• Impact Advisors Hires John Lanari and Kristi Lanciotti as Vice Presidents

    Healthcare IT and Application Management Services experts to join senior leadership team

    Naperville, IL (December 12, 2023) Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare management consulting firm, has announced that John Lanari and Kristi Lanciotti have joined its Strategic Implementation Team as vice presidents. Lanari will drive value for clients through integrated technologies and services and Lanciotti will lead delivery for application management services (AMS) and legacy support.

    Impact Advisors offers comprehensive AMS solutions that manage teams and deliver outcomes for EHRs, ERPs, and the portfolio of live and legacy healthcare applications. The firm’s solutions guide healthcare organizations through transformation and adapt service to the corresponding focus and demands at each phase.

    The duo combines over 30 years in the healthcare industry and has demonstrated success building AMS practices while delivering exceptional results to clients.

    • Lanari levels financial realities with experiences and outcomes, aligning the goals, risks, rewards, and investments that guide IT in the service of patient care. He embeds agility for long-term partnership and shared success, and he earns trust by matching expectations with execution.
    • Lanciotti fuses the vision of healthcare leaders with the dedication of trusted teams, balancing change with operations and continuous improvement initiatives. She has earned trust leading physician groups, EHR implementations, and managed application teams at scale.

    Their combined talents, collaborative approach, and entrepreneurial spirit will enable Impact Advisors to further penetrate the healthcare market with its continuum of services and accelerate value to clients.

    Posted 12.13.2023

  • Philips’ 2023 Human Rights Report details the company’s commitment to upholding human rights and its progress over the last year.

    Philips’ Human Rights Report 2023 – continued progress

    Cambridge, MA (December 7, 2023) “Philips is committed to acting responsibly towards the planet and society, as also reflected in our ESG commitments. Our 2023 Human Rights Report and the concrete actions it contains illustrate our continued focus on embedding our ESG priorities in our global business practices.” Marnix van Ginneken, Chief ESG & Legal Officer, Royal Philips

    Upholding human rights is a critical component of doing business responsibly and sustainably, and forms a key element of the company’s Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) framework that guides our business strategy.

    Philips’ 2023 Human Rights Report, published in advance of Human Rights Day on December 10, details the company’s commitment to upholding human rights and its progress over the last year.

    Mitigating and addressing operations and supply chain risk
    For the last five years, Philips’ Human Rights Impact Assessment program has focused on gaining insights, fostering constructive dialog, and mitigating potential risks to the human rights of Philips employees. Having expanded the program in 2022, in 2023, Philips conducted Human Rights Impact Assessments at its sites in Pune (India) and Varginha (Brazil), living up to its commitment of conducting HRIAs at 100% of its at-risk sites by 2023. As the company looks to the future, its primary focus is on enhancing these sites through a dedicated emphasis on maturity and capability building.

    As a responsible business, Philips is committed to securing a strong, stable and sustainable supply chain to enable us to improve people’s health and well-being. As part of this, it has pledged to improve the lives of one million workers in the supply chain by 2025. The company’s Supplier Sustainability Performance program, implemented in 2016, has resulted in improved labor conditions, reduced the risk of serious injury and lowered the negative environmental impact of our suppliers. Philips also continues to invest in strengthening supplier diversity, with a goal to double total spend on diverse-owned suppliers based in North America by 2024.

    Building a more diverse and inclusive company
    Philips continues to strengthen its efforts to build a more inclusive culture, where people are valued and accepted for who they are, and where everyone can be themselves.

    Full and equal participation of women is crucial for fostering innovation, productivity, and sustainable economic growth. In 2023, Philips continued to move closer to its goal of 35% gender diversity in senior leadership positions by 2025, with women today representing 31% of those roles. In September of this year, to further strengthen the company’s commitment to gender equality, Philips’ CEO Roy Jakobs signed the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), which offer guidance to businesses on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community.

    But it’s not just gender diversity where we the company is focusing its efforts. Employee Resource Groups provide an inclusive space for employees and are becoming an increasingly important mechanism to drive progress across our organisation. Building on an inaugural mentoring pilot in partnership with the Black Employee Resource Group in 2022, which aimed to raise awareness and combat racism, a second program was concluded in 2023 in partnership with the Black, Latin, and Asian Employee Resource Groups.

