How Our Industry Leading EHR Consulting Services Can Help
An electronic health records (EHR) system is a foundational investment for most health systems. The choice of your primary EHR, in turn, influences other technology investments and resource allocations throughout your organization. Given the size and scope of your investment, choosing an EHR Consulting partner proficient in your technology and skilled in enterprise strategic planning for hospitals and health systems is essential.
Over a Decade of EHR Experience
As a consulting provider to top health systems since 2011, Healthcare IT Leaders offers unparalleled domain expertise and a track record of successful, large, and small EHR projects. In addition, we align our services to your budget and objectives, acting as an extension of your organization to expand your capabilities.
The business of healthcare is our business. Our clients benefit from our decade-plus of industry experience and our specialized focus on enterprise applications for health systems.
An Experienced Team Built to Scale
Experts who have been there, done that. Our experienced consultants come from leading vendors (Epic, Oracle Cerner) and top healthcare providers. They are skilled at collaborating with diverse healthcare stakeholders and driving toward results.
Planning beyond the implementation. Of course, we’ll guide you through Go-Live, but we have your long-term objectives in mind as well. From upgrades and optimizations to a complete digital transformation, Healthcare IT Leaders can support your EHR needs for years to come.
EHR Consulting Experts
Our healthcare IT advisory team is composed of industry leaders with specialized, real-world healthcare experience.
- 26 years at Cerner Corp. in executive and consulting roles
- Cerner client leader at Bay Care Health System, Memorial Hermann Health System and Adventist Health System, among others.
- Experienced in Cerner methodology and Cerner clinical and RCM solutions
- BS in Computer Science
- 20+ years of experience in global technology operations
- Senior executive leader at Cerner Corp. (now Oracle Health), responsible for Support Services business and Client Success.
- Expert health system advisor with deep experience in clinical systems and revenue cycle management systems.
- Provides strategy and implementation know-how for large-scale health system transformational projects
- Former Epic Systems PM and consultant with multiple Epic certifications
- 10+ years of EHR Implementation experience
- Epic & athenahealth expert: successfully integrated across 1,000+ ambulatory settings
- Launched EHR training for 2,000+ staff while at Optum
Full Lifecycle EHR Consulting Services
Healthcare IT leaders has a range of full lifecycle EHR consulting services, including project management, data migration, interoperability, and more. These services ensure that your EHR implementation or optimization project is a success for leadership, providers, and patients.
System Selection and Contracting
Find the right EHR solution for your organization through a guided, vendor-agnostic process that includes stakeholder interviews, weighted scorecards, demos, and site visits, leading you from discovery through evaluation to selection.
Implementation
Project leadership and technical expertise for any size EHR implementation. Build, test, launch, and manage individual modules or entire solutions with the help of experienced consultants who support your organization through Go-Live and beyond.
Data Integration & Migration
Extract, transfer, and load data from your legacy system to your new EHR using our tools and data migration expertise. For deeper insights, combine disparate data sources from business and clinical systems in a data warehouse or data cloud platform.
Technology and Infrastructure Consulting
The shift from hardware-intensive technology to cloud-based applications requires specialized knowledge and planning. We’ll help your organization develop a comprehensive infrastructure blueprint to ensure resiliency and scalability for future needs.
Staffing and Hiring
From executive recruitment to contract hiring, let our experienced healthcare IT staffing professionals help bridge the talent gap for your IT organization.
Go Live and Training
Our Go-Live and training solutions increase end user adoption and satisfaction, while ensuring effective learning and knowledge transfer.
Managed Services
Utilize our Managed IT Services solutions to improve service levels and enhance the maintenance and performance of critical applications, while achieving operational efficiencies with a predictable cost model.
Reporting and Analytics
Success is dependent on actionable data. We help you manage your EHR data, integrate with data clouds and data warehouses, and develop reports and dashboards that help enable information-rich decisions.
Recent Projects
Detail: EHR Implementation
Services: Design, Build, Training and Go Live
Results: Met deadline for rapid Epic install for new hospital opening
Detail: EHR Implementation
Services: Design, Build, Training and Go Live
Results: Filled over 300 Epic roles as preferred staffing/consulting partner
Detail: EHR Consulting and Staffing
Services: Multi-year staffing support for all IT roles
Results: Placed 200+ Epic certified consultants for contract and permanent roles
Detail: EHR Implementation
Services: PM and Build
Results: Integrated multiple 3rd party solutions providing a more end-to-end solution
Detail: EHR Training and Go Live
Services: 3 Go Live across multiple Epic modules
Results: Helped over users transition to the new Epic EHR
Detail: EHR Consulting and Staffing
Services: Multi-year support for all IT roles
Results: Aided multiple EHR, RCM, and HCM initiatives as strategic partner
Detail: Infrastructure Optimization
Services: PM and Advisory Services
Results: Managed transition from Client-hosted to Cerner Remote Hosted
Detail: EHR Training and Go Live
Services: Go Live and ATE staffing
Results: Successfully supported Cerner Oncology Go-Live
Detail: EHR Implementation
Services: Cerner Consultant Staffing
Results: Placed 25+ Cerner analysts, project managers, and developers
Takeaways
Healthcare IT Leaders’ EHR consulting practice has a proven track record of helping organizations successfully implement and optimize their EHR systems, leading to increased efficiency and productivity and improved patient care.
Our team of highly qualified consultants can provide customized solutions to meet your organization’s unique needs, and we offer a range of services to support every step of the EHR journey.
By working with us, IT leadership can be confident that they are making the best decisions for their staff and patients.
FAQs About EHR Consulting Solutions
The complexity of the hospital infrastructure primarily dictates the timeline to implement an EHR system. Most medical bodies can expect a timeline between several months to a couple of years.
Cost varies by hospital size, complexity, and many other factors.
The most used EHR across the United States is Epic Systems Corporation. Epic also maintains a high customer retention benchmark with the average customer using the software for a period of ten years or more.
Epic has grown into one of the most commonly used EHR systems in the nation. Today, nearly one third of all US-based in-patient implementation systems are managed with support from Epic.
The three leading EHR systems in the United States are Epic, Cerner, and MEDITECH. Collectively, these three systems account for over 70 percent of the national EHR market.
An EMR is a digitized version of a patient’s medical chart that contains the patient’s medical and treatment history. An EHR includes all the information in an EMR, but an EHR enables hospitals to connect with laboratories and other specialists to paint a broader picture of the patient’s entire medical history.
Hospitals are the primary users of EHR software. In most cases, EHRs are used to improve the quality of patient care, monitor the health and safety of patients, and evaluate the performance of the entire medical staff at the hospital.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services has a detailed checklist of requirements that an EHR must comply with to become fully certified. Those requirements involve technological, functional, and security benchmarks that evaluate an EHR’s certifiability.
Customer Success
“We are still receiving raves about the ATE folks we engaged during Go Live. We had a very positive experience working with Healthcare IT Leaders. I recommend (their firm) for any Epic implementation.”Terry Moede
Program Manager, Implementation Services, OSHU-Tuality Healthcare