Project Description
Any hospital will have issues when it comes to deploying the best IT practices. While the IT Manager is encountered with day to day problems, the Management is unable to capitalize the Systems for better decision making – mainly because the IT Manager is hard pressed to work beyond the realm of daily challenges.
It is perfect backbone for any hospital to plan its activities – be IT:
Aosta provides strategic and result oriented consultation and advice to Hospitals when it comes to IT. As experts in Healthcare IT with more than 1000 man years’ experience, Aosta is well poised with varied expertise – be it Software, Hardware, Process, People etc
- Marketing & promotion / Patient Care
- Billing and Revenue Management
- Doctor performance / Turnaround time
- Operational efficacy etc
TICK FOR AOSTA ADVANTAGE!
Hospital clients can choose “AOSTA ADVANTAGE” (AA) program. Through this Program, Aosta Expert team will do the following health check for IT and advise the best course of action through a time bound exercise. This could be the following:
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
This involves activities like analyzing the Hardware, IT Infra assets like Printers, Scanners, Camera, RFID, etc. AA Experts will also check the deployment adequacy , storage capacity, current performance, etc.
DELIVERABLES
AA will give a report on whether the Hospital uses the best in class/latest infra assets and recommend strategies for improvements (if any).
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
AA Experts will check and analyze whether the Hospital uses/adopts the correct /adequate medical technologies in accordance with near and long term business goals
DELIVERABLES
A detailed analysis to be done on fields like whether the Hospital uses the correct Hospital Management System, EMR, BI platforms etc,. to deliver value and reduce time-to-market. Study will report hospital’s readiness to embrace newer next-generation capabilities using emerging technologies like Big Data, mobile health, cloud computing, AI, Machine Learning, etc. AA team will perform end-to-end application development (can also recommend & choose partners) and help drive technology transformation initiatives (like Cloud hosting, mobile health readiness etc) and build enterprise BI / analytics solutions around the same.
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
AA Experts will analyze things like data storage, latency, up-time, encryption formats, integration aspects, etc..
DELIVERABLES
We would advise on the best back-up strategies, usage of data metrics for better business insights, security measures for preventing data leaks, usage of Software Tools and relevant hardware for data protection, etc., to ensure successful business transformation.
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
AA Experts will check the security aspects – both hardware and software and the data threats if any along with compliances’ strategy
DELIVERABLES
he security components like firewall protection, secured Wi-Fi network, antivirus, password strengths, etc. will be studied by the AA team.
Advice and implementation of right software and standards like HIPAA and other protocols for Certifications and Standards will be a part of the deliverables
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
AA Experts will analyze the practices followed for better Patient engagement and clinical advisory
DELIVERABLES
The AA team will dig deeper into the strategies followed for the marketing activities. Analysis will be done on areas like –is patient data up-to-date, how are the patient notified about their clinical data, is there any interface between the hospital and patient, follow up mechanism, etc., Based on the study, the AA team will communicate all efficient ways of patient engagement and educate the users on the tools available for the same.
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
AA experts will understand the marketing/business promotion done to lure new patients and service existing patients
DELIVERABLES
A detailed study will be made on the number of review registrations happening over a period of time. The results obtained will be analysed to state the percentage of follow up patient registrations per month. The AA team will further give insights on how to improve the count by performing activities like Loyalty Program Cards, health card schemes, follow up notifications to patients, etc.
ENGAGEMENT MODEL
AA follows a very simple engagement model to provide the above services to its clients viz Time and Material (T & M) basis.
Hospital clients can sign up AA Program which typically operates in the following manner:
- Aosta’s Senior Consultant will do an initial assessment exercise
- Aosta will present its findings based on that exercise to the Hospital Management where specific improvements or modifications have to be done across the above mentioned areas
- Based on the outcome of the meeting, Aosta will devise a customized proposal detailing the deliverables, timeline and costs
- Aosta will conclude this exercise by showing the clear metrics of improvements.