IT Strategy & Value

IT Strategy
& Value

Orchestrating technology, operations, and strategy to accelerate business transformation and innovation
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Impact Advisors Earns Best in KLAS: Overall IT Services Firm for 2024

The Overall IT Services Firm ranking is reserved for those firms that have a minimum of three separate IT services that are ranked or newly rated in four separate market segments.

Impact Advisors received a score of 94.1 for Overall IT Services Firm.

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Challenges

Today’s healthcare CIOs have a lot to contend with, between ensuring tech-enabled care quality, keeping critical IT infrastructure secure and running, and achieving the level of digital maturity and dexterity required to compete, all while balancing cost and value. Impact Advisors can help. Our experts have been operating in or advising executive-level IT roles for more than 20 years. Solving healthcare’s toughest challenges is what we do.

  • Evaluating the cost/value of technologies - current or planned
  • Identifying the right IT tools and resources to achieve strategic objectives
  • Implementing new technology at scale to engage patients and staff without increasing security risk
  • Prioritizing time and energy spent on IT projects
  • Ensuring IT infrastructure, talent, program management, and services support organization needs
  • Responding to critical market drivers: patient/consumer experience, value-based care, retailization, personalized medicine, data analytics, cloud computing, virtual health
Value Delivered

Achieving business transformation objectives

with IT as a critical driver

Strategic decision-making

enabled through a structured operating model and governance

More efficient

use of tools, technology, and talent

Predictable spend

and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

“84% of 3,000 CIOs surveyed say they have responsibilities outside of traditional IT, the most common being transformation and innovation.”

– Gartner Group

 

How We Deliver Value

IT’s role in healthcare has shifted from strategic enabler to key driver of business transformation and innovation, and Impact Advisors has been there for it all. Hundreds of the industry’s foremost IT leaders have put their trust in us to help them develop and implement IT strategies and optimize the appropriateness, effectiveness, security, and strategic value of their technology architecture, infrastructure, application portfolio, IT governance, and human assets.

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We assimilate best practices from healthcare and other industries to create flexible, scalable, and future-proof strategic plans with actionable, value-generating near and long-term roadmaps. We consider your organization’s unique business strategies, resources, and culture, engaging your leadership in the development and deployment of the IT strategy that they help create and drive.

With every engagement, Impact Advisors focuses on prioritizing the highest value targets, and our approach is collaborative, equipping your teams with tools and skills they’ll use to drive more, sustainable value.

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Choosing the right solution can be challenging. Now add the timeline pressure of a looming board decision. Impact Advisors has led more solution evaluation and selection projects over the last few years than any other firm in the industry. From an options analysis to a comprehensive selection process, we are objective and thorough, leveraging our deep knowledge of all the major vendors and their capabilities and accelerating your ability to make an informed choice.

A new EHR or ERP system is one of the biggest investment decisions a healthcare organization will ever make. We can help you build a solid business case and define an accurate budget by determining the total cost of ownership and expected return of your major IT investments.

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Modernizing core technology and migrating to the cloud are inevitable. Digital transformation can’t happen without it. Leveraging deep business acumen, clinical systems integration, and analytics capabilities, along with the power and scale of cloud computing platforms, we deliver agile solutions purpose-built to further healthcare innovation and digital transformation.

Our experts will help you evaluate and choose the right technology or platform on which to build desired digital health and analytics capabilities. We’ll also prepare your organization to consume from the cloud and absorb the organizational impacts of the shift.

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Impact Advisors can help clients grow and improve their medical imaging tools, processes, and operations through solid strategies, plans, technology deployments, and targeted optimization. We have expertise in all aspects of medical imaging, including cardiology, radiology, and digital pathology and extensive knowledge of and experience using the market’s leading imaging technologies and tools.

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Navigating the complexities of healthcare regulation is a highly specialized skill. Healthcare organizations engage Impact Advisors’ experts to interpret the rules and develop actionable strategies to achieve compliance within the required timeframes. If needed, we can deploy resources to supplement your team’s build and configuration efforts. We can also help you establish a formal compliance program, tooling and staffing it until your own team can be ramped up.

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In healthcare, downtime and data loss aren’t just inconvenient, they can be catastrophic. Impact Advisors delivers resiliency by minimizing disruptions and their business impacts and establishing plans to expeditiously return to normal operations after problems occur.

We provide the full spectrum of industry-standard Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery services, tailored to your organization’s risk tolerance, capability, and maturity. Collaborating with your stakeholders, we create prioritized strategies to steadily advance your resiliency.

 

Strong Stories.
Detailed Experiences.
Case Studies.

Impact Advisors developed a prototype for a robust data analytics toolkit for Clinical Engineering, allowing team to better visualize their complete medical inventory of more than 50,000 devices.

Impact Advisors guided a health system through the visioning, planning and budgeting for the technology implementation of a new, 8-story, 500-bed tower. We also provided leadership and project management to ensure the successful implementation and IT transition of the full complement of information systems as well as the associated hardware, software and device integration and several innovative “Intelligent Hospital” solutions.

Impact Advisors helped integrate the IT infrastructure, organization and app portfolio ahead of the merger of two cancer-fighting entities with starkly different operating models.

50K+

Device Inventory

New Facility Design

and Phased Implementation

240

Redundant Systems Discovered

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Our Leaders

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John Curin.web
Skip Lemon

Our Leaders

Matt Duncan - IT Strategy & Value Solutions Leader

Matt has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare IT field and has helped many of the nation’s largest and most complex health systems with strategic planning, assessment, and implementation of enterprise vendor strategies. He has also provided executive oversight to multiple, large-scale Epic enterprise implementations. Previous career highlights include serving as Deputy CIO of a large health system, leading the healthcare strategy service of the world’s largest IT research firm, and directing the HIPAA advisory practice of a large consulting firm.

John Curin - Technology & Cloud-Smart Solutions Lead

John is a dynamic technology executive with a strategic mindset and a breadth and depth of subject matter expertise focused on aligning IT capabilities to the accelerating pace of business. He has a successful history of planning, integrating, and running industry leading technologies and practices for myriad organizations with a focus on healthcare providers, in addition to financial services, global enterprises, and the Fortune 500. He is a recognized thought leader and top performer in several industry categories with a proven record of execution and achieving optimal business outcomes.

Bruce "Skip" Lemon - IT Advisory Practice Lead

Skip is a healthcare consulting executive with over 30 years of experience in strategy development, large-scale program management, systems integration, clinical and revenue cycle process improvement, and outsourcing. His career has focused on serving clients in the healthcare industry including providers, health insurance companies, and healthcare software companies with a heavy emphasis on serving healthcare providers.

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