• Pivot Point Consulting Announces Advisory Board to Drive Growth Strategy

    NASHVILLE, TENN. (PR WEB) January 7, 2020 — Healthcare IT consulting leader, Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company, announces a new Advisory Board to help shape and guide its growth strategy with the leadership team.

    Comprised of CEOs and senior leaders of leading healthcare IT organizations, the Advisory Board will work with the leadership team to monitor trends shaping the industry and ensure market relevance and innovation given the changing healthcare ecosystem, as well as identify both strategic resources and acquisition opportunities.

    The Advisory Board includes:

    Daniel S. Herman, Founder of Aspen Advisors and former Managing Director of Informatics and Technology at The Chartis Group

    Daniel founded and served as Managing Director of Aspen Advisors, an industry recognized information technology and operations improvement consulting firm comprised of over 150 professionals which merged with The Chartis Group in 2014. He also served as Senior Vice President in a privately held consulting firm (Dearborn Advisors, LLC), a Regional Vice President in a publicly traded healthcare information technology services firm (First Consulting Group), a manager in the healthcare consulting practice of a national CPA firm (KPMG) and an implementation manager for a healthcare software vendor (McKesson).

    For more than 30 years, Daniel advised leading academic medical centers, integrated delivery networks, physician group practices, specialty providers and provider-sponsored managed care organizations on enhancing the value of their information technology investments. An early advocate for improving care delivery and operations through the effective use of technology, he is a Life Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS), served on the Board and as a past president in the Colorado, Greater Chicago and Western Pennsylvania HIMSS Chapters and has authored numerous articles and presentations on leadership, various aspects of Healthcare Information Technology Management and obtaining value from IT investments.

    Mike Sweeney, former President and CEO of MaxIT Healthcare

    Mike was the President and CEO of MaxIT Healthcare, which was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). MaxIT employed over 1,000 consultants and specialized in the implementation and optimization of electronic health record (EHR) systems from major software vendors for healthcare organizations across North America. He also served in senior executive positions at McKesson and at Esurg, a healthcare e-commerce business. Mike brings deep experience developing and delivering a range of healthcare IT services and solutions primarily to commercial hospital groups and other medical delivery organizations. He retired after the acquisition and now serves as a Board Director and Advisor to several companies.

    “The Advisory Board illustrates Pivot Point Consulting’s commitment to exceptional quality and sustained growth. We’re grateful to have such experienced senior healthcare IT leaders at the table with us and look forward to growing our team of advisory board members to bring in other capabilities aligned with our services to shape what we’re doing today, as well as our future,” said Rachel Marano, Managing Partner.

    About Pivot Point Consulting
    Pivot Point Consulting enables healthcare organizations to realize the most value from their technology and data through their KLAS ranked advisory, implementation/optimization, managed services and talent solutions.

    The company provides strategy and consulting services for providers, payers and life sciences organizations – with 400 employees serving 85+ clients across the United States. Pivot Point Consulting has earned many industry and workplace quality awards including: Top three Best in KLAS for HIT Implementation and Support for four years running (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018), Highest Rated Vendor in KLAS Implementation Services in the Select Category (July 2017), #1 in KLAS for Epic Consulting in the Select Category (2016), #9 in Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in 2016.

    For more information about Pivot Point Consulting, visit https://pivotpointconsulting.com/. Follow us on LinkedIn.

    Emily Brock

    Marketing Specialist

    Cell: 205.586.1366

    [email protected]

    Posted 1.7.2020

  • CHIME’s 2020 Board Chair Makes Digital Strategy, Cloud Migration and Telemedicine Top Priorities

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Jan. 7, 2020 – As the 2020 chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board of Trustees, John Kravitz plans to focus on three platforms that he sees as critical for the 3.0 CIO: digital strategy, moving to cloud-hosted environments and telemedicine. Intertwined with in-depth education in these topics will be programming on leadership strategies to help senior healthcare executives transform their healthcare organizations.
     
    Kravitz, who is corporate CIO at Geisinger Health System, envisions forward-thinking presentations and use cases that detail what others have done and how they have progressed with digital strategies, cloud migrations and telemedicine. “How does IT help support moving the business forward as a strategic enabler?” he proposed as questions to be addressed. “Does a cloud migration strategy give organizations the ability to be agile, move forward faster and save costs? How does telemedicine support the digital strategy, the business strategy, and help the healthcare sector move toward a population health environment? What approaches can we share and teach others to take them down that journey?”
     
    CHIME will continue to offer peer-to-peer education featuring CHIME members and CHIME Foundation firm partners. CHIME is also expanding educational and professional development venues in 2020 to give healthcare IT executives more opportunities to build their knowledge, skills and networking. CHIME’s growing international presence allows for bi-directional education and exchanges of best practices, too, Kravitz noted. In addition, CHIME will look for ways to collaborate with others whose expertise aligns with the 3.0 initiative.
     
    As corporate CIO at Geisinger Health, Kravitz is responsible for all IT strategic planning, operational effectiveness and efficiencies. He also has global responsibility for Geisinger Health’s clinical enterprise, health plan, research and medical school. Prior to joining Geisinger Health in 2009, he served as vice president and CIO at the Good Shepherd Rehab Network in Allentown, Pa., where he provided strategic planning and managed application implementations and deployment of new IT. He earned an M.S. in Healthcare Administration and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems/Business Administration from King’s College.
     
    “John brings great perspective as a leader with vision and broad experience,” said CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell. “He looks at innovation through the lens of patient care; it is not about the technology but what we can do with technology to improve health and care. As chair, he is dedicated to helping his colleagues be strategic and trusted leaders in their healthcare organizations.”
     
    Kravitz joined CHIME in 1999 and is a CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO). In addition to serving as the 2020 Board chair, he is a member of the Policy Steering Committee and the CHIME Opioid Task Force. His tenure as chair began on Jan. 1, 2020 and will run through Dec. 31, 2020.
     
    About CHIME
     
    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs), chief innovation officers (CIOs), chief digital officers (CDOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 3,200 members in 56 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
     
    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    Posted 1.7.2020
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