Prescription for Successful
Health Care Change
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ACUMEN has been working with the Health
Insurance and Hospital Industry since 1989

 

...Welcome to ACUMEN

 
        ACUMEN is a full service business consulting and software development company. We built a reputation on understanding clients' needs and providing (he right-solutions-and- direction to benefit each client's business and profitability.

The reasons for our successful results and our clients' satisfaction is ACUMEN'S:
        Knowledgeable and experienced people
        Strong industry and application knowledge
        Ability to earn support ("buy-in") of internal employees,
            to achieve long-term client goals
        Record of results, on time and in budget

ACUMEN'S skill sets are:
        Analytical
        Managerial
        Financial
        Technical

Some of ACUMEN'S credentials for Health Care Insurance and Hospital industries:
        Saved $ 1.1 million annually by reducing claims backlog from 35 days to 1 day
        Saved $ 1 million annually by downsizing an operation
        Reduced internal implementation time for custom coverage from 4 months to 1
            month
        Designed and implemented Financial, HR, EIS and Administrative software
            applications

To Position Your Company for
Successful Change...

Prescription for Successful Health Care Change

What are the Main Issues Forcing Change in the Health Care Industry?

        • National Health Insurance?
        • Formation of Health Alliances?
        • Falling Prices?
        • Lower Sales?
        • Managed Care Programs?
        • Competitive Health Services & Programs?

What is your company doing about these changes?

The Prescription for Success requires a company to:

        • Re-evaluate its business strategy and embrace new opportunities;
        • Re-evaluate and change its internal procedures;
        • Re-evaluate and change the systems that support the business changes.

        To change and reposition your company takes extensive planning, strategizing, formulating, designing, negotiating and implementation.

        Do you have enough people with the right skills and acumen to provide the
necessary leadership, guidance and additional work effort to deliver this change?

        ACUMEN, a company specializing in the health insurance and hospital industry,
is focused on delivery and achievement of results.

        ACUMEN understands the concept, the urgency and the specifics of what exists
and what must bedone.

        ACUMEN can be a highly effective partner in the design and implementation of successful change through the various services it offers.

1     Business Consulting
           Covering the full spectrum of the operations and procedures necessary to formulate and deliver solutions for change including underwriting, marketing and sales, operations accounting, membership and billing, administration, executive information, systems and internal procedures.

2     Computer System Consulting
          Analyze, modify or replace systems to support the business change - including project management, system design and development, systems analysis, specification definition, implementation, documentation, and training for new and modified systems.

          Develop corporate controls, decision support and executive management systems to assist in analyzing and managing the business.

          Implement packaged or custom-developed software.

3     Software Products and Customized Solutions
• Executive Information System (EIS)
          A personal-computer-based system that offers a customized solution to provide executives with critical-corporate-control-information, needed to monitor each area of responsibility, and to mate timely, strategic and operational decisions.

• Committee Productivity Analysis System (CPAS)
          A personal computer system to monitor staff committee involvement and their productivity. The system analyzes the costs and the effectiveness of committees against your company's goals and objectives and documents the relative return on investment achieved by the committees.

4     Marketing and Sales Consulting
          Develop strategic marketing and sales plans, programs and procedures to promote and support the business change both internally and externally.

5     Hospital Consulting
          Complete hospital evaluation and profitability enhancement, based on a review of the hospital's operations and services. The evaluation and solutions involve all hospital operations including admitting, emergency room, operating room, radiology, nursing, pharmacy, laboratory, home health and hospice, day services, dietary, medical records and transcription, finance, transportation and maintenance services and schedule utilization.