Our Focus is Your Business

Planning, Optimizing, Implementing and Sustaining Healthcare Information Technology

With ARRA and the HITECH Act, HIT vendor implementation teams are stretched beyond their ability to deliver a meaningful HIT solution. What’s more, healthcare incentive programs run by large federal bureaucracies carry with them onerous, low value-add administrative tasks, shifting milestone definitions and questionable timelines that introduce lots of uncertainty into your strategic IT plans.

At Tricension’s core, we believe that ‘meaningful’ healthcare IT solutions are readily adopted by the user community because they use information technology in ways that drive high-quality and efficient clinical and business processes, not because they meet external definitions of what a ‘meaningful’ healthcare IT system should be. This focus on optimizing clinical processes via the appropriate use of technology will make your solutions sustainable and scalable over time.

Financial incentives to sell and install large volumes of systems means that many HIT vendors and/or government-sponsored programs may not have your organizations best interest as their primary motivator. Tricension’s Back To Basics Practice is vendor neutral and is driven by delivering sustainable business value. We believe that a good process, automated where appropriate, will drive adoption and deliver measurable and sustainable long-term benefits.

The Back to Basics Practice is focused on maximizing organizational, financial, and community benefits for the technology you need. It is also aligned with, but not driven by, HITECH Meaningful Use criteria to help you maximize incentive dollars. These criteria include:

• Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR)
• ePrescribing solution (eRx)
• Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
• Interoperability - Health Information Exchange (HIE)
• Quality Measures - Business Intelligence Solution for Analytics & Reporting

Our services include a full range of consultative, clinical and technical implementation support services.

• Knowledge sharing and education on key aspects of Meaningful Use objectives – Done in the context of your specific organizational needs
• Help create a strategic plan for achieving Meaningful Use incentives that includes risks introduced by:
  • Pre-existing key strategic IT initiatives for your organization
  • Other near term critical path projects competing for like resources and funding
• Vendor Selection: Manage vendor selection process
• Vendor Management: Oversee all work related to healthcare IT solution implementation and optimization.
• Process Optimization: Process analysis, collaborative design, and re-engineering
  • Lead the clinical requirements gathering, facilitate workflow design
  • Change Management, Adoption Success, and Measurement
• Technology Requirements: Assure infrastructure and integration technical requirements are defined
• Systems Integration: Manage, Develop, and Deliver healthcare IT systems integration to other clinical, community and business systems. Identify interfaces necessary for supporting interoperability (i.e. with the HIE).
• Meaningful Use Management Scorecard: Provide Key Performance Indicator scorecard displaying EHR/EMR Meaningful Use metrics.
• HIE Services (if needed): Oversee the deployment and compliance with interoperability and security standards to ensure the effective integration of the provider’s clinical systems with the HIE. Specifically:
  • The integration of the practice’s EHR/EMR application to the regional, state-wide and national Health Information Exchanges
  • The completion of testing support in preparation for integration with the HIE;
  • The completion of data feeds of HL7 mapping support for data feed integration with the HIE.

Solutions – Enterprise Class Clinical, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions in Various Medical Specialties.

With decades of design and implementation experience in Healthcare Information Technology, Tricension architects, develops, implements and supports commercial or custom Healthcare Information Technology Solutions.

Business Intelligence – Industry Strength Data Warehousing Methods are Used to Integrate and Manage Data.

Data assets are then exploited for business intelligence such as executive dashboards, Key Performance Indicator messaging, statistical analysis and focused operational reporting.