ensure old and new facilities are truly integrated in their technology solutions and systems, clinical process and other workflows as well as patient flows and the overall patient experience.
Technology infrastructure is as critical as “bricks and mortar”
In building / renovating facilities, technology infrastructure is as critical as “bricks and mortar” and should be incorporated into the overall visioning and design of the new physical environment.
The technology infrastructure must support needs of all stakeholders; patients and visitors, physicians and nurses and other hospital staff. Technology planning needs to occur earlier in the facility project lifecycle and technology program management should continue throughout the process.
As information technology and service needs grow and prioritizing, planning and managing of them become more complex, executive leadership teams must focus on optimizing the use of technology, creating efficiencies and lowering costs while continually driving towards superior patient care. Impact Advisors’ IT Strategy Team helps organizations achieve these goals by partnering with clients to develop and implement enterprise-wide, multi-year, pragmatic strategic IT plans that address clinical and operational systems, infrastructure requirements, strategic partnerships with physicians, and eHealth opportunities.
Our Strategy Team understands today’s critical business issues, including competitive pressures, fostering strong hospital-physician relationships, optimizing existing technology and the constant demand for emerging technologies.
- Understanding the clients the business strategy and key goals
- Guiding executives teams in identifying viable options for fulfilling these strategies and achieving the goals
- Facilitating an understanding of current and future market trends, vendor offerings
- Identifying the strategy and tactical IT opportunities which will most positively impact the business direction
- Building concensus on the criteria and processes for prioritizing IT investments based on business and clinical goals
- Applying the appropriate structure, representation, and model for establishing and overseeing enterprise-wide IT strategy, plans, and projects
- Quantifying the expected impact
Impact Advisors Strategy Team has years of consulting, business, industry and IT experience. Leveraging this experience and best practices, we help organizations achieve substantial results. Our consultants use proven methodologies to help our clients determine how technology can create efficiencies, streamline business process and increase the quality of patient care.
Appropriate and effective IT Governance combined with a carefully constructed and executed IT Strategic Plan are the foundation of excellence in IT operations. Understanding how critical this is to the organization, our strategy solutions team works with our client’s organizational leadership to help them align technology with the operational needs of the organization as well as the overall strategic vision and direction of enhanced patient care.