In preparation for our newest project (in stealth mode) Virtuosant has tripled the size of its software engineering group.
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Virtuosant Team Growth
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Healthcare products currently in development
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Virtuosant is currently in stealth mode developing two healthcare products that will significantly benefit healthcare providers. In order to insure timely development we have recently doubled the size of our top notch software engineering team. More to come!
Virtuosant welcomes Doctor onboard as CMO
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Dr. Belaval, an experienced senior healthcare executive and practicing physician, will be responsible for the medical leadership of Virtuosant.
Dr. Belaval is a hospital change management expert who has led change initiatives that have resulted in significant improvement, and will provide Virtuosant with extensive and valuable leadership in our product development initiatives.”
“Virtuosant has the right technology and product vision for today’s healthcare environment,” said Dr. Belaval. “I have seen the challenges first hand that we face in getting the right information when we need it. The relationship between the best care, revenue management and optimization, and quality core measures is a challenge to balance. I believe that Virtuosant’s approach will allow providers to connect effectively all the aspects of care processes, quality, and financial management. Not only does Virtuosant understand the need for melding critical applications so that they will provide key business intelligence, but Virtuosant also understands the need to keep price points at a manageable level. I keep my eye on the best care possible; Virtuosant will support that goal soundly.”
Dr. Belaval is a Board Certified Emergency Physician with a decade of experience leading and improving Emergency Departments as a Medical Director and Healthcare consultant. In addition to his work as a practicing Emergency physician, Dr. Belaval is an accomplished Hospital Change Management expert who concentrates on Hospital Patient Flow Process Redesign and Emergency Department operational efficiency. Dr. Belaval completed his medical studies at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, his Internal Medicine Internship at Yale New Haven Hospital, and his Emergency Medicine Residency at Boston Medical Center.
Another outstanding addition to our leadership team as CIO
Saturday, February 20th, 2010As Virtuosant’s Chief Information Officer, James Barbaglia has a vast experience providing innovative information technology and strategic solutions that focus on clinical, operational and financial performance improvement within the healthcare industry. With over 25 years of experience, he has held leadership positions with healthcare provider, consulting and vendor organizations including Valley Baptist Health System; CSC; Cap Gemini Ernst & Young; and Siemens Medical Solutions. At Valley Baptist Health System, Jim served as the Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, where he was responsible for all aspects of technology enterprise-wide; establishing an integrated vision to enhance services while decreasing costs. Jim is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and holds Bachelor of Science in Political Science & Public Administration from Central Michigan University.
Taking back-end data and providing actionable data for Healthcare Operations
Tuesday, 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.
Recent additions to our team
Friday, 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.
Joined the Chattanooga Tech Council
Friday, July 24th, 2009Virtuosant recently joined the Chattanooga Technology Council. Although we are a virtual office company with people in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco (to name a few), we are very happy to have beautiful Chattanooga, TN as our corporate headquarters. http://bit.ly/pColV