The Challenge

• Impending Healthcare Reform has brought a great deal of attention to business opportunities in the healthcare industry with a multitude of emerging ventures, as well as significant challenges to which clinicians, hospitals and all associated "business partners" must adapt.
• Start-up entities require the assistance of those with a deep understanding of the industry, and venture capitalists often need similar input as part of their due-diligence and assessment processes.
• Compliance to new legislative mandates will require significant workflow changes impacting clinicians and ancillary staff, with necessary attention to mandates dealing with data in both electronic format and on paper - and is a requirement for the receipt of government incentive payments.
• A great deal of attention will need to be paid to both electronic data flow and paper management in the part-paper / part-electronic world - a healthcare industry environment which will be in place for the foreseeable future.
• Adoption of clinical technology systems is not a challenge that is limited to hospitals and ambulatory medical practices. Payers also struggle to engage clinicians in the use of selected electronic medical records products or features, vendors continuously refine their design and development processes to maximize workflow efficiencies, and data collection agencies and governmental organizations struggle to gather data from a wide variety of disparate, proprietary systems with varying database architectures.

Our staff of clinician informaticists, industry business experts and consultants in HIPAA, HITECH, Meaningful Use criteria and Health Information Management (records management) brings a unique combination of expertise to the process of IT adoption, implementation, business development, and legislative compliance.

At the core of the CIH approach is the fundamental fact that our group is composed of experienced and respected experts. We know the industry, we know the technology challenges and we know what life is like in the trenches of clinical practice.