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Population Health Management

A population health software selection for an ACO achieved four straight years of savings and supports rapid growth.

Enterprise Access Program

Established an Enterprise Access Program that improved patient experience and reduced unnecessary work for the care team.

Application Rationalization

Rationalized a community health system’s enterprise application portfolio yields savings and reduces risk.

Practice Acquisition Playbook

Developed a repeatable IT Playbook streamlines health system integration of new practice acquisitions.

Enterprise Analytics Program

Established enterprise analytics program with cloud-based data warehouse, data governance, and a standardized dashboard and reporting environment.

Epic Implementation Program Management

Program management lead and multiple project leaders who supported Epic’s largest single big-bang go-live.

Regulatory Expertise

Guided client through mock regulatory audit to ensure compliance with Cures Act.

ERP Expertise

Program management of Infor’s largest enterprise cloud-based ERP implementation.

Revenue Cycle Expertise

CDI management and physician coding and documentation audits across a health system.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence selection improving oncology care and outcomes with early indications of a 6-to-12-month break-even.

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what we do

    Interests

    We have expertise at the core of where information technology and healthcare connect. We partner with our clients to plan, govern, select, implement, and optimize information technologies across the healthcare continuum, including process improvement in the clinical and revenue cycle functions in acute, ambulatory, and post-acute settings through technology.

    Patient Care
    ACOs & CINs
    Revenue Cycle
    Business Intelligence & Analytics
    Patient Engagement
    Enterprise Integration
    Population Health Management
    Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

    solutions expertise

    We have extensive experience with…

    Enterprise Solutions such as Epic, Oracle Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Oracle, Infor and Workday

    Specialty Solutions such as Intersystems, Optum, Arcadia, Wellcentive, Harmony, 3M and many more…

    our clients

    Our clients include health systems and academic medical centers, community and children’s hospitals, clinics/physician practices, value-based care organizations, retirement communities, specialty treatment centers, home care providers, and vendors. We have long-standing relationships with our clients. We have worked with over 200 clients and completed thousands of projects over 20+ years.

    our firm

    Since our founding in 2002, our team of passionate, dedicated, and knowledgeable professionals strive to ensure that we exceed every client’s expectation.

    Tom Schnetzer - Founding Partner

    Tom co-founded Himformatics because he believes every client deserves the expertise and dedication needed to use their health IT investments to improve performance, quality and outcomes. Through word of mouth, value and results, the firm has grown substantially over the past decade. With more than 30 years in healthcare and information systems, Tom has developed trusted partnerships with clients who count on him for his strategic insights, honest assessments and ability to get the tough work done well.

    Chris Bogiages - Founding Partner Emeritus

    Chris is a founding partner of Himformatics. For more than 30 years, he has been serving his clients with strategic insights and creative approaches in growing innovative and customer service focused IT organizations. Clients have come to rely on his instincts, uncommon sense and personalized leadership, as well as his ability to involve the right people and answer the right questions. Chris has developed strategic IT plans and tactical assessments for a wide range of healthcare organizations, served as an interim CIO at a large tertiary medical center, supported organizational redesigns, directed large-scale system implementations and worked closely with the leading healthcare IT vendors.

    Jim Gaddis - Partner

    Jim helps clients provide better care with a better ROI. As an accomplished IT professional and licensed paramedic, Jim brings 30 years of technology management and practical frontline experience to healthcare. Clients turn to him for everything from IT strategy and financial modeling to physician integration and digital engagement to system and vendor selections, and implementations. Many use the innovative ROI calculators he created to make healthcare IT investment decisions and appreciate his wit and diligence in helping them drive performance with compassion.

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    Gail Hinte - Partner

    A seasoned leader, Gail brings the right level of IT healthcare resources to every engagement. Clients count on her to conduct strategic planning, process redesign, system selection and implementation programs to meet business goals. Her impartial advice, deep expertise and humor have earned her the respect of hospital executives and staff alike. Having served as an interim CIO, delivered ICD-10 and Meaningful Use programs and implemented Epic Systems and governance structures, she understands what it takes to succeed.

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    Dave Kincaid - Partner

    Dave is an accomplished leader who works with health delivery organizations to understand the costs, benefits and strategic implications of their IT investments. For more than two decades, he has built significant expertise working with academic medical centers, community hospitals and ambulatory care centers on process redesign, cost/benefit identification and calculation, feasibility studies and system development. He is known for his honesty, humor and creativity, whether he is helping clients with system selection, troubleshooting, building consensus or strategic planning.

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    Briggs Pille - Partner

    An accomplished healthcare IT consulting executive, Briggs helps healthcare clients tackle today’s new challenges including optimizations, interoperability, data governance, analytics, and digital engagement. Over his 25 years in IT, he has moved from technical resource to implementation manager, strategist, organizational leader and trusted advisor. Whether a health system, academic medical center, community hospital or physician organization, clients rely on his expertise and willingness to collaborate and deliver practical, effective solutions.

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    Ray Bell - Founding Partner Emeritus

    A founder of Himformatics, Ray Bell is a seasoned healthcare business and technology partner who understands firsthand how to use IT to drive better outcomes.

    Pete Mounts - Partner in Memoriam

    With more than three decades in healthcare IT, Pete earned the trust of both hospitals and vendors. He had significant experience in executive roles for vendors and helped organizations derive value from their IT investments.

    our associates

    Our accomplished healthcare consulting and IT leaders work with our clients to address their pressing strategic needs, including system selection, organization design, governance, cost-benefit modeling, interoperability, data governance, analytics, digital transformation, clinical optimization and process redesign, revenue cycle, and IT regulatory strategy. Clients leverage our Associates’ knowledge, expertise, and creative mindsets to deliver timely and valuable solutions.

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