Farmington, CT (October 22, 2008) - Premise Corporation today announced the addition of consulting services to its suite of patient flow solutions, led by Vice President of Consulting Services, Barbara Bryan, BSN, MBA, in order to address the growing demand for optimal patient flow and greater efficiency in hospitals.
With the addition of consulting services, Premise is now positioned to further help hospitals plan and facilitate the process redesign and culture change that is critical to patient flow optimization. It will also ensure that Premise clients optimally leverage their Premise Patient Flow Platform to achieve the greatest return on investment. Barbara Bryan, former health care practice director and national practice leader for patient throughput at Navigant Consulting, has unparalleled experience in leading patient flow improvement initiatives. As a co-founder of the Invalesco Group, which was later acquired by Navigant, she helped grow the firm into a multi-million dollar consulting company within three years. A 14-year veteran of the healthcare industry, Bryan has specific expertise helping hospitals design and implement case management, care coordination and discharge planning programs to help solve patient throughput challenges.
Premise now offers three services to help hospitals and healthcare systems optimize patient flow in a comprehensive manner, changing processes and culture while leveraging technology to ensure success:
1) Performance Check-Up: Through this triple-pronged diagnostics check, Premise evaluates technical, cultural and financial factors to measure current patient flow practices and their impact on an organization. The Premise team then identifies performance gaps and opportunities for improvement, providing realistic and practical recommendations.
2) Process Optimization: The Premise team develops a customized plan to arm organizations with the knowledge, benchmarking tools and training to ensure each client gets the most out of their technology investment.
3) Post-Optimization Check-Up: Premise revisits clients’ organizational goals after a defined period post-implementation and conducts “spot checks” to ensure processes are still aligned with patient flow goals, as well as uncover new ways to achieve greater ROI.
“One of the greatest challenges facing today’s hospitals, patient flow is a pervasive and enterprise-wide problem for many organizations,” says Bryan. “It impacts every department that interfaces with patients; therefore, any solution must be in-depth, carefully planned and very thorough. Through our consulting practice, we’re helping clients solve their patient flow challenges ‘from the inside out’ by redesigning inter and intra-departmental processes, changing organizational culture and leveraging technology.”
About Premise
Premise is a leading provider of integrated and clinically-focused software solutions and services that optimize patient flow, streamline communications, enhance operational efficiency, and empower knowledge-based decision making. Driven by the vision that optimized delivery of healthcare services can be realized through the widespread use and visualization of real-time operating data, Premise delivers the industry's most intuitive systems for bed management, bed turnover, transport, and decision support. In 2008, Premise's bed management and patient throughput solutions received the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association (AHA). For more information, please call 800-396-5578 or visit www.PremiseUSA.com