Falcon Consulting Group announces topics for the upcoming April 2013 HealthTech Council Meeting located in Chicago. At the Meeting, Falcon will be speaking with top executives from healthcare institutions. Brendan Downing, Partner of Falcon Consulting Group mentioned, “CMIO’s have been rushed to meet EMR implementation deadlines without doing due diligence and proper long term sustainability planning and are now faced with behemoth systems which are running their entire businesses but not performing the way they expected. The next wave of IT investment will be focused on efficiency, interoperability and consolidation efforts as well as security and risk management. “The most important topics being covered in Health IT recently center around EHR:
• Optimizing EHRs, which is one of the biggest strategic goals of hospitals and systems who have deployed EHR systems.
• Leveraging the power of EHR tools to maximize ROI, a critical strategy in an environment where EHRs can take up to 90% of an organization’s IT budgets
• How to use EHRs as a catalyst for the complete transformation of an organization by harnessing the power of data, information sharing and informatics to support better decision making
• Using business intelligence and informatics capabilities (analyzing data to create knowledge) to support better reporting capabilities so clinicians can use the data and knowledge created by these systems to diagnose and treat their patients.
Parham Eftekhari, Co-Founder and EVP of Research at HealthTech Council, mentioned, “The industry is just beginning to realize the power that IT has in completely transforming our healthcare industry. Payment reform, effective and wide-spread preventative care programs, wider access of quality care in rural areas and higher patient engagement are some of the most exciting impacts that we are starting to see and will completely revolutionize the way view healthcare”.
Falcon Consulting Group is a healthcare professional services firm, with a focus in providing advisory and staff augmentation services related to technology implementation and project management within leading healthcare Provider organizations across the globe. Our consultants have deep experience across the Provider spectrum and have provided advisory services to academic medical centers, large integrated delivery networks, acute and post-acute community and regional medical centers, pediatric centers of excellence, and ambulatory professional practices. Through the analysis, implementation, and support of new technologies, we help our clients improve the quality of care they deliver and maximize their business performance by providing cost-effective solutions.
About HealthTech: HealthTech is a sister organization to the well-known and widely respected Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA), a 10,000+ member organization serving the government IT community by providing executive-level opportunities for collaboration and the exchange of best practices and lessons learned in areas such as information sharing, enterprise architecture, cyber security and infrastructure modernization. Through it’s close relationship with executives at the White House, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, GTRA leadership quickly identified a need for targeted, focused dialogue to support the needs of the Health IT community. Using their experience and proven track in bringing together world-class thought leaders, GTRA executives launched the HealthTech community in 2011, with the mission of providing high impact forums for executive level collaboration and information exchange on technology issues facing the healthcare community.
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