Capabilities & Experience
Quammen Group has helped healthcare organizations with a variety of needs—and information technologies. Not only do our professionals participate in selection and planning, but we also deliver practical, hands-on implementation assistance and support to numerous healthcare organizations. This list offers a sampling of some of our specific capabilities.
Planning
- Created a corporate-level strategic information systems plan for a multi-hospital health system:
- Inventoried current software, hardware, operating system and infrastructure assets
- Analyzed budget and staffing usage, demands, and requirements
- Produced long-range, tactical information systems plan
- Prepared a comprehensive industry overview representing all major healthcare IT vendors for use in a new facility construction plan.
Assessment
- Conducted enterprise scheduling assessment and implemented recommended projects.
- Led a hospital board’s review of healthcare IT vendors for complete technology strategy.
- Evaluated existing HIS solution to establish a baseline for product replacement or upgrade.
- Performed comprehensive review of mobile computing solution options for clinical software implementation.
- Led evaluation of large-scale IT outsourcing project
- Reviewed home healthcare application development project.
- Reviewed desktop management product.
- Modeled cost for application service provider (ASP) hosting of home healthcare application.
- Participated in comprehensive review of 64 new and existing products.
- Conducted selection process for information system on which to base a medication administration record (MAR).
- Evaluated and demonstrated mobile computing options.
Implementation
- Installed top-tier hospital information system for a seven-hospital integrated delivery network
- Implemented electronic medical record (EMR) solution.
- For a seven-hospital health system, implemented order entry, clinical results, patient management (PM), and enterprise access directory (EAD).
- Quickly implemented order entry, clinical results, PM, and EAD for a newly acquired hospital.