Sample Projects
Quammen Health Care Consultants 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.
Hospitals & Health Systems—Strategic
- 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.
- Led a hospital board's review of healthcare IT vendors for complete technology strategy.
- Conducted enterprise scheduling assessment and implemented recommended projects.
Hospitals & Health Systems—Clinical
- Guided strategic planning for clinical automation of multiple areas in healthcare system.
- Directed contract evaluation, negotiation and project planning for acquisition of the market-leading point-of-care nursing application.
- Installed top-tier hospital information system for a seven-hospital integrated delivery network
- Conducted comprehensive workflow assessments to improve departmental efficiency.
- 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.
- Conducted contract negotiations and project management for a clinical decision support solution.
- Led testing for OR scheduling integration project.
- Compared and contrasted various clinical solution vendors for highly complex, multi-entity corporation.
Hospitals & Health Systems—Financial
- Led enterprise resource planning (ERP) project for a multi-hospital corporation.
- Evaluated the top labor management and workforce productivity solutions.
Hospitals & Health Systems—Technical
- Provided full outsourcing of data center and technical operations for a large, urban health care system.
- 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.
Physicians
- Demonstrated remote physician system access to orders and results.
- Conducted selection process for information system on which to base a medication administration record (MAR).
- Evaluated and demonstrated mobile computing options.
Cardiology Systems
- Outsourced product evaluation, selection and contract negotiation.
Radiology Systems
- Conducted selection process for radiology information system to integrate with existing picture archiving and communications system.
Other Engagements
- Participated in HIPAA technology sub-committee.
- Led evaluation of large-scale IT outsourcing project.
- Provided full outsourcing of data center and technical operations for a large, urban health care system.
- Developed a formal software acquisition model and policy.
- Created an integration engine technology strategy.
- Participated in data center consolidation plan development.
- Evaluated system processing load for new clinical automation project.
Suppliers and Vendors
- 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.