Healthcare
AM improves the financial performance and sustainability of healthcare organizations by evaluating the current landscape, determining areas for improvement, and developing and implementing new strategies.
Health Systems Transformation
Operational Optimization
AM helps healthcare organizations achieve operational excellence and deliver improved patient outcomes through a holistic approach that integrates high reliability practices into workflows, communication, data analytics and technology adoption.
Strategic Planning
AM partners with healthcare organizations to craft strategic plans, setting the stage for goal attainment. Considering factors like competition, patient needs, evolving technology, and market dynamics, AM ensures an effective roadmap for success.
Program Evaluation and Measurement
AM experts tailor evaluation methods and tools to assess program success, guide resource allocation, and demonstrate accountability.
High-Impact Healthcare Consulting
Healthcare experts at AM leverage a technology-agnostic approach to help healthcare partners operate at the forefront of healthcare delivery, improve clinical quality metrics, mitigate risks and optimize operational efficiency.
AM empowers healthcare organizations to achieve high-reliability status by identifying improvement areas, implementing innovative change strategies, and measuring progress. With a proven track record, AM helps organizations embrace new technologies to transform patient care and operational efficiency.
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Health Systems Transformation: Solutions That Drive Healthcare Optimization
Our solutions effectively inform key stakeholders to enable better decisions and optimize performance.
Healthcare Transformation Consulting Expertise
AM serves the public health, healthcare system administration, and healthcare delivery missions of Federal agencies by providing high performing project management, business transformation, performance improvement, data analysis, operations, and information technology services to clients.
Health Technology & Data Modernization
AM stands out as a premier expert in the field of healthcare technology, distinguished by its unparalleled track record in guiding various organizations to achieve the highly distinguished rank of high-reliability organizations (HROs). This significant achievement is chiefly due to its exceptionally proficient use of cutting-edge and emerging technologies.
Data, Analytics and Visualization
Data-driven decision making, enabled by dashboards that provide optimal data visualization and analysis, has been shown to improve patient care, operations, and financial performance for healthcare organizations. AM’s expertise in data collection and dashboard development empowers healthcare partners to better visualize key metrics, analyze data tailored to their needs and goals, monitor KPIs, and improve stakeholder communication and collaboration.
Healthcare Automation
Healthcare organizations face challenges like financial constraints, manual processes, limited data access, and increasing demands. AM addresses these by employing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) to automate mundane tasks, enhance data accuracy, and unlock deeper insights. This integration not only promotes standardization and cost reduction but also empowers organizations to make informed decisions and improve overall performance.
Modernized Delivery Techniques
Our experts utilize the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) alongside DevSecOps to expedite product delivery and enhance security for healthcare organizations. By implementing SAFe methodologies like Program Portfolio Management and Continuous Deployment, coupled with integrating security practices into the DevOps pipeline, AM boosts product quality, employee and patient satisfaction, and reduces breach risks.
Workforce Optimization
Retaining and motivating employees is essential for organizational success, high-quality healthcare delivery and better patient outcomes. AM helps healthcare groups create a high-performance culture, manage risk and compliance, and build a sustainable workforce by developing and implementing tailored strategies.
Healthcare Delivery
AM collaborates with healthcare organizations to identify strategic goals and key optimization areas. We help partners stay at the forefront of healthcare by developing and implementing strategies for innovative care models and value-based planning. This approach ensures they are well-equipped to meet current and future challenges effectively.
Culture Transformation
We partner with healthcare organizations to identify their desired culture, assess their current culture, and develop a roadmap to achieve their cultural goals. We then design custom Ways of Working (WoW) solutions to help our clients improve their organizational culture, communication, and collaboration, while prioritizing patient safety.
Workforce Capability Development
AM’s HR experts enhance workforce performance by assessing employee satisfaction to inform strategies for change management and culture transformation, boosting engagement, productivity, and retention. Supporting Healthcare Learning Organizations like VHA, AM offers learning opportunities, including webinars and "lunch and learns," to keep employees informed and engaged.
Change Management
AM develops effective Organizational Change Management (OCM) plans by applying Prosci and ADKAR methodologies. We first perform a landscape analysis to assess current processes, systems, employee skillsets, and overall change readiness. This information allows us to identify potential barriers, areas of change resistance, and areas that will be most impacted by the planned change. We then develop unique action plans to successfully implement change, collect metrics, and monitor outcomes.
Health Systems Transformation
AM strives to enhance the performance and outcomes of healthcare organizations by effectively and efficiently identifying areas for improvement. With a focus on developing and implementing innovative, cutting-edge strategies for transformative change, while also measuring progress as these solutions are deployed and integrated.
High-Impact Healthcare Consulting
AM’s interdisciplinary teams use their technical and healthcare expertise to boost healthcare organization performance. They focus on enhancing patient satisfaction, reducing readmission rates, and increasing operational efficiency. AM’s technology-agnostic approach ensures partners receive the best tools to stay leaders in healthcare delivery, ready for future changes.
Health Program Evaluation
Experts at AM determine the optimal evaluation methods and tools for data collection and analysis based on the specific needs and goals of the health program. Evaluation reports yield information which enables healthcare organizations to determine implementation success and areas for improvement, more effectively manage resource allocation, and demonstrate accountability for stakeholders.
Strategic Planning
AM collaborates with healthcare organizations to develop a strategic plan which lays the foundation for achieving organizational goals. In development of the strategic plan, AM considers a variety of factors- such as the competitive landscape, customer/patient expectations, continuously advancing technology and the market landscape- and how these factors interact to best enable success.
Operational Optimization
In the fast-evolving healthcare industry, where patient expectations for prompt and efficient care are rising, maintaining high-quality care is crucial. Our multi-faceted approach enhances operational efficiency and effectiveness for healthcare organizations, enabling better patient outcomes and experiences. Leveraging expertise in organizational planning, project management, change management, communications, and data analysis, we apply best practices in high reliability. By streamlining workflow processes, enhancing communication, optimizing data visualization, and integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence, we help healthcare organizations meet the dual challenge of efficiency and quality care.
Healthcare Clients:
Healthcare Digital Transformation Success Story (Veteran Affairs)
AM was engaged by Veterans Affairs to deliver healthcare system-wide analysis to drive the design of cost-effective value-based care driven overhaul of the VA’s Healthcare Delivery Systems. The analysis was mandated as a result of Congress passing the MISSION Act. AM coupled our experienced healthcare experts with our data engineers to analyze provider data at 1,243 health care facilities, including 170 VA Medical Centers and 1,063 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving more than 9 million enrolled Veterans each year. AM collected 124 data sources from across all aspects of VA healthcare operations, finances, human resources, real estate, etc. to assess compliance, vulnerability protection, monitoring, and scaling against the ever-changing demands. The most important benefits to this program were the ability to utilize the vast array of tools to analyze, transform, visualize, and catalog the data to gain the insights needed to make decisions about where to optimize the VA healthcare system.
VA Benefits
- Streamlined processes through automation
- Enhanced data precision and time efficiency within budget
- Derived insightful intelligence from data
- Unleashed the workforce to tackle challenges