2. Core Values
Optimum Healthcare IT is committed to developing long term business partnerships with our
clients. We are not just another vendor or consulting agency, we are our clients’ partners.
Driven by a leadership team with more than 20 years of experience in staffing and consulting, we
work extremely hard to deliver undeniable quality for our clients and earn their business. This
philosophy starts at the top of the organization and is the core value we instill in all employees
and consultants.
The founders have staffed consultants at over 100 Healthcare clients throughout the United
States. Our team has an extensive network of over 1,500 consultants with a diverse array of skill
sets. We have a proven recruiting engine that delivers high quality personnel with a shared
sense of urgency.
Our enduring commitment to improve the quality of Healthcare is the motivating factor that
drives our leadership team, consultants and support staff to work exceptionally hard for our
clients.
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3. Why Optimum Healthcare IT?
COST SAVINGS BUSINESS MODEL
Our business model enables us to pass our cost saving strategy onto our clients. We accomplish this through a strategic approach to
consulting which is rooted in a staff augmentation philosophy. Optimum Healthcare IT’s main driver is its powerful recruiting
backbone. We employ a large network of experienced full time recruiters. Their only job is to interview and pipeline extraordinary
consultants. The fact that we are able to drive down internal costs, enables us to pass the cost savings to our clients in the form of
reduced bill rates for expert resources.
QUALITY CONSULTANTS
Optimum Healthcare IT has the ability to quickly identify, screen and deliver quality consultants to our clients. Our team of internal
recruiters is able to source consultants that are highly experienced and deliver them when our clients need it. The fact that
Optimum Healthcare IT Consultants have completed multiple projects of a similar nature provides our clients with an experienced
consultant that exceeds the quality of most “in house” resources a typical consulting firm offers. In addition, Optimum Healthcare
IT is not limited to our internal streamlined bench, we have an endless pool of highly skilled consultants to attract and screen.
Optimum Healthcare IT is constantly utilizing a network of resources, including social media, to create an enviable database of
qualified, certified and pre- screened candidates.
OPTIMUM HEALTHCARE IT IS PRIVATELY HELD
Being privately held benefits both our clients and consultants by enabling creativity and flexibility to meet all of the specific
consulting needs required by our clients. Optimum Healthcare IT has the ability to implement quick adjustments to accommodate
the vacillation of our clients’ staffing and project needs. Additionally, we have flexibility with pricing to fit client budgets and
customize the onboarding process for each client.
LARGE HEALTHCARE CLIENT EXPERTISE
Optimum Healthcare IT’s owners have worked with hundreds of healthcare systems and large hospitals across the country. They
have managed and staffed numerous Healthcare projects. Optimum Healthcare IT has a national and global pool of qualified 3
resources for multiple applications including Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Soarian, Mckesson, Nextgen, etc.
4. Gene Scheurer
Chief Executive Officer
Gene is a proven leader in the implementation of complex Healthcare IT projects throughout the U.S. In the past seven years,
Gene has worked with some of the top healthcare providers to deliver flexible clinical application solutions, saving providers
millions of dollars in implementation costs.
He developed a business model that provided comprehensive training and implementation programs that ensures effective and
timely execution at a fraction of the cost. Within this model, our process utilizes a national network of pre-qualified resources and
established implementation processes to provide training and implementation services at an average 60% cost savings.
Gene oversaw 40 simultaneous training and implementation programs while President and founder of CSI Tech. These programs
ranged from full scale project management of large health system implementations to smaller staff augmentation teams. These
included projects for clients such as Community Health Systems, Tenet Healthcare, Sutter, Baylor, BayCare, Tampa General
Hospital, Orlando Regional, Sentara, Florida Hospital, Baptist, Adventist, Carolina Health System, Cabell Huntington, Southern
Regional, WellStar, Metro, Clarian, Radys, Parkland, Texas Health, Nemours Children’s Hospital and many others.
In addition, Gene also worked closely with multiple government agencies and private sector companies to advance the role of
Information Technology in healthcare.
