EHR Implementation & Support

Unparalleled technical and operational expertise to maximize the value of your electronic health record systems

A KLAS-leading, full-service consulting partner, Impact Advisors has guided and/or supported over 100 highly successful EHR implementations. By skillfully planning and executing projects, optimizing and integrating clinical, revenue cycle, and operational workflows, and incorporating industry best practices and lessons learned, we help clients obtain greater value from their system investments.

Challenges

Increasingly complex regulatory requirements and the evolving business demands of accountable care mean the stakes have never been higher for your organization to effectively plan, implement and operate EHR systems. Implementation risk is high, given limited leadership availability, minimal staff experience, constrained budgets, tight timelines, and heightened user expectations. Whether it’s planning assistance or comprehensive program management, an independent implementation partner is essential. Typical challenges we will help you address include:

Value Delivered

Greater value and ROI

Optimizing your EHR and associated operations in parallel will unlock potential and deliver against expected ROI.

Improved operational efficiency

Our clinical and operational expertise combine to help you design a system that will enable elevated performance, now and into the future.

Increased user adoption & satisfaction

Operational readiness planning and effective change management are not only essential, they are core to our methodology.

Support when and where you need it

We offer flexible staffing models, scaling resources up or down to meet your needs and budget.

Predictable spend and lower Total Cost of Ownership

Having implemented EHR systems from all major vendors at healthcare providers of every type and size, we know what to expect and how much it will cost.

How We Deliver Value

Our proven methodology works within but also enhances the implementation frameworks of the major EHR vendors, including Epic and Oracle (Cerner) – broadening the focus to include our clients’ clinical and revenue cycle systems strategies, current environment, and business objectives.

We offer the complete continuum of EHR services.

EHR Advisory

EHR Selection
Pre-Implementation Planning
Benefits / ROI Modeling
Total Cost of Ownership Modeling
Workflow and Care Model Redesign
Clinical and Revenue Cycle Transformation
EHR Merge Assessment
EHR Affiliate Planning

EHR Implementation

EHR Application Implementation Expertise
Design and Build
Testing
Security
Operational Go-Live Readiness
EHR Instance Consolidation
Legacy Application Archiving and Decommissioning
Training

EHR Optimization

Clinician Engagement / Adoption
Post-Implementation Workflow Optimization
Regulatory Compliance

EHR Extension to Community Affiliates (Host and Recipient)

Readiness Workshop
Business, Price and Cost Modeling
Planning and Implementation
“Check-up” Assessments

EHR HIT Staffing

Temporary and Contract Staffing (Wide Variety of EHR Roles)
Lead and Support Implementation, Go-Live, Post-Live
Seasoned EHR Recruiting Team

Application Management Services

Manage “How to” Requests, Routine Maintenance, Advanced Support
Post-Live Stability
Flexible Duration and Service
Consistent Cost and Delivery
Onshore and Nearshore Resources

Learn more

Related Services

Strong Stories.

Detailed Experiences.

Case Studies.

In the last 15 years, Impact Advisors has led or supported more than 120 successful EHR implementations across a broad range of health systems, academic and community hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and physician groups.

120+

EHR Implementations

With a planned transition to Epic via Community Connect, an FQHC faced a mountain of tasks with few resources to tackle them, and a need for better internal buy-in regarding the enterprise-wide change. Impact Advisors guided the way through go-live and beyond, serving as an advocate and liaison, Epic expert, and change management leader.

6

Key Metrics Improved

To establish trust and draw Operational and IT teams together toward a shared set of objectives, Impact Advisors’ experts leveraged prior experience working in revenue cycle leadership roles, lessons learned delivering engagements at similar organizations, and design/build expertise with the client’s EHR platform.

$107M

in cash achieved in a single month

Bozeman Health was facing skyrocketing costs of living in its area, making it hard to recruit and retain the quality IT talent needed to oversee a new EHR implementation. Impact Advisors provided application managed services to help.

1,000

tickets handled in the first two waves after go-live

Our Leaders

William Faust – EHR Implementation & Support Practice Leader

Bill has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare IT. For the past 15 years, he has served exclusively in progressive leadership roles for very large and complex ambulatory and acute implementations for both Cerner and Epic clients. Bill’s deep knowledge of system implementations, combined with his strong executive presence and communication style, has helped foster excellent relationships and outcomes with clients and vendors alike.