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This Kx ShareShop™, developed and hosted by Medical Alliances in partnership with The Emerging Technologies & Healthcare Innovation Congress, focuses on what healthcare leaders are doing to leverage technology to reduce medical errors and improve the use of knowledge at the point of need. Join us for interaction, intelligence, and insights! Each presenter will showcase a leading edge program, and interactive brainstorming and facilitated discussion will follow.
Call us to create a custom
ShareShop™ to meet your needs.
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We work with healthcare leaders to achieve performance excellence. We help organizations work smarter through sharing and collaborative innovation. We offer service lines that support healthcare organizations in the achievement of clinical and business goals.
Consulting services to achieve performance excellence through innovation acceleration, process improvement and Web services.
Management services to optimize human capital through facilitated knowledge transfer, knowledge aggregation, and collaborative innovation.
Medical Alliances collaborates with healthcare leaders to develop and operate multi-media solutions that accelerate innovation and facilitate knowledge transfer, which in turn leads to improved quality and performance excellence.

Our team of experienced professionals has extensive subject matter expertise in healthcare strategy, physician practice management, hospital and health system operations, pay for performance, physician relations, health information technology, e-health, and organizational transformation. We use this knowledge to help healthcare organizations optimize the process and technology tools they already have, and leverage human capital to affect rapid cycle change.
Additional Knowledge products and services:
An integrated experience locator and Internet-based communication service that connects inter- and intra-organizational knowledge and human know-how with searchable databases.
A search and scan knowledge aggregator, integration engine, and intelligence filter targeted for a range of health and medical clinical and business specialties.
Our recent clients include: Ascension Health Premier, Inc., Bon Secours Health Systems, Veterans Health Administration, Thomson Micromedex, and other leading healthcare organizations.
For more information about how we can help your organization innovate, share, and achieve, please contact:
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doug@medicalalliances.com 703-626-0798
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The Ascension Health Exchange - Elevating Quality and Service through Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
The Medical Alliances team is in its fourth year of delivering operational support management services to Ascension Health's widely-recognized Innovations portal. For a complete case study about the Ascension Health Exchange, please contact Cheryl Toth.
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Bon Secours Health System: QualityFirst and Six Sigma Reach for Performance Excellence
Bon Secours Health System is the largest health system in the CMS-Premier Inc. Pay for Performance demonstration project. For nearly three years, the Medical Alliances team has provided operational support service to BSHSI's QualityFirst effort, delivering valuable expertise in the areas of innovation acceleration, knowledge transfer, and process improvement. For a complete case study about this effort, please contact Maggie Fisher.
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Announcing the new book, "Medical Informatics 20/20: Achieving Quality and EHR Implementation through Collaboration, Open Solutions and Innovations" from Douglas Goldstein, Peter Groen, Suniti Ponkshe and Marc Wine
Discover how the universal COSI strategies- Collaboration, Open Solutions and Innovation- deliver tools and techniques to successfully implement clinical information technology systems.
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Now Published! Available from Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Medical Informatics 20/20 Key Benefits:
- Delivers vital insight and case studies on Collaboration, Open
Solutions and Innovation and how they are being used today by leading
private sector organizations, governments and health care leaders throughout
the world to improve quality and performance.
- Describes how world's highest quality and most widely used health
information technology system (available without license fees through the
Freedom of Information Act) is effectively supporting health systems from
Midland Texas and American Samoa to Mexico, Egypt and Finland.
- Illustrates how public and private sector leaders and corporations
such as HP, IBM and Perot Systems are using open technology solutions to
address challenges of patient safety, public health and health care quality.
- Details a roadmap for improving quality of care through Electronic
Health Records, CPOE, RHIOs enabled by open interoperable technology
solutions implemented by empowered people using the latest collaboration
tactics to improve inefficient business and clinical processes.
- Presents a compelling vision of a consumer-centric health care today
and tomorrow, while detailing strategies and tactics that deliver a
relationship advantage with customers through a next generation
Health@Everywhere approach.
"Health care is at a crossroads. Medical Informatics 20/20 identifies both
the problems faced in realizing healthcare transformation and, prescribes
vital solutions that can guide us in creating better systems to save lives,
improve quality, and reduce costs. The three strategies profiled in the
book-Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation-are prescriptions for
correcting what ails medical care. We can do better! " -Kevin Fickenscher,
MD, Executive Vice President, Healthcare Transformation, Perot Systems
Click here to purchase.
Or call Doug at 703.626.0798 for more insight.
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