Transition Management

Often, transformative change management requires an organization structure and change agents which go far beyond traditional program needs. Health care organizations require skilled, extraordinary management resources when working towards:

  • Standing up new service areas (analytics, Agile rapid process improvement, disaster recovery/business continuity)
  • Consolidation of redundant and underperforming application areas (revenue cycles, decision support systems, shadow IS departments, etc)
  • Implementation of an extensive set of new applications
  • Movement from an outsourced to in-house staff environment, or
  • Execution of an aggressive benefits realization program

We offer a service portfolio to achieve breakthrough results in transformation management and best practices including:

  • Establishment and management of program management offices for Application Software Transition, Value Realization, and Organization Consolidations/Mergers/Acquisitions
  • Interim Director Staffing and leadership for consolidation of management positions, establishment of new functions (such as enterprise wide business systems, EMR implementations, analytics)
  • Functional current state assessment and future state (improvement) pathway development

Recent client engagements:

  • Interim Director and Leadership to establish an organization wide Business Services Information Systems group covering all hospital, ambulatory, physician, health plan and ACO business units. Requirements included ground up build, transition and performance management of current staff, and establishment and achievement of performance levels
  • Design and build of a legacy Application Software Transition and Support PMO
  • Interim Director and Leadership to establish and turnaround an academic medical center diagnostic clinical and anatomical pathology laboratory informatics service