Backed by a broad range of experience in the healthcare provider and payer markets, CTG manages and/or supports the initiation and implementation of health information exchanges (HIEs) across an entire environment or community. Our HIE experience includes governance; funding; constituent group awareness; technical and functional architecture establishment; clinical process reengineering; and technology selection, implementation, and optimization. CTG also has robust experience with facilitating consensus among broad groups of healthcare stakeholders that often have competing agendas and priorities. The breadth and diversity of our clinical healthcare delivery and electronic medical records experience are important advantages CTG offers established HIEs and those in the development phase.

CTG is also flexible in the level of support we provide HIEs and customizes our approach to fit the client's needs. CTG's HIE-related services include:

  • Strategic planning
  • Governance and leadership
  • Feasibility studies
  • Grant request assistance
  • Funding model development
  • Marketing and communications
  • System selection and implementation
  • Electronic medical record and practice management system integration
  • Standards, security, and privacy policies
  • Technical architecture planning and design
  • Audit of processes and clinical information access

Working with CTG helps HIEs cost-effectively achieve multiple objectives:

  • Manage the formation of a community-wide health information exchange
  • Control growth of medical costs for payers and the community
  • Reduce administrative costs for payers and the community
  • Coordinate community-wide information gathering, eligibility, benefits, out-of-pocket expenses, and requirements
  • Reduce community duplication of infrastructure
  • Increase operational efficiency
  • Improve quality of care through shared medical records
  • Establish a foundation for P4P (pay for performance) where providers are rewarded for the quality of healthcare services