    Striving to increase healthcare accessibility
    Health is a fundamental human right. Yet half the world’s population lacks access to the health services they need – and global pressures like climate change, conflict, disease outbreaks, and the rise of chronic diseases are disrupting health systems and slowing progress toward health for all.

    As a leader in health technology, Philips can help make a difference by improving access to sustainable healthcare.

    Collaboration between the public and private sectors is critical to driving meaningful impact, and is a core feature of delivering on Philips’ purpose and ESG commitments. Through shared-value partnerships, the company is creating innovative digital solutions and new business and financing models that are both sustainable and scalable.

    In November, Philips announced additional funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who it has worked with since 2021 to accelerate global development of AI algorithms on the Philips Lumify Handheld Ultrasound. The AI algorithms simplify six key measurements during pregnancy, and early results in Kenya have shown that the technology has helped drive better-informed decision-making when triaging pregnant women. The new funding boost will support further development of the tool for underserved communities globally. Philips is also responsibly embedding AI and data science in its propositions to aid clinical decision making, expand healthcare access, and improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services – especially in medically underserved communities.

    Contact
    Joost Maltha
    Philips Global Press Office
    Tel: +31 6 10 55 8116

    Posted 12.8.2023

  • Impact Advisors Receives High Overall Performance Score in KLAS Data & Analytics Services Report

    Firm noted for most consistent client experience and securing stakeholder buy-in

    CHICAGO, IL (December 4, 2023) — Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare management consulting firm, has been recognized as a top provider of data & analytics services by KLAS Research.

    The report, “Data & Analytics Services 2023,” outlined the types of consulting engagements and performance among analytics firms. Survey respondents were asked questions focused on five customer experience pillars including loyalty, operations, relationship, services and value. Impact Advisors received an overall performance score of 95 out of 100.

    In the report, interviewed clients viewed Impact Advisors as the go-to firm with the ability to form strategic, long-term partnerships. The consultants were also noted as knowledgeable and productive. Impact Advisors was the highest-rated firm for securing stakeholder buy-in and promoting organizational alignment. Clients highlight the firm’s uniquely qualified staff, including physicians and nurse scientists,
    who helped drive buy-in from clinical staff . As the report noted, securing stakeholder buy-in is an integral part of the success of data and analytics strategies.

    “It’s critically important to have C-level alignment and commitment, as well as strategic utilization of data, to leverage generative AI in healthcare transformation,” said Liam Bouchier, vice president, Data & AI, at Impact Advisors. “We are proud Impact Advisors is leading the industry in securing strong stakeholder engagement, a key factor in maximizing the value potential of data-driven transformations.”

    An interviewed vice president shared the comprehensive approach offered by the firm, “We brought Impact Advisors in to do a full assessment of our approach to enterprise data analytics. We were looking at everything f rom the products that we were using to the way we had analytics structured across the corporation. Then they provided recommendations for optimal structure and roadmaps for how to get from where we were to where we needed to be. They also helped advise us along the way and stand up some of the capabilities that were missing.”

    Impact Advisors was recognized as being widely used across all data and analytics services engagement categories. The firm offers a broad portfolio of solutions to help healthcare clients, including analytics architecture, governance, operational analytics and data migration strategies.

    About Impact Advisors
    Impact Advisors is a leading healthcare management consulting firm committed to solving the industry’s emerging and evolving challenges. Our high-performing team of clinical, financial, operations and technology experts collaborate to architect quality solutions and deliver measurable value for our clients. We are the most awarded consulting firm in healthcare, with services recognized among Best in KLAS® for 16 consecutive years and a culture designated “Best Place to Work” by Modern Healthcare for 14 years. To learn more about our service quality and innovative culture, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

    Posted 12.7.2023

  • FDB Vela™ Achieves HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-Year Certification Demonstrating the Highest Level of Information Protection Assurance

    Certification validates the FDB Vela™ commitment to strong cybersecurity and meeting key regulations to protect sensitive data

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 6, 2023) — FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, announced today that its FDB Vela™ ePrescribing network, one of FDB’s newest solutions, has earned HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrating the highest level of information protection assurance.

