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Management & Technology Consulting
Interim Management Services
Serving major US and international markets
aVM Health is a trademark jointly owned by
Arete Advisors LLC and Versatile Med Analytics
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Strategy, People, Process,
Advanced Analytics & Technology
Management Consulting in Healthcare
(862) 295-1488 Greater NY, DC, Las Vegas
(505) 400-4997 SW/SE Region
aVM is an Arete Advisors and Versatile MED Analytics Joint Venture
Healthcare is rapidly changing. We help you change with it. Deliver superior patient experience and satisfaction. And significantly reduce cost while also improve quality, compliance and reimbursement earnings.
Help your clinicians make better informed decisions. Put real-time data driven insights powered by advanced analytics and dynamic and interactive visual dashboards into their palms.
Turn your patients' long wait times into a thing of the past. Dramatically reduce your wait times and improve your patients' experience today.
Be it to put real-time data-driven insights into the palm of your clinicians to improve the efficacy of treatment or to redesign your Emergency Department workflows to optimize operational efficiencies, our team of seasoned data scientists, Master Black Belt experts and management consultants will help your project achieve remarkable results.
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WASTE DOES NOT BELONG IN HEALTCARE OR HOSPITALS
“All of us in healthcare have a moral imperative to make care better, faster and more affordable. Using the tools of the Virginia Mason Production System, we are finding that the pathway to higher quality and
lower costs is the same.”
Dr. Gary Kaplan MD,
Chairman and CEO
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Source: Dr. Gary Kaplan on “Systems Approach” to healthcare, Kaplan, Dr. G., MD., Modern Healthcare, April 15, 2017, ModernHealthcare.Com
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Learn what
some of the best healthcare systems in the country already do - removing waste from their healthcare delivery systems and optimizing efficiencies.
What We Do
Clinical Optimization
Strategically identify high-value impact opportunities, reduce waste and variance in workflows while standardizing non-required preferred treatments to dramatically boost efficiencies, , increase reimbursement earnings and physician satisfaction.
Transformational & Unit Cost Reduction
Slash operating cost base by 15 to 20% through transformational and strategic cost reduction techniques. Remove bloated expenses from clinical (Emergency Department, Surgical Rooms, etc.) and support areas such as IT, IT infrastructure, HR, Finance, Procurement.
Improve Patient Satisfaction
Identify the root-causes of your patient's dissatisfaction and low patient satisfaction scores. Significantly reduce wait times, improve bedtime manners, increase patient experience at check-in and during discharge process.
Improve Quality Outcomes
Exponentially improve your clinical quality outcomes. Leverage advance data analytics, Lean, Lean Six Sigma and other tested methods to increase patient safety, reduce medical errors, and reduce readmissions and adverse effect rates while also improving your compliance with CMS standards.
Our Capabilities
Advanced Analytics
Change Management
Cloud Deployment & Security Services
Next-Generation Technology and Solution as a Service (SAAS)
Organization Design & Development
Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance (GRC)
Implementation
(Analysis, Design, Prototype, Build, Test, Deploy)
Human Capital
Clinical Decision Support
Process Re/engineering/
Process Re/design
Cybersecurity
Lean Six Sigma Training, Deployment, Project Execution
Project Management & Program Management
Strategy