Hospital Tele-Technology Assessments

Critical to hospital success is the execution of a tele-health assessment initiative that focuses on improved access and care through customized tele-communication strategies.

As basic healthcare IT is contributing to quality care improvements, tele-health programs are quickly becoming the next-generation driver that will directly impact patient outcomes.

Corathers Health welcomes hospital clients striving to-be-first with new and unique tele-communication care solutions.

The field is moving fast and many hospitals are at a loss for how/where to get started and because of those inadequacies some hospitals are doing virtually nothing to excel in critical categories like telemedicine.

Furthermore, this inability to progress will lead to even more significant issues in the future as telementoring, telesurgery and telerobotics become more common place.

Almost any hospital could greatly benefit from a Corathers Health tele-health strategic initiative to reveal best fit opportunities and a transitional plan of action for start-up.

Corathers Health consultants can provide unmatched tele-technology assessments for hospitals struggling with direction related to distance physician rounding, remote pharmacy, remote telemetry and more comprehensive tele-health programs/services.

Dynamic Telehealth Program Design

Validate your hospital system as a highly functioning organization with the goal of advancing each hospital to its fullest capacity. By strengthening each hospital within the system, a better system emerges.

Consider….

• Increasing Subspecialties in Community/Rural Hospitals: Impacting Utilization Rates
• Advancing Tele-Technologies: Striving to Eliminate Access Issues
• Telehealth and Productivity: FTE Utilization Programs
• Harnessing Synergy: CFO’s Driving Capacity Issues/CMO’s Driving Technology for Care
• Telemedicine ROI’s: Additional Service Revenue Streams/Cost Saving Endeavors

Robotic Solutions

Corathers Health Consulting was one of the first consulting firms in the country to embrace and further design remote physician-rounding solutions for hospitals. Such delivery models enable rural/community hospitals to provide more competitive patient care services and more aggressive physician recruitment/retention packages.

Striving to upgrade hospital strategic plans, expand services and improve quality of care, Corathers Health works to incorporate robotics (hospital based robots) into clinical services.

Surgical Program and Telesurgery Preparation Initiatives

Through the firm's continued quest to advance medical technologies for the benefit of improved patient outcomes, Corathers Health Consulting, LLC is capable of providing hospitals with unique surgical development initiatives for enhancement, sustainability and growth purposes.

As surgery programs can provide a majority percentage of a hospital’s revenue, this service may play a vital role in the hospital's ability to not only exist, but to thrive, though solid strategic planning and implementations.

Corathers Health favors unique processes that can enable community and rural hospitals to strive to become/remain viable healthcare providers through competitive surgery programs via tele-technology networking relationships with outside surgeons.

Another important value to the client, is Corathers Health’s ability to help the hospital plan and build infrastructure necessary for surgery service excellence surrounding key technologies in preparation for mainstream telesurgery.

Corathers Health offers luminary consultants on such areas as minimally invasive surgery, simulation centers, telehealth, telemedicine, telementoring, telesurgery preparatory and surgical robotics to work on special development initiatives in order to position community hospital services for success.

In addition, the firm works with industry partners and suppliers, to remove entry obstacles for certain products that are essential to surgical program growth as technologies continue to advance.

Medical Staff Technology Development Initiatives

Medical Staff Leadership plays a major role in technological advancements within the hospital setting. In today's healthcare climate, state-of-the-art technology not only impacts patient satisfaction and migration, but also greatly impacts the medical staff. A variety of technologies, including surgical, diagnostic, procedural, information and order entry technology drive physician satisfaction, retention, and cost effective and quality performances.

In addition to our firm's vast experience with physician services, Corathers Health Consulting, LLC works closely with the medical device industry. Our experience with flagship corporations and other companies of interest providing diagnostic and surgical equipment devices enables us to provide exceptional consultation in this area.

As hospitals are initiating innovation learning centers and other initiatives surrounding the advancement of technology, our services enable your hospital to apply uniquely customized and comprehensive approaches that are in direct alignment with your strategic goals, primary service lines and regional referral development. Even within the scope of Telemedicine, our initiatives can help build programs and processes that surround the added value of local specialist utilization for regional development.

CHC can assist your Medical Staff Leadership and Executive Team to benefit from the competitive edge of technology.

Medical Staff Satisfaction Assessment

The medical staff perception study is based on a qualitative process. Physician priorities are identified. Related alignments and misalignments of hospital-physician relationships and physician satisfaction are assessed. The interpreted information creates a unique foundation for positioning strategies and improvement initiatives.

University Research Program Enhancement Initiatives

Corathers Health Consulting provides research development initiatives for university medical centers in search of building stronger healthcare research programs. The firm conducts an evaluation of current offerings and designs a program map for growth initiatives based on a gap analysis. Such an approach involves a connectivity-oriented, collaborative infrastructure design.

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