    FDB Vela, which was launched in March 2022, is a cloud-native ePrescribing network that enables the seamless flow of critical medication prescription information, benefits verification and clinical decision support between prescribers, payers, pharmacies and other constituents.

    HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrates that FDB Vela has met demanding regulatory compliance and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places FDB in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards and frameworks and by incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

    “FDB Vela was launched last year on the core belief that an ePrescribing network should be open, highly scalable and flexible while offering cybersecurity peace of mind across all our participants,” said FDB President Bob Katter. “Earning the HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified Certification so soon after our launch demonstrates to health IT developers, pharmacies, providers and payers that FDB Vela has achieved the highest standards for data protection and information security while empowering participation and fostering innovation.”

    To achieve the HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification, FDB Vela surpassed requirements across various comprehensive cybersecurity and data protection domains. The certification process also includes testing of controls developed from input from over 100 security professionals. 

    “HITRUST Certification is globally recognized as validation that information security and privacy controls are effective and compliant with various regulations,” said HITRUST Chief Innovation Officer Jeremy Huval. “HITRUST Certification is considered the gold standard because of the comprehensiveness and applicability of the control requirements, depth of the assurance process and level of oversight that ensures accuracy. Individually, each element exceeds most other programs and collectively they make HITRUST Certification the most comprehensive, transparent, consistent and highest quality assessment available.”

    Along with its demonstrated security controls, FDB Vela is built on a highly scalable and fully redundant platform hosted on Microsoft® Azure servers. FDB Vela includes API integration enabling electronic health record (EHR) developers to readily tap into features such as real-time pharmacy benefit services and electronic routing for specialty drugs to create services, customize ePrescribing workflows and streamline processes. FDB Vela also supports all ePrescribing standards set by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and other pharmacy organizations. 

    “We built FDB Vela with a ‘security-first’ architecture, an industry-recognized term that means it was developed using rigorous protocols and design elements that HITRUST and other cybersecurity authorities evaluate during their certification processes,” said FDB Vela General Manager Lathe Bigler. “By starting with a security-first mindset and leveraging the latest secure technologies in our design, FDB Vela earned HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certification in only six months, which is a remarkable achievement. Our commitment to protecting patients and our network participants will continue in the years ahead as we diligently maintain and proactively improve our controls well ahead of cybersecurity risks.” 

    About FDB 
    FDB (First Databank) creates and delivers the world’s most powerful drug knowledge that ignites, inspires, and illuminates critical medication decisions. We collaborate with our partners to help improve patient safety, operational efficiency, and health outcomes. Our drug databases drive healthcare information systems that serve the majority of hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies, payers, and all other areas of healthcare and are used by millions of clinicians, business associates, and patients every day. FDB Vela is a cloud-native electronic prescribing network that enables the seamless flow of critical medication prescription information, benefits verification, and clinical decision support between prescribers, payers, and pharmacies.
    To learn more about FDB Vela, please visit fdbvela.com. For a complete look at FDB’s other solutions and services, please visit fdbhealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

    About Hearst Health.
    The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company Aster Insights. Follow Hearst Health on LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.

    Media Contact 
    Tara Stultz
    Amendola Communications for FDB
    M: 440-225-9595
    [email protected]

    Posted 12.7.2023

  • Impact Advisors Receives High Overall Performance Score in KLAS Data & Analytics Services Report

    Naperville, IL (December 5, 2023) Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare management consulting firm, has been recognized as a top provider of data & analytics services by KLAS Research.

    The report, “Data & Analytics Services 2023,” outlined the types of consulting engagements and performance among analytics firms. Survey respondents were asked questions focused on five customer experience pillars including loyalty, operations, relationship, services and value. Impact Advisors received an overall performance score of 95 out of 100.

    In the report, interviewed clients viewed Impact Advisors as the go-to firm with the ability to form strategic, long-term partnerships. The consultants were also noted as knowledgeable and productive. Impact Advisors was the highest-rated firm for securing stakeholder buy-in and promoting organizational alignment. Clients highlight the firm’s uniquely qualified staff, including physicians and nurse scientists, who helped drive buy-in from clinical staff. As the report noted, securing stakeholder buy-in is an integral part of the success of data and analytics strategies.