Gene began his career in IT consulting, providing solutions for several large national companies before directing the staffing efforts
for Fidelity Information Services, a Fortune 200 company with more than 36,000 employees. As Director of Staffing for the St Joe
Company (NYSE:JOE), he utilized his IT background to implement an automated recruiting system that streamlined recruiting,
reducing costs by more than $1.7m in the first year alone.
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5. Service Lines
Consulting Services Staffing Solutions Outsourcing Legacy Systems
Consulting & Advisory services around Staff augmentation services for: Clinical Transition services to support the
Meaningful Use & Security Applications, Network Architecture, Network maintenance of legacy systems, as a new
Subject Matter experts with ‘best Security, Database & Integration system is implemented
practices’ & proven technologies High Activity recruiting delivery model On-site Support & Maintenance fulfilled
Physician Outreach Programs by either the Consulting Services personnel
Teams of recruiters assigned & dedicated or by a team of staff augmentation specialists
Oracle Gold Partner & approved to our clients specific needs
Remote Management
implementation partner for Oracle’s Go-Live Support Services
Security suite of products including Single Training for Transitional Personnel
Sign On, Database Security & Identity Placement Services for FTE’s not moving
Manager to new system support or development
teams
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6. Consulting Expertise
Areas of
I Expertise
Implementation
(Ambulatory & Inpatient),
Security & Compliance Planning, Building,
Optimization & Go-Live
Support
Independent & Owed
Integration Practice
Implementations
Training &
Conversion Support
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8. Training Expertise
Curriculum • Classroom Training
Design Training and
Go Live
Support
• Elbow to Elbow
Trainers Support
People
• Experienced Support
Help Desk EHR
Project
Our
Learning Optimum
We have a proven methodology Program Preparation
developed for go live support and Process
will work within our clients budget. Approach
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9. Epic Expertise
• Ambulatory • Clarity
– Primary Care – Full service Report Writing
– OB/GYN • Computerized Orders
– Surgery • HIM
– Other Specialties – Medical Record Management and Coding
• Anesthesia • HOD
– PAT – Most Ancillary areas
– Pre-op and PACU • Hospital Billing
– Labor and Delivery special needs • Infrastructure/Integration Architects
• ASAP (Emergency Medicine) • OpTime
– Tracker boards – PAT, Periop, physician preferences
– Triage documentation • Prelude
– Order Panels – ADT Management
– Non-physician care documentation • Professional Billing
– Observation needs • Radiant
• Beacon • Providers, Users, and Security
– Building Protocols • Willow (Pharmacy)
• Cadence (Outpatient Scheduling) – Medication build
• Clinical Documentation – Alert Management
– Inpatient units – Charge considerations
– Specialty units
– Smart Text
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– Security
10. Meaningful Use Expertise
Meaningful Use Project Management
Optimum Healthcare IT can help guide our clients organization in registering for the respective EHR incentive program(s) for which it is
eligible. We do this by providing day-to-day project management of the efforts needed to capture and report data for Meaningful Use
measures. Our project management approach ensures the use of vendor-recommended best practices for Meaningful Use in
developing the HCIS platform.
We will test the measurement capture solutions and monitor their performance through actual attestation. Optimum Healthcare IT
helps our client achieve Meaningful Use attestation by managing Meaningful Use Objective Projects, developing HCIS platforms based
on vendor-recommended best practices for Meaningful Use, testing measurement capture before the attestation period, monitoring
measurement capture during the attestation period, and closing the projects to prepare for the next stage of Meaningful Use. We
provide our client with tools and references to ensure your organization is following best practices and taking all necessary steps to
ensure attestation.
With Optimum Healthcare IT providing project management services, our client’s organization will successfully attest to Stage 1 of
Meaningful Use. We will help close the project, and work closely with our client to begin preparing for the next attestation period as
well as Stages 2 and 3.
Deliverables:
• 2 Day onsite Process Assessment and education sessions
• Gap analysis and KPI’s
• Scorecard Report and Leadership Presentation
• Action Plan and Recommendations Report and Presentation
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11. Meaningful Use Expertise cont.
• Strategy development: Optimum Healthcare IT has helped many clients develop a strategy for attaining
Meaningful Use. Whether implementing an EHR System for the first time, Converting and Migration to a new EHR
System Optimum Healthcare IT will educated and provide value to our clients organization.
