Solutions for Employed or Affiliated Physicians
The Weston Group is equipped to provide a number of reliable outsourced services to hospitals especially as it relates to their affiliated and employed physician groups. The following can be provided via a custom business model including a turn-key or a time and materials basis and The Weston Group can utilize standards and best practices of the hospital organization or modify Weston standards as needed. Additionally, there are potential benefits of the ability of The Weston Group work simultaneously as a vendor to the hospital and, independently, a direct contractor to future employed physicians or affiliated physicians while complying with Stark, HITEC, HIPAA, etc. laws. This provides flexibility to accelerate activities between the hospital and the physicians.
Support of Employed Physician's Legacy Systems
Outsourcing support and maintenance of systems to The Weston Group is a reliable alternative upon acquisition of physician groups. After purchase the parent entity generally has responsibility for physician group's systems. Unless they are to be decommissioned, these systems require support and maintenance. In the case when the systems remain in while transitions occur and for historical reference/research The Weston Group can manage these systems providing OS updates and patches while working with the vendors to manage application updates and support. Lastly, security requirements of the parent facility can be applied to these systems by The Weston Group to ensure they are compliant while saving IT staff for more mission critical assignments. more . . .
EMR Support, Customization or Development
The Weston Group can augment support of various EMR's including "go-live", level one application support via The Weston Groups Help Desk and template/form development. As Hospitals provide EMR applications to affiliated or employed physicians, there can be benefits to having "off the shelf" resources to augment existing resources. This can allow existing resources to focus on other projects or allow accelarateion of the speed of deployment. more . . .
System Go-Live Support
The Weston Group can augment Go-Live support for systems deployment in a low risk manner. Hospitals deploying systems may need short term alternatives for additional resources to provide support in Go-Live situations.. more . . .
Clinical Integration
The Weston Group has a long history of integration of various healthcare systems including both those internal and external to an organization. As the need for interfacing continues to expand, The Weston Group can provide architecture and development assistance for connections to HIE's, labs, partners and systems within or without the organization. more . . .
Infrastructure Assessments / Readiness Evaluation
The Weston Group's approach lowers the cost of these activities providing quick evaluation and allowing customization of the output facilitating measurement of a new environment against organizational standards. In the case when a system needs to be deployed to an affiliated physician group or to an employed physician group, The Weston Group has an approach that lowers the cost of this activity and customizes the output to allow quick evaluation of systems and networks against the standard. more . . .
Infrastructure Remediation
The Weston Group can quickly and flexibly provide teams based expertise to remediate or bring any environment to organizational standards. Where systems and networks do not meet standards, The Weston Group can work in a team fashion to assist ranging from architecting of resolutions through remediation. The Weston Group has specialty expertise in many standard disciplines allowing reliability resolution of these needs. more . . .
Help Desk Support
The Weston Group can provide support via their 24x7 Help Desk. The Help Desk can provide support for standard desktop applications or other support needs
Timeshare IT Design, Implementation, Management & Support
The Weston Group can provide a turnkey solution for IT aspects of timeshares for physician groups providing additional mechanisms for expansion. Hospitals which are creating timeshare workspaces in buildings adjacent to their facilities may find value in the turn-key outsourcing of IT aspects of these environments ranging from design through implementation to ongoing support and maintenance. In some cases, this provides those involved a single point of contact for the varied needs of these spaces providing the end physicians a reliable and secure environment. more . . .
Weston Performance Services
The Weston Group provides Performance Services as a partnering approach with clients allowing resolution of complex IT problems within a fixed cost agreement.
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Outsourcing IT Hardware & Software Maintenance Problems
When you need ad-hoc expert support, our goal is to keep your systems up and running, providing stability in your IT system that translates into profitability and human resource efficiencies.
We provide IT support for software, hardware and network needs and are available any time you need us. We remove the technical distractions so that physicians and management can focus on the business of medicine.
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