    “It’s critically important to have C-level alignment and commitment, as well as strategic utilization of data, to leverage generative AI in healthcare transformation,” said Liam Bouchier, vice president, Data & AI, at Impact Advisors. “We are proud Impact Advisors is leading the industry in securing strong stakeholder engagement, a key factor in maximizing the value potential of data-driven transformations.”

    An interviewed vice president shared the comprehensive approach offered by the firm, “We brought Impact Advisors in to do a full assessment of our approach to enterprise data analytics. We were looking at everything from the products that we were using to the way we had analytics structured across the corporation. Then they provided recommendations for optimal structure and roadmaps for how to get from where we were to where we needed to be. They also helped advise us along the way and stand up some of the capabilities that were missing.”

    Impact Advisors was recognized as being widely used across all data and analytics services engagement categories. The firm offers a broad portfolio of solutions to help healthcare clients, including analytics architecture, governance, operational analytics and data migration strategies.

     

    About Impact Advisors
    Impact Advisors is a leading healthcare management consulting firm committed to solving the industry’s emerging and evolving challenges. Our high-performing team of clinical, financial, operations and technology experts collaborate to architect quality solutions and deliver measurable value for our clients. We are the most awarded consulting firm in healthcare, with services recognized among Best in KLAS® for 16 consecutive years and a culture designated “Best Place to Work” by Modern Healthcare for 14 years. To learn more about our service quality and innovative culture, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

    Posted 12.6.2023

  • RCG Global Services renews its CHIME foundation membership, fortifying its pledge to drive innovation and transformation within the healthcare sector.

    ISELIN, NJ (December 5, 2023) RCG Global Services, a renowned global consultancy specializing in digital transformation, proudly renews its affiliation with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Foundation (CHIME Foundation), an affiliate of CHIME. This renewal underscores RCG’s unwavering commitment to driving healthcare innovation and technological advancement.
    In continuing its vital role within the CHIME Foundation, RCG remains dedicated to empowering members and their organizations with cutting-edge resources, expert guidance, and innovative solutions that propel digital transformation in healthcare. Dr. Rob Nelson, Head of Healthcare Sciences at RCG, expressed enthusiasm for this renewed partnership, stating, ‘We’re thrilled to be part of this prestigious community, tackling pivotal healthcare challenges such as sustainable systems, digitally-driven innovations, and patient-centric care models like personalized medicine and wellness consumerism.’ As Healthcare CIOs and hospital systems navigate the evolving landscape of digital transformation, RCG Global Services stands firm in leveraging and expanding digital capabilities to enhance value-based care and tailor services for a seamless customer experience as sentient enterprises. Ramesh Ramani, CEO of RCG Global Services, affirmed, ‘Our ongoing commitment to the CHIME community is integral to our mission of revolutionizing healthcare. We bring unparalleled expertise in healthcare, retail, consumer, and hospitality sectors, delivering proven digital transformation and advanced analytics solutions.’

    Continuing to engage with CHIME events, RCG eagerly collaborates with healthcare providers nationwide to uncover and harness untapped value sources.

    For more insights into the CHIME Foundation, visit https://chimecentral.org/foundation/.

    To explore RCG Global Services and its transformative consulting solutions, please visit rcgglobalservices.com.

    About The CHIME Foundation
    The CHIME Foundation is a non-profit organization that allows healthcare IT vendors, service providers, and consultants to network and connect with the nation’s top healthcare IT leaders through a variety of online and in-person social platforms. We offer our Foundation partners unparalleled access to the nation’s top healthcare IT leaders. To learn more about the history of the CHIME Foundation, visit https://chimecentral.org/foundation/

    About RCG Global Services
    RCG is a global provider of digital transformation consulting services, combining digital strategy and modern cloud and data technologies to deliver measurable business outcomes for customer engagement, workforce enablement, and operations optimization. RCG helps customers ignite transformational thinking and unlock new value throughout their journey to achieve their digital ambitions. RCG serves Fortune 1000 enterprise clients across a range of markets, with special emphasis on the consumer, financial services and insurance, and healthcare industries. RCG is based in Iselin, New Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, and offshore delivery centers in the Philippines and India. For more information, please visit rcgglobalservices.com.

    Posted 12.5.2023