Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement Services

The primary focus of AHS is to provide significant value to its clients by improving healthcare delivery and business performance by assisting its clients in optimizing efficiency, cost, quality and outcomes. The AHS's healthcare consultants have a proven track record of delivering innovative healthcare, business and information solutions and assisting their clients in obtaining strong competitive advantage and significant business benefits through the use world class processes and practices and the integration of information technology.

AHS's healthcare consultants provides business, healthcare and technical expertise along with proven methodologies to identify, target and implement change to realize performance improvements. AHS also provides strategic operational planning and business process and practice design expertise to devise and implement world class business practices that provide significant business benefits in cost reductions, quality and outcome improvements and revenue recognition. As a crucial ingredient to realizing performance improvements, AHS has proven techniques for educating users to encourage usage of information and technology and integrate clinical and business processes with information technology to obtain the greatest performance improvement.

AHS's healthcare consultant's role in performance improvement is that of coach and facilitator. AHS's performance improvement services begin with organization development and education of the multi-disciplinary teams that have been charged with improving performance. AHS consultants and the client team together identify potential targeted improvements and go after implementing change to realize performance improvement. Our role as consultants is to create opportunities to think outside of the organization and be a change agent by empowering the team with the experience of our professionals that have implemented change and performance improvement in other organizations. The involvement of the client teams in our approach results in enduring performance improvements.

Our healthcare performance improvement practice is targeted in the following areas:

Clinical Performance Improvement

  • Patient Safety Management
  • Clinical Process and Information Technology Integration
  • Care and Disease Management
  • Clinical Resource Management
  • Standardization and Integration of Processes and Systems
  • Continuous Quality Improvement
  • Paperless Process Design

Patient Access Performance Improvement

  • Access to Care across the Continuum
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Standardization and Integration of Processes and Systems
  • Scheduling, Master Patient Index and Registration
  • Numbering Systems and Consistency
  • Paperless Process Design
  • Patient Flow across the Continuum
  • Privacy, Confidentiality and Security

Healthcare Financial Performance Improvement

  • Business Practices and Information Technology Integration
  • Patient Accounting Design and Benefit Realization
  • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Revenue Capture
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Compliance
  • Specialized Cost Management Programs
  • Telecommunications
  • Energy Infrastructure
  • Maintenance Contracts