EHR Implementation Consultants: Services & Support

Our HIT implementation expertise spans financial, clinical, ancillary and ambulatory systems. We offer several best practice project methodologies that help reduce the time and resources required to complete cumbersome EHR implementations successfully, keeping your project both on time and on budget. By positioning hospitals and health systems to redefine their clinical and financial processes as they implement new technology, our HIT consulting & implementation services concurrently reduce project costs and boost new system acceptance.

Your EHR system is absolutely vital across the patient care journey. If not implemented correctly from the start, both clinical decision making and hospital financial stability are at stake. Whether you are conducting a phased rollout, add-ons for newly acquired facilities, or a big-bang implementation approach, our team of health IT experts understands and anticipates the complex hurdles ahead in order to correctly implement your EHR system successfully. With dedicated focus on new user adoption, clinician buy-in and satisfaction, patient care quality and safety, and workflow efficiency, we strive to make the most of your IT purchase for lasting system ROI.

Stoltenberg EHR implementation services include:

Pre-implementation planning

New process design and implementation

Present and future state analysis

Workflow assessment

System configuration, design and build

End-user design work sessions

Education program design and execution

Support planning (application) and transition

End-user readiness assessments

Integration services

Testing and quality assurance

Go-Live Training and Support

Click here to view a Stoltenberg client EHR implementation project summary.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Epic EHR Implementation

Comprised of 40 academic, community and specialty hospitals, UPMC has become well known internationally for renowned centers of excellence in cancer, psychiatry, neurosurgery, transplantation, rehabilitation, geriatrics, and women's health. As the largest non-government employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC has 92,000 staff, 800 physician offices and outpatient sites, and 4,900 employed physicians. The competitive health system boasts top-ranked hospitals and service lines. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation's best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on its "Honor Roll of America's Best Children's Hospitals."

The health system made a multi-year significant commitment to information technology transformation to integrate its Electronic Health Records (EHR) throughout its network via UPMC's accelerated ambulatory implementation strategy – a Community Connect type of implementation strategy to create a more unified and manageable health delivery system.

Part of this integration included the implementation of EpicCare Ambulatory to streamline care processes, improve community-wide health and strengthen the patient-provider relationship. In conjunction with the IT department at UPMC, Stoltenberg worked to develop a blueprint to optimize the productivity of UPMC's clinics before, during and after the implementation of EpicCare. Stoltenberg analysts assisted UPMC with implementation, maintenance and ongoing Community Connect rollout support. A key component of this rollout was the training of ambulatory staff, which included physicians, outpatient office staff, nurses and allied health personnel. This training included formal classroom training as well as training in variety of informal settings (elbow-to-elbow, by physician office, online training, etc.) for meaningful hands-on education.

Stoltenberg remained a vital partner throughout the Epic transition as the primary firm in UPMC's accelerated implementation ambulatory strategy. Enabling cross-continuum coordination, Stoltenberg helped UPMC achieve its goal to provide Epic EHR system utilization and billing services for recently acquired physician offices as quickly as mutually possible to both UPMC and the physician office organizations throughout the health system's expansion.

"A lot of our contracting with Stoltenberg Consulting is per diem work. We do have a contract with them to help with testing and upgrades, but we lock in the price with the contract. We use them just for the hours that we need and are not locked into a certain number of hours. This works really great because if we have a big upgrade, we can get a lot of hours for a good price. But if we are doing something that we do not need much help with, we do not have to use them at all. That is one of the reasons we like working with Stoltenberg Consulting. They do not lock us into things, and the hours are flexible."

- Manager/Analyst
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"Stoltenberg Consulting seems to be able to deliver high-quality, knowledgeable, and experienced analysts. They outperform the consultants from the software vendor that I am working with at the moment. Stoltenberg Consulting treats us like a real partner, regardless of whether we are doing strategic work or just outsourcing. Their services come at a good price, and they provide high productivity. For someone like me, they hit the mark perfectly. I am not sure what else they could do to be any better."

- Director/Physician
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"The difference between the Stoltenberg Consulting resources and the resources of other consulting firms that I have used is amazing. The resources are very knowledgeable and easy to get along with. Stoltenberg Consulting provides a great value."

- Director/Physician
Collected regarding HIT Implementation Support
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EHR Implementation Consultants: Services & Support

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