• Gap analysis and KPI’s: Optimum Healthcare IT performs a gap analysis and Key Performance Indicators between
current State and Federal requirements, and works to ensure clients become qualified for funding. We provide our
clients a tested and Best in Breed Methodology to ensure successful attestation the first time.
• Clinical workflow redesign: Many of our consultants are clinicians. We know how to help our clients design more
efficient and effective clinical workflows.
• Business process redesign: Optimum Healthcare IT will assist clients to redesign work flows in business units
impacted by EHR implementation/optimization.
• EHR selection, implementation and optimization: Our consultants are certified and experienced in multiple EHR
vendor systems. We are vendor neutral and can help our client choose the best system for our clients organization’s
particular needs.
• Extending technology to community physicians: The new interconnectedness mandated by ARRA is nothing new to
Optimum Healthcare IT. We have worked with many physician groups and hospitals to guide them through this
process.
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12. Meaningful Use Expertise cont.
• E-prescribing: We help clients select a qualified e-prescribing system that is capable of meeting all the criteria
necessary for federal incentives. We also help with any necessary training.
• Interoperability: Optimum Healthcare IT will ensure that your EHR works effectively with your other critical
systems to ensure enterprise-wide connectivity.
• Vendor management: Our consultants work as liaisons between our clients organization and their vendor of choice.
• Post-live support and optimization: Optimum Healthcare IT will provide clients ongoing advisory services to
address post-implementation and optimization issues.
• We know that achieving Stage 1 of Meaningful Use is not the end of the road. With our approach of assessing
your organization, preparing it for attestation, and guiding it with our proven project management principles,
Optimum Healthcare IT will not only help our clients organization meet Stage 1, but also position it for
continued success in Stages 2 and 3.
• No matter where our clients organization stands in regard to its progress on meeting Meaningful Use,
Optimum Healthcare IT will provide valuable, strategic tools to ensure proper attestation.
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13. Patient and Families C-Suite
Will need an up-to-date e-copy of • Lead cultural change and
their health information and communicate the vision for
discharge instructions.
how EHRs will help
Will receive more efficient, better improve safety, quality and
coordinated and higher-quality the patient experience.
care. • Drive and sustain high
levels of adoption &
standard documentation.
OR & Lab
Incorporate codified
procedure, medication,
assessment and
laboratory information
Physician’s Office (Eligible
into the EHR
Provider)
Use certified EHR technology to
enable sharing of patient data
across settings of care.
Admitting
Capture correct race,
ethnicity, date of birth
and preferred language
for all admissions.
Quality & Clinical
ED & Inpatient Clinicians (Eligible Hospital) Management
Physicians and clinicians must use certified Shift from manual chart
EHR technology to enable sharing of patient reviews to analyzing data
data across settings of care. and driving performance
Licensed prescribers must enter their own review.
orders. Modify clinical practice and
content meet requirements. 13
14. Value Proposition
• Acutely experienced management team with proven track records of success.
• Tailored staffing approach with Client Dedicated Delivery Team.
• Superior resources at cost competitive rates and transparency.
• Database of thousands of consultants skilled in every clinical application.
• Remarkably quick resource turnaround.
• Shared accountability to the success of the project.
• Highest level of customer service; with one point of contact. Agile and timely
placement and removal of resources.
• Internal controls for expenses and resources as requested. 14
15. Summary
Optimum Healthcare IT is committed to the highest level of client satisfaction in:
Delivery
Execution
Consultant Management
We understand that all projects, larger or small require a clear message and an experienced consultant workforce to
execute project plans on-time and within budget.
We also understand that our clients have an extensive list of vendors from which to choose. At the same time, we
understand that patient care does not take a day off to implement a new software system. This is why every consultant
we hire into the firm or place on a project must share the same passion for Healthcare and customer satisfaction.
Our enduring commitment to improve the quality of Healthcare is the motivating factor that drives our leadership
team, consultants and support staff to work exceptionally hard for our clients.
Optimum Healthcare IT is privileged to be a part of the clinical transformation of Healthcare that will improve patient
care and reduce costs for generations to come.
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16. Thank you for your time & the
consideration
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