Health Care
Health care related firms need to manage or reduce costs in the short term while preparing for increased electronic medical record complexity in the future. Atlas Group reduces technology costs within a nine month payback by providing open source tools and ITIL processes to automate IT functions. The technology transparency tools allow 1) better management decision-making, and, 2) continuous quality improvement around technology operations going forward. Atlas Group's quality management process paves the way to effectively manage future complexity.
Atlas Group offers technology transparency and optimization in the following areas:
- Communications technology
- Information technology
- Energy expense management
These areas are presented in greater detail below.
Information Technology Savings -- Gentle IT
Gentle IT improves IT value by 15-30% where value is derived as a function of utility, performance, and cost. Value is increased by improving performance to the business via service level agreements and by lowering costs.
Atlas Group's CIO dashboard is used to create transparency into IT teams and sub-departments. The Dashboard consists of an Executive section that defines IT value per month and track costs with internal and external benchmark analysis. The Dashboard's Operations section rates IT operations and project performance against client-specific service level and IT performance targets.
Poor ratings lead to quality improvement initiatives for the affected processes. Processes are measured and improved in compliance with ITIL and PMI standards. Atlas Group offers inexpensive but high quality open source applications to automate IT processes and measurements as needed.
Communications Technology Savings -- Gentle TEM (Telecom Expense Management)
Our Gentle TEM program reduces voice, data, internet access, paging, and cellular costs by 25-50%. We start by providing a Monthly Bill Review(MBR) report to create transparency. MBR gathers raw data to produce a monthly report that audits invoices, produces and inventory, identifies usage levels, captures configurations, and analyzes vendor agreements. From this report, we receive cost recovery credits from vendors and identify optimization savings opportunities. The optimization opportunity estimates are presented for client approval. If approved, we proceed with the work and guarantee a nine month payback. Typical aggregate savings are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
Energy Expense Management Savings -- Gentle Energy
Gentle Energy is similar to Gentle TEM in that raw cost and usage data is collected from each site and analyzed. We can track electrical, gas, and oil usage along with the associated contracts. Atlas Group analyzes the invoices against contract rates and against cost levels to identify savings opportunities.
Conclusion
The technology management portfolio of Gentle IT, Gentle TEM, and Gentle Energy will help your medical facility be ready for the changes and costs of the next decade. Transparency will allow for informed decision-making while optimization will fine tune the technology infrastructure for maximum performance and value.