IT Strategic Planning
In order to best use technology for strategic alignment, risks need to be defined and mitigated. Our strategic planning approach evaluates your organization’s near- and long-term requirements against market conditions, existing technologies, perceptions and attitudes, and capital and operating expense considerations to develop a path for acquiring and implementing technologies to support strategic objectives. Specific assistance includes:
- Multi-year technology plans.
- Business plans for community technology deployment (health information exchange [HIE], EHR donations, management services organization [MSO] development, etc.)
- System design, integration, and architectural enhancements.
- Technology assessment and risk-mitigation strategies.
- Evaluation of emerging technologies and solutions.
- Development of Internet and e-commerce strategies.
- Evaluation and coaching of the IT function to attain goals.
Our planning processes are focused, participatory, and educational, resulting in a plan that is agreed upon by your organization and ready to be implemented.
Selected Projects
Developing an integration strategy for a faculty practice and its primary care clinics. Expand Minimize
We assisted a large faculty practice organization and its associated primary care network in developing a strategy for integrating the practice management applications and supporting IT services of the two organizations. The resulting plan allowed for the progressive use of information systems in the primary care clinic operations, while maintaining the economies and efficiencies of central revenue cycle management capabilities.
Establishing a long-term IT vision for a medical center. Expand Minimize
ECG assisted a medical center in establishing a long-term vision for its information systems. We reviewed the current information systems environment and developed a model for the future vision, with an associated transition plan. Through this process an IT plan was developed that provided a framework for improving the medical center’s strategic and operational use of information systems.
Planning the IT department infrastructure for a large medical center. Expand Minimize
We assisted a large medical center in the assessment of its IT governance, management, organization, and operations. From this assessment we developed alternative models for meeting the organization’s IT needs and facilitated the evaluation of these alternatives and ultimately the selection of the optimal model. We concluded this assignment by creating an implementation plan and a budget.
