InformationHealthcare
Government regulations, new business models, an aging populace and numerous other factors are making an already complicated healthcare environment industry more complex than ever. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act alone has forced healthcare providers, payers and other organizations to change the way they do business dramatically. Often, HIPAA compliance requires multimillion-dollar system upgrades, or even outright replacements. And failure to comply—despite other business priorities—brings stiff penalties.
The role of the consumer is radically changing too. Consumers are far more aware of their need for information to make healthcare decisions–decisions that impact their health and financial well being. Collaborative has extensive experience working with healthcare participants to make information available–through portals, data management and information access, and interconnectivity across multiple systems/applications.
Collaborative features significant, demonstrated experience in healthcare payer system implementation readiness and compliance. Our experts leverage deep knowledge of healthcare standards and follow a comprehensive risk mitigation methodology that proactively minimizes project issues and streamlines transition.
We have developed a unique, comprehensive approach to ensure compliance, which minimizes changes to legacy systems. Moreover, Collaborative combines technical architecture design/technical oversight and project management, including tasking and scheduling.
Furthermore, Collaborative includes organizational change management into all healthcare projects. We know that organizational and institutional issues are more likely to derail an implementation than technical problems, so we ensure they do not arise. In addition, we recognize that in healthcare, all data is master data, and as such, must be stored and retrieved easily. Collaborative provides data harmonization and standards, to ensure all entities within an organization recognize specific data elements to mean precisely the same thing.