Reduce the learning curve. Maximize your investment.

SoftMed’s HIM Operational Consulting services bring an insider’s perspective to your organizational needs. We understand the HIM business and its systems, and we know how to align the two so you can get the most out of your technology investment and attain your operational goals. When it comes to assessing, designing and implementing HIM processes, SoftMed’s consultants take on the challenge… and take the pressure off of you.

Key Benefits and Features

• Defines and measures the quality of HIM services using “industry-standard” methodologies.
• Provides recommendations to improve operational performance of current HIM services and ways to leverage technology investments.
• Results in practical and achievable recommendations, implementation considerations and alternatives.
• Proposes solutions to reduce administrative operating costs and improve cash flow.
• Identifies opportunities to meet regulatory compliance standards.

 

Services Offered

• Interim Leadership — temporary responsibility for directing the entire HIM department, including supervising and scheduling staff, preparing for medical staff committee meetings, and preparing records for JCAHO-required ongoing review activities.
• HIM Department Operational Analyses — a comprehensive analysis of the entire HIM department, including an extensive document review session and a final analysis and report detailing the findings and outlining recommendations for improvement.
• Health System Integration — an analysis of dataflow and the impact of changes to HIM operations and systems caused by mergers, consolidations, acquisitions and divestitures.
• Annual Systems Assessments — a series of on-site services to ensure the optimization, stability and performance of SoftMed hardware and software platforms.
• Outsourced Implementations — a combination of services, ranging from project management to training, that enable clients to maximize the value of each application investment when outsourcing information technology.
• Transformational Application Implementations — an approach that combines strategic consulting, technology and operational redesign to stimulate and facilitate HIM change and EMR adaptation within the healthcare enterprise.