Orchestrating Transformational Change to High-Value Healthcare

Combining strategic and operational insight with deep understanding of advanced information technologies and analytic tools, Maestro Strategies helps healthcare organizations execute strategic priorities and accelerate value creation.

Maestro helps to break through silos and overcome inertia by challenging leaders to think differently and by delivering pragmatic approaches to change.

Overcoming Organizational Obstacles

Under pressure from reform and a changing economy, healthcare providers are rushing to consolidate, clinically integrate, adopt IT, experiment with population health and improve the patient experience.

The problem is that many of these efforts are reactive rather than strategic, fragmented instead of cohesive; decisions are slow and require consensus across the entire enterprise.

How We’ve Helped Our Clients

“We recognize the importance of informatics and analytics, yet are unsure how to organize, resource and lead the effort.”

Maestro has worked with multiple health systems to create an organizational center of excellence for transformation. We help you integrate existing functions such as quality, financial decision support, performance improvement, clinical information, information technology, education and communications with new roles such as health informatics, population health management, business intelligence and change management to design new ways of working and making decisions.

“We have multiple departmental systems, enterprise financial, clinical and business systems, and external data. Yet, we commit hundreds, if not thousands of hours to collecting, massaging, analyzing and building spreadsheets and dashboards and are still unsure if we can make decisions based on those data.”

The business intelligence and analytics vendor market place is like the Wild, Wild West. Decision-makers are often unsure of where to go for help. Maestro works with clients to develop a practical plan for progress by building on the information they already have, using tools and technologies in new ways, establishing data governance teams and creating the right partnerships with low risk and high return.

“Our physicians have implemented an ambulatory EHR, employed physicians are unhappy and blame productivity losses on the system, connectivity is still a challenge with our affiliated docs, and we don’t have a handle on network leakage.”

Maestro goes beyond EHR optimization to examine all of the factors affecting the practice. We explore the impact of the patient population mix; patient experience; market position; cross-continuum processes; quality outcomes; financial results; and information technologies such as practice management, communication tools, access management, revenue management and data exchange. Through a strategy for value realization we help our clients drive actionable improvement.

“Our vendor focuses on features and functionality. They don’t understand the volume to value transition.”

Through education; product and service assessment; return on investment; and value analysis, as well as sales, implementation and support reengineering, we help solutions companies understand the required transformation to be successful in the new healthcare environment.

Insights – Thought Leadership in the Age of Reform

Maestro Insights

Competing with Analytics: Test the Waters Before You Dive In

April 20, 2016/0 Comments/in IT Strategy, Maestro Insights /by Susan Irby

Business intelligence and analytics are the new hot topics in healthcare. Significant investments are being made in enterprise performance measurement tools and clinical intelligence, with historic, predictive and prescriptive capabilities being developed for population health management, financial decision support, supply chain analytics and more. To further complicate the matter, there are literally hundreds of vendors […]

What Got Us Here, Won’t Get Us There: Strategic Planning for the Transition

March 26, 2016/0 Comments/in IT Strategy, Maestro Insights /by Pam Arlotto

Information and technology is becoming pervasive in all aspects of clinical care delivery and financial management of the health care enterprise. Healthcare business, clinical and information technology leaders agree that IT is critical to population health management and value based reimbursement. Yet, for many, day to day problems often keep IT leadership in a fire-fighting […]

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