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DIVURGENT Sponsors Winter Wonderland, A Children's Medical Center Event
Plano, TX., December 14, 2011- DIVURGENT, a Dallas based national healthcare consulting firm, will be sponsoring the first Children's Medical Center Winter Wonderland event on Wednesday, December 14th. "Staying in a hospital during the holiday season can be difficult for both the children and families. We thought if the children are unable to enjoy the holidays at home, we'd bring the spirit of the season to them," says Philip Felt, managing Partner with DIVURGENT.More
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DIVURGENT to Release Results of Hospital Industry's First Survey on Business Intelligence Maturity
Virginia Beach, Va., February 21, 2011: DIVURGENT, a national healthcare consulting firm with offices in Dallas, Texas and Virginia Beach, Virginia, has conducted an industry survey on business intelligence and analytical maturity within the hospital provider marketplace. The results of this industry-first survey will be released at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2011 Annual Conference, to be held in Orlando, Florida, February 20th through 24th. It is expected that over 25,000 attendees will be present at this year's conference. Results will be released and incorporated into a presentation to be delivered by DIVURGENT's Managing Partner Colin Konschak and Clinical Transformation Practice Director Mary Sirois. This presentation is titled, "Using Data to Transform Care and Build Competitive Advantage" and will be presented on Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 11:15am EST. This is HIMSS Presentation #229. More
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DIVURGENT Announces ACTIVATE! Activation Management Services
Virginia Beach, Va., February 9, 2011: DIVURGENT, a national healthcare consulting firm with offices in Dallas, Texas and Virginia Beach, Virginia, announced the company's latest addition, ACTIVATE!, a comprehensive activation management service offering. ACTIVATE! Services help healthcare provider organizations manage and coordinate entire activation projects - from pre-activation planning, to activation training, management, and support staffing, to post-activation metrics and reporting efforts - utilizing highly skilled resources and best practice-based tools and methodologies.
Read more: DIVURGENT Announces ACTIVATE! Activation Management Services
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Health Administration Press Publishes New Book Titled, "Consumer Centric Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges for Providers"
Authors are Leading Healthcare Consultants, Lindsey Jarrell and Colin Konschak
Virginia Beach, VA, November 10, 2010: Patients are not passive recipients of care. They are active customers. Successful healthcare providers understand that the customer is king. Consumer-Centric Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges for Providers is a powerful book that provides a blueprint for how healthcare providers can take control of their consumer strategy. Jarrell and Konshak’s analysis and compelling questions entice readers to explore multiple facets of healthcare consumerism. The authors are award winning healthcare consultants Lindsey Jarrell and Colin Konschak. They focus on growth opportunities associated with the increasing rise of consumerism and provide the resources providers need to start implementing change.
Bert Reese, Chief Information Officer of Sentara Health says, “In Consumer-Centric Healthcare, authors Colin Konschak and Lindsey Jarrell establish themselves as industry thought leaders for the coming decade. Health care institutions and groups from across the nation and around the world will want to pay close attention to the keen insights in this book.”
The book is filled with innovative strategies, examples from leading organizations, tips and insights, web links, and suggestions for further reading.
The authors provide deep insight into the role of the patient, where transparency stands today, personal health records, consumer directed health plans, global and regional medical tourism, convenience care and telemedicine.
David Bradshaw, Chief Planning and Marketing Officer for Memorial Hermann, Houston, TX says, "The authors provide a provocative look at the new rules of healthcare consumerism. It touches on technology, medical tourism and retail medicine, among others. By providing relevant examples and asking insightful questions it challenges healthcare leaders of today to plan for tomorrow."
To buy the book, click here |
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DIVURGENT has added a fourth practice, Clinical Transformation. More |
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Medsphere Applauds Final Meaningful Use Criteria as ‘Accelerator’ for National Health IT Initiative to Improve Healthcare, July 13, 2010:
Experts available to discuss new standards and affordable means for hospitals to achieve meaningful use.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, June 10, 2010: DIVURGENT, a national healthcare consulting firm with offices in Dallas, Texas and Virginia Beach, Virginia, is pleased to announce that Mary Staley-Sirois has joined their team as a Principal with responsibility for leading their clinical transformation practice. Mrs. Staley-Sirois brings nearly 20 years of healthcare operational and strategic planning experience across a wide spectrum of provider environments. She has worked with large and small healthcare systems on the necessary planning for clinical transformation, quality improvement and patient safety based on best practice and evidence-based processes. “The addition of a strategically oriented veteran like Mary shows DIVURGENT’s commitment to assemble a leadership team that understands the future of healthcare,” said DIVURGENT Managing Partner Philip Felt.
As a physical therapist by clinical background, Mrs. Staley-Sirois partnered with DIVURGENT over the past year while serving in her role as president of Resurgence Consulting on projects focused on clinical transformation, meaningful use readiness aligned with electronic health record best practices, and medical home model strategies. For three years prior, Mrs. Staley-Sirois worked at Baylor Health Care System as the Vice President of Clinical Transformation, responsible for leading their clinical transformation efforts across 12 hospitals and 450 physician practices. Preceding her position at Baylor Health Care System, she served as Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of HIPAA and Compliance services at HealthLink. Mrs. Staley-Sirois is well-versed on HIPAA compliance and is an accomplished public speaker on the subjects of clinical transformation, healthcare operations, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance. “I am thrilled to be a part of DIVURGENT and look forward to expanding our clinical transformation team who can advise and assist our clients in improving care and realizing the benefits of electronic health record adoption,” said Mrs. Staley-Sirois.
DIVURGENT’s clinical transformation practice will partner with clients to implement the processes and tools that will allow for the collection, measurement, and application of data toward improving the safety, timeliness, efficiency, and patient-centeredness of care. As the Principal responsible for the clinical transformation practice, Mrs. Staley-Sirois will focus on the alignment and hardwiring of clinical and business benefits opportunities with improving quality of care in healthcare. “Mary’s versatility, leadership and experience with clinical transformation will add tremendous value to the services of DIVURGENT and will solidify our position as the leader in clinical transformation services,” said DIVURGENT Managing Partner Colin Konschak. |
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Virginia Beach, VA, April 15, 2010: DIVURGENT, a national healthcare consulting firm with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, is pleased to announce that it has joined the Foundation of The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). CHIME Foundation member firms are provided the opportunity to work with member healthcare chief information officers (CIOs) and other senior health information technology (IT) leaders in shaping the future of the industry.
“We are extremely honored to be afforded membership to such a prestigious organization,” said Colin B. Konschak, managing partner at DIVURGENT. “In today’s rapidly changing healthcare IT marketplace, the ability to reach today’s leading healthcare CIOs is critical to the growth of our organization and the development of our services. We look forward to the opportunity to work together with today’s leading healthcare CIOs and to having meaningful discussions about the future of healthcare and its supporting technologies and services.”
DIVURGENT's strong allegiance to thought leadership in the industry has differentiated their core practices from competitors. "We believe our announced CHIME membership will allow us to continue to be thought leaders for our clients, our company, and the industry. With access to the foremost CIO leaders in the industry, we will collaborate in new ways to provide the highest quality knowledge to our clients," said Philip Felt, managing partner of DIVURGENT.
CHIME is a non-profit organization that exclusively represents the interests of the healthcare CIO and other senior health IT leaders, serves their professional development needs, and promotes the more effective use of information management in healthcare.
The CHIME Foundation, established in 1994, allows providers of healthcare information technology services the opportunity to support the educational initiatives of the CHIME organization. As a member of the CHIME Foundation, DIVURGENT will support CHIME’s mission by participating in the sharing of industry best practices, delivering educational programs, and advocating for the use of information technology in healthcare. |
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Virginia Beach, VA, March 1, 2010: HIStalk, a healthcare
IT news and opinion website, interviewed DIVURGENT partners
Colin Konschak, MBA, FHMISS; Philip Felt, PMP, MBA, CPHIMSS;
and Lindsey Jarrell, FACHE, highlighting the company's focus
on culture and client satisfaction. The partners discussed project
management methodology, major systems implementations, funding,
and their personal feelings on running a company. "We believe
that we have a common goal of making patient's lives in our
communities and in the communities that we serve better," Felt
said.
When asked what he would tell customers to persuade them to
choose a small company like DIVURGENT instead of a big consulting
firm, Konschak said, "When you're small, entrepreneurial, and
nimble you can focus entirely on client satisfaction." Jarrell
commented that "great change management takes a dedicated team."
DIVURGENT stressed their effort in recruiting to maintain a
strong staff. They told HIStalk their infrastructure allows
team members to work collaboratively.
http://histechreport.com/2010/02/21/divurgent-on-time-on-scope-and-on-budget-with-project-focus-and-attention-to-the-unique-needs-of-each-client/ |
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Virginia Beach, VA, January 26, 2010: DIVURGENT, a
national healthcare consulting firm with offices in Dallas,
TX and Virginia Beach, VA is pleased to announce that Lindsey
Jarrell has been named as a Partner in the firm.
Mr. Jarrell brings over 15 years of leadership, innovation and
management expertise to the DIVURGENT team. Jarrell was most
recently the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
of BayCare Health System in Clearwater, Florida. Prior to joining
BayCare, he served as Executive Vice President with Healthlink
through its acquisition by IBM.
"Lindsey’s work with large integrated delivery networks throughout
the United States has given him broad knowledge of and perspective
on the challenges facing healthcare today," said Colin Konschak,
Managing Partner. “His experience will allow our firm to accelerate
our rapid growth. Lindsey will be able to advise healthcare
leaders on the ramifications of the ARRA and HITECH Acts and
help devise strategies to maximize incentives under these programs.”
"I'm truly excited to join the leadership team of DIVURGENT
in this next chapter of what already is an impressive era. DIVURGENT’s
focus on both the customer and innovation is a direct result
of the great leadership team that is already here,” Jarrell
said.
“The industry is undergoing impressive growth that will continue
for several years. Business and clinical intelligence is a good
example of where we will see a continued upswing. We are finally
approaching a tipping point where meaningful business intelligence
is going to become so critical to hospital operations that administrators
will start demanding better platforms. The key opportunity for
consulting firms is in devising the creation of a solid data
governance framework and facilitation of a data model,” Jarrell
said.
Jarrell was most recently awarded the 2009 CHIME-AHA Transformational
Leadership Award while at BayCare and serves as a Fellow of
the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). |
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Virginia Beach, VA, October 3, 2009: DIVURGENT Managing
Partner, Colin Konschak will be presenting at two upcoming industry
conferences. In March of 2010, Mr. Konschak will be co-presenting
with Lindsey Jarrell who is currently the CIO of BayCare Health
System in Tampa Florida at the American College of Healthcare
Executives (ACHE) Annual Congress in Chicago, IL. The topic
of their presentation is consumerism in healthcare. Also in
March of 2010, Mr. Konschak will be co-presenting with Elise
Spoto at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. Ms. Spoto is the Director
of Information Technologies, Physician Practice Solutions at
Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, VA. They will be talking about
the role of technology in a physician integration strategy.
Both Mr. Jarrell and Ms. Spoto are on DIVURGENT’s Advisory Board. |
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Virginia Beach, VA, August 29, 2008: Shane Danaher
has been named Vice President, Client Services, for DIVURGENT.
In his role, he will be responsible for developing strategic
service offerings, driving client satisfaction, and developing
sound marketing strategies. Shane brings over five years of
experience to the healthcare technology field and has a proven
history of establishing successful relationships with providers
and organizations. These relationships have enabled over 35
clients to meet their goals and advance their healthcare offerings
through successful implementation of IT projects and programs.
Shane has an Economics degree from Haverford College and is
currently pursuing an MBA. |
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Suffolk, VA, August 13, 2008: DIVURGENT, in conjunction
with Virginia HIMSS and ACHE is hosting a joint program focused
on the topic of emergency preparedness for healthcare organizations.
The program will be held on August 13th, 2008 from 5:30pm -
8:00pm at the Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center (VMASC),
located at 1030 University Blvd in Suffolk, Virginia. Attendees
can register at www.vahimss.org
or directly at www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=638911
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"In the best of circumstances, healthcare organizations operate
in a complex environment. This can be exacerbated when a community
faces a local disaster, either man-made or natural, that thrusts
the healthcare system to the forefront of response and makes
it the focus of recovery efforts.", says Colin Konschak, Partner
with DIVURGENT and Past President of Virginia HIMSS. "It is
critical that the local healthcare community be actively engaged
in the development of comprehensive emergency preparedness plans
to ensure that local organizations communicate and coordinate
their mutual support in service to the community", says Ashley
Clary, Vice President of ACHE's HCAT Chapter. |
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Dallas, TX, April 2008: DIVURGENT announced the hiring
of Daniel R. Frietze as a Partner within the company to develop
and lead the Revenue Cycle Management service line and assist
with other business development activities. Mr. Frietze provides
over 22 years of healthcare consulting and corporate level experience
with knowledge of new industry products, services, and trends
within the following areas:
Daniel was previously with Eclipsys, Corp. where he developed
a Quality Methodology program for their Professional Services
Division while assuming Regional Vice President responsibilities
for the Southwest Region. Prior to employment with Eclipsys,
Daniel was an employee of IBM - Healthlink for over nine years.
Daniel was involved with and contributed to the growth of Healthlink,
Inc. from a small independent consulting firm in 1995 to the
point of acquisition by IBM at which time Healthlink, Inc. employed
over seven hundred and fifty employees and over $100m in gross
revenue. Daniel served in various capacities while at Healthlink,
Inc and was instrumental in developing Supply Chain, ERP and
Revenue Cycle service lines which produced over ten million
dollars in annual gross revenue.
In addition to his work with Healthlink, Inc., Daniel has worked
in client engagement level positions with Perot Systems and
Broadlane Inc. both of Dallas, TX. While with these organizations,
Daniel maintained client engagement and/or services delivery
responsibilities with organizations such as Tenet Healthcare,
Cleveland Clinic, Community Health Systems and Universal Health
Systems. |
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Dallas, TX, February 1, 2008: DIVURGENT has partnered
with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC)
to offer modeling and simulation services to healthcare providers
in the United States. "This partnership strengthens our capabilities
to improve operational throughput, patient safety, clinical
quality and even help design hospitals that are more patient
friendly", says DIVURGENT's Managing Partner Colin Konschak.
The partnership will create computer simulations and conduct
programs analysis to meet client's needs by leveraging $3M in
software and hardware dedicated to M&S. The team will work closely
with clients to plan and execute complex M&S tasks associated
with new construction, departmental redesign, throughput, etc.
Computer simulations provide the capability to: quickly and
economically test theories and ideas , help visualize and understand
complex situations before decisions are made, prioritize labor
and capital investment opportunities and reduce the risk inherent
in business decisions. |
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