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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.

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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.

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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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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.



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.



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.


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

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