Consulting

Healthcare organizations operate with as few people as possible. Consultants can be a cost effective strategy to handle peak workload, when additional full time employees are not justified, or when the range of knowledge and skills required is too broad or diverse to fit the current structure.

Improvement Technologies, LLC can contribute to your success. As a service to busy healthcare managers, we will also attempt to locate and introduce you to other consultants when your needs fall outside our areas of expertise or we are not available.

We can help you meet the challenge of continuous compliance with JCAHO and CMS, with the Statement of Conditions, performance improvement, outsourcing/insourcing decisions, clinical engineering and facility management, and a variety of other issues.

We can also arrange workshops and conferences or mentoring programs tailored to your needs. Click here for workshops and conferences.

The following list of issues and subject areas are of current interest to healthcare managers:

CONSULTING

• Accident And Incident Investigation -- related to medical equipment
• Clinical Engineering Management
• CMS Conditions Of Participation (COP)
• Education/Training For EC Disciplines -- custom and generic programs including mentoring, for safety, security, facilities, clinical engineering, etc.
• Facilities Management
• Forensics And Expert Witness
• HIPAA Security For Medical Equipment
• Insourcing/Outsourcing Clinical Engineering
• JCAHO Compliance
• Medical Equipment Planning
• Performance Improvement
• Statement Of Conditions
• Structuring Or Restructuring EC Services -- safety, security, facilities, clinical engineering, etc.

SERVICES INCLUDE

• On site consulting services.
• Assessment and education on the latest interpretations of standards and regulations, including JCAHO, CMS COP, HIPAA.
• Performing Environmental Surveillance Rounds including staff knowledge assessment, and training staff to conduct effective rounds.
• Policy and procedure review through virtual consulting. Assistance provided without travel costs by utilizing scheduled conference calls.
• Policy and procedure development through virtual consulting.
• Facilitating the selection of specific models of medical equipment.
• Medical equipment planning.
• Assessing and prioritizing medical equipment replacement needs and developing multiyear projections.
• Evaluating the performance of clinical engineering services and recommending performance improvement processes.
• Evaluating the performance of facilities management services and recommending performance improvement processes.
• Assisting in evaluating and making decisions for in-house vs. outsourcing of clinical engineering.
• Incident/accident investigation, expert witness work.
• Comprehensive reports with specific recommendations on actions that are required for performance improvement or risk management.

Improvement Technologies, LLC is always happy to discuss our services.