Posts Tagged ‘Virtuosant’

Virtuosant Team Growth

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

In preparation for our newest project (in stealth mode) Virtuosant has tripled the size of its software engineering group.

Healthcare products currently in development

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Virtuosant 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, 2010

Dr. 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, 2010

As 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.

Top Tier COO joins Virtuosant

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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.

IBM/Lotus on AWS: Partner Solutions Show and Tell

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

You 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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For webinar-specific questions, contact the moderator. For technical support, contact UnyteSupport@us.ibm.com.
 
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Taking back-end data and providing actionable data for Healthcare Operations

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Many 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

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Odd 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.

Recent additions to our team

Friday, July 24th, 2009

We 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.

Virtuosant releases Version 1.1 of its Foundation Portal Software

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Today, Virtuosant Technology, Inc. announced the release of its Virtuosant Foundation Application Solution Technology (VFAST) Foundation Portal Version 1.1. VFAST Foundation Portal 1.1 delivers an elegant and comprehensive solution that produces a customized, quick start implementation of your IBM Websphere Portal® in a fraction of the time and at substantially below budget. The VFAST solution set provides a quick start portal framework that fast forwards your organization’s Websphere Portal® roll-out plan.
Custom portal implementations can be both complex and costly. A typical implementation can take over 4 months and cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. VFAST Foundation Portal 1.1 can have your portal up and running in less the 10 days.
VFAST Foundation Portal 1.1 is available as a single-install package and runs on the most current releases of IBM Websphere Portal ®.

For more information about Virtuosant Technology, Inc. VFAST Foundation Portal software, go to www.virtuosant.com or email info@virtuosant.com.

About Virtuosant Technology:
Virtuosant is a developer of unique and innovative portal products. An advanced IBM Business Partner, Virtuosant is headquartered in Ringgold, GA.
VFAST Foundation Portal™ is a trademark of Virtuosant Technology, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced herein are property of their respective owners.
You can read this press release online at: http://www.i-newswire.com/pr260623.html