The Whetstone Group
Building The Bigger Vision
IT Professional Svs IT Professional Services Bridging Business Strategic and Operation Needs with Performance Enhancing Technology Solutions. Healthcare providers and payers are investing significant dollars in technology with the desire to improve regulatory and service processes, productivity and profitability. And though the technology has potential to achieve these results there are often significant communications gaps between operations and the technology implementation teams. Business users understand their operations and the technical team understands the technology…who stands in the gap to ensure that the programmers understand the nuances of the business that impact technology design or configuration? Whetstone consultants have extensive expertise in healthcare business operations and technology implementations into the healthcare domain. This unique blend of business acumen and technology solutions provides a communication bridge between all parties to assure optimization of the client's ROI on technology investments. Project Oversight Suite Projects in today’s organizations are plentiful…and their success relies heavily on strong leadership, professional project management skills and an effective change management strategy. Whetstone’s Project Oversight Methodology imbeds Change Management initiatives throughout the project life cycle, ensuring that the project objectives are not only met…they are welcomed and embraced by the stakeholders, executive team and the individuals personally impacted by the project. Whetstone provides clients with senior level resources for Project Oversight, Project Identification & Prioritization, and Project Management Software Implementation Suite Software Implementation Services provide senior management level subject matter experts, professional project managers, and technical support in addition to a sound methodology of deployment that has resulted in 98% of all projects delivered on time and within budget. Whetstone assists healthcare software vendors in identifying opportunities in the healthcare vertical and provides them with a clear understanding of how their technology becomes a business solution. Software Implementations have included: CRM Appeals & Grievance Data Warehousing Predictive ModelingBI/Decision Support RFP/RFI/RFQ Suite Clinical Management (CM/DM) Whetstone provides in depth healthcare domain expertise ensuring responses to healthcare RFPs, RFIs, or RFQs accurately align the vendor’s capabilities with the business needs of the client. |