We are extremely pleased to announce a new member to our team, Armel Crocker. Mr. Crocker is a tenured Healthcare Executive with twenty plus years in progressive healthcare consulting across all functional areas, including regional and national management, MCO’s, HMO’s and IPA sales, business development, physician practices and specialty disease-specific industries. Mr. Crocker has extensive knowledge in business plan development, customer acquisition, physician relations, provider operations, practice acquisition, contract negotiations, and profit optimization. He brings exceptional skills to Virtuosant in building channel relationships, healthcare e-commerce, creative business collaboration, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic planning. Additionally, he has an excellent track record of organizational leadership and the ability to help clients build value, manage risk, and improve performance. Mr. Crocker earned his BBA from Texas Wesleyan College and his MS from North Texas State University.
Top Tier COO joins Virtuosant
November 20th, 2009IBM/Lotus on AWS: Partner Solutions Show and Tell
September 16th, 2009You have been invited to attend the following event:
Lotus on AWS: Partner Solutions Show and Tell
Date: 10/01/2009
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 EDT (GMT-04:00)
Presented By: Adam Ginsburg (IBM), Stephan Beauchesne (WebRadar), Eleanor Anderson-Miles (Virtuosant), David Strachan (Open Logic), Daniel Nelson (phurnace.com), Steven Gerhardt (Ixion LLC)
Description:
Join this session to find out how a number of IBM partners are using IBM on AWS to help build and deliver more competitive and compelling solutions for their customers. Each partner will showcase their solution, experience and tips for building cloud solutions with IBM Lotus software on Amazon Web Services. Amazon Machine Images cover include WebSphere Portal Server, Lotus Web Content Management, IBM Mashup Center and Lotus Forms Turbo.
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Taking back-end data and providing actionable data for Healthcare Operations
September 8th, 2009Many business enabling technologies make ROI claims of 6 to 18 months. These claims are often hindered by deployment pre-requisites and data setups that take over a year, on average, to complete thus delaying any ROI for at least one and a half years. Virtuosant Technologies offers products that truly enable strategic decisions to take place so that executives and managers can drive their business. Regardless if you want to see high level pro-forma, daily healthcare KPIs, or make changes to staffing models for PACU or your emergency room, Virtuosant’s products will enable you to take data to decision to action within weeks.
Having data in multiple sources across multiple platforms is an all too common challenge for IT leaders and executives. Technology managers struggle to get data into the hands of executives in a timely basis with several sorts of data extracts, merging, ETL, and consolidation techniques. Executives often deal with reading data that is inaccurate, untimely, and is often based on events that have already happened. During this time, executives are scratching their heads wondering if they can ever get one view of the data based on present actions, one version of the truth, so they can make decisions to better manage their operations and profitability. Having on-demand reports that touch all data sources regardless of platform moves from a wish to a demand. Sharing this data via an easy to use high distributable medium is a must.
Virtuosant’s VFAST products provide a platform for integration products that drives down the cost of development, which is the most expensive cost contained in any integration project. Custom coding and development is frequently employed to tackle the wide variety of situations that an integration team encounters during the course of an integration project. As a result of these additional, custom needs, integration projects frequently start small, but grow more quickly than initially expected.
Integration teams face many critical issues during integration projects. Issues include determining how to access all the critical data stored in obscure systems needed to fuel a mission-critical decision process; how to bring together partners in the supply or demand chains that employ widely disparate systems and business processes; how to integrate technology – the applications living in the infrastructure – to the human business processes, and then quickly adapt when factors change inside and outside the organization; and how to comply with industry standards such as ACORD, HIPPA, EDI, HL7, SWIFT, etc.
Not surprisingly, these are the same challenges that result in higher development costs, when more and more highly-skilled developers are thrown at integration projects to handle connectivity
issues, refactoring custom code as situations change, and chasing down ever-changing standards requirements. Virtuosant has embedded this integration platform with its VFAST products. Companies will spend more time obtaining, reviewing and documenting business requirements than implementing our products.
Our VFAST products provides a robust integration platform that is data source and platform agnostic thus enabling managers and executives immediate access to custom reports and event snap shots of their healthcare operations.
Bleeding Expense Budgets
August 28th, 2009Odd enough, but in this day and age, one would think that every IT department has a strong understanding of their spending. After countless conversations with IT managers and directors, I found that 8 out of 10 have line items in the detailed trial balance that they cannot identify. Essentially speaking, they have expenses that are based on legacy sun downed systems and maintenance agreements. We have all seen duplicate spend, duplicated data, systems, software, etc. that overlaps efforts, saves duplicated data files, just to contribute to the morass of “systems” and data redundancy.
Instead of searching for a way to secure new funding for the right system in the right place for the right business purpose, we should consider funding such business enabling technologies from the consolidation of our existing IT spending. Something as small as a maintenance agreements and support contracts can easily fund such a business changing product like the HCOP.
Managing Health Care IT Costs
August 17th, 2009The IT challenges facing a small to medium health care provider are huge. Their budgets are tight and needs high. At the same time, the IT infrastructure of the small to medium sized health care provider is woefully inadequate. And the recent discussions around health care reform have complicated matters even more. Do providers need improved methods of managing health care records, better ways to deliver patient care or do they need a better way to manage their business?
One of the biggest questions surrounding health care reform today is – who will pay for it? The taxpayer? Insurance companies? Hospitals? Doctors? Or all of the above… The answer to this question has literally inflamed the nation.
Like any business health care providers need to focus on the bottom line. How do I manage expenses while fueling growth and increasing revenues? Unfortunately, their IT infrastructure does not support this. Health care administrators and business managers are often still paging through paper reports to determine the status of their businesses! These doctors and managers need visibility into labor utilization levels and costs, how many beds are open or will be and what does my budget to actual really look like?
So here is a thought. By focusing the IT spend on improving the “business” side the hospital will be able to better manage their expenses. The reduction of expenditures should increase revenues. Now what should we do with that money?
Virtuosant Using IBM/Amazon Cloud for Product Development
August 8th, 2009In Feb 2009 IBM announced a new agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., to deliver IBM’s market leading software to clients and developers. Shortly afterwards Virtuosant began utilizing this environment for it’s product development. This has allowed Virtuosant to move quickly in building out it’s development environments at a lower cost than buying or leasing physical or virtual servers.
Virtuosant will also be offering it’s customers the ability to have their products hosted in the cloud.
Virtuosant’s Foundation Portal running in IBM Innovation Center
August 8th, 2009Virtuosant was invited by IBM to deploy it’s ‘Virtuosant Foundation Portal’ (VFP) on a Lotus Foundations Appliance located in one of it’s innovation centers. In a short period and via remote deployment, BJ Grau (VP of Pro Services) now has VFP up and running in the IBM IC located in Waltham, MA.
Virtuosant offers IBM Lotus Foundations
August 8th, 2009Are you a small company that would like to have some of the same IT advantages as a larger company but at a low cost and doesn’t require an IT administrator? As an Advanced IBM partner, Virtuosant is an approved software and hardware seller and can quickly get your company up and running with internal email, office tools, backup, instant messaging and security, just to name a few of the many professional level technical tools that are all provided via one self managing, self healing, software and appliance. Below are some links to videos where you can learn more about the product but please don’t hesitate to call us with any questions as we are currently selling the solutions at close to cost.
Lotus Foundations Overview: http://www.lotusfoundations.com/videos.php
Taking the Worry Out of Your Software: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Taking-the-Worry-Out-of-Your-Software/
Competitive Advantages of Lotus Foundations: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Competitive-Advantages-of-Lotus-Foundations-Start/
MS SBS 2003 Virtualized on LF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25jpiVjheU
Review of LFS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DOjm8xKW4s
Free Telephony on LF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalyeSrc_n8
Cool medical app running on LF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnYIYHjm1qo
Virtuosant joins Georgia ATDC
August 1st, 2009Virtuosant has joined the Georgia ATDC (based in Atlanta). The ATDC has entered a new phase in its development and growth, and Virtuosant is hoping to play a valuable role as well as grow from the many benefits the ATDC brings to young technology companies. More info about ATDC can be found at PeachSeedz.com (the ATDC blog)
Recent additions to our team
July 24th, 2009We are thrilled to announce to recent additions to our team.
Eleanor Anderson-Miles, CMO
Eleanor brings over 20 years of healthcare strategic marketing experience to her role as Virtuosant’s Chief Marketing Officer. Through her background in sales, product management, and marketing with several healthcare information technology companies, she excels in understanding how to realize market potential. Using extensive research into target markets and audiences, she crafts well-founded messaging, branding, sales approaches, and marketing initiatives that resonate with the marketplace. She has rebranded four healthcare companies (IDX, Solucient, NORCAL Mutual, and MECON), as head of the Business Decision Unit at Solucient, she led the successful integration of three product management groups post-merger, and has consistently supported sales efforts that have resulted in exponental growth. Ms. Anderson-Miles earned her BA and MA from the University of California, Berkeley. Through Eleanor’s addition Virtuosant has now established its West coast presence.
Patrick Martin, VP of Sales
Patrick has more than twenty years experience in healthcare and technology sales, bringing new technology to hospital/alternate care setting. He has demonstrated expertise in discovering new business, bringing new concepts to market and building a sales organization around new start-up concepts. He has worked for such distinguished firms as Oncology Therapeutics Network which became the largest specialty distributor in the US with sales of over $1B before being acquired by Bristol-Meyers-Squibb. Mr. Martin has also held a variety of sales leadership roles with companies such Xerox, Abbott Laboratories and McKesson.