Strategic Interests worked tirelessly with Rochester Regional Health and Datos to rapidly deploy a COVID-19 remote patient monitoring solution in under a week! See the press release below for more details…
Our old offices were a bit like the board game Risk. We annexed space around us as we continued to need it and eventually cobbled together a group of offices. This involved knocking down walls here and putting up walls there, some interior windows and a few too many doorways. We were productive and made it work — but it lacked something.
Just a short hop away, we found a place better suited to our consultants, partners, and clients and this week, we moved to our beautiful offices: Executive Square at 95 Allens Creek in Rochester. We constructed team rooms, a large conference room and no longer in a third floor walk-up! We are confident this new location will better serve our needs and yours. Though we are still unpacking, stop by and let’s discuss how we can help meet your organization’s goals and best strategic interests.
Sometimes, one plus one equals more than just two. Strategic Interests, recognizing an opportunity for two organizations committed to excellence to collaborate and make each other stronger, has helped in the guidance and facilitation of a new community health care partnership in the Rochester area. After many months of planning, this week we were pleased to see the announcement that the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Rochester (JCC) and Rochester Regional Health (RRH) have publicly announced their partnership. This cooperative effort will offer the cutting edge programs and on-site health care services at the JCC provided by RRH staff.
There will be an on-site registered nurse (RN) who will provide health screenings, care navigation, referrals, and wellness workshops. In the future phases of this partnership, members will also see specialty services offered at the JCC location.
Strategic Interests was integral in providing advisory services, creative thinking, relationships, and the strategic planning to help these two organizations achieve a strong and meaningful partnership. We are proud of our involvement in this impactful initiative and are optimistic as to the future growth of this important community program.
SI is proud to have been named to the 2018 Rochester Chamber Top 100 Companies. The annual list reports the fastest-growing privately held companies in our area and highlights our region’s innovative and strong entrepreneurial spirit. In this article, SI’s own Al Kinel, shares his thoughts about doing business in Rochester and the culture at SI.
It’s been said that in healthcare, we make monumental changes at a glacial pace. According to an ONC report released this week, acute care hospitals have once again made an increase in their interoperability status versus last year. This nets out to a 2% increase in the number of hospitals that can receive patient summary of care records from other institutions, an increase of 6% for finding such records outside their health system and a whopping 12% increase in those who can integrate outside patient records into their own EHR. All told, however, only 41% of US non-federal acute care hospitals can send, receive, locate and integrate outside information – a number far too low to rush to high fives all around.
While the improvements are notable, there is still much work to do. Far too many hospitals have anemic data exchange policies and capabilities and nearly half have their EHR silo unable to show a complete patient record that includes outside care data. While we wish patients would remain within a single health system, geography, capabilities, and even travel schedules means this is often not the case.
Are you part of a hospital or health system who wants to improve your interoperability capabilities? Let Strategic Interests know. We would love to help design a suite of programs to help you achieve all the benefits an interoperable system provides.
Clinical informaticists (CIs) make key decisions during the electronic health record implementation and maintenance process that can affect the safety of patients and efficacy of providers. CIs bridge the gap between the practitioners and developers, builders and programmers. They use their knowledge about key workflows, the language to support key tools, and how to manage the health of a patient population through reports.
Epic Software, one of the largest hospital EHR companies, recently implemented a Clinical Informatics certification program in conjunction with University of Wisconsin – Madison. The purpose of this training is to provide knowledge of the integrated clinical health system, key functionality commonly used by clinicians, processes and terminology of building a variety of integrated Epic tools, and areas that drive reporting.
Strategic Interests is proud to announce that our Director of Clinical Services, Brett Kinsler, has joined only about 20 clinicians worldwide who have become Epic Certified Clinical Informaticists.
“Healthcare technology consultants are often positioned between the clinical people who are practicing healthcare and the folks who are responsible for changing software, implementing analytical tools, and maintaining workflows,” Kinsler said. “This certification will position SI to better help our existing clients who use Epic in their hospitals and health systems and hopefully will attract others who use Epic and want our help embarking on new projects.”
Why your organization might want to bring a clinical informatics consultant to the team? You want:
Whether you use Epic or another EHR, Strategic Interests can help you achieve your efficiency, effectiveness, and financial goals in healthcare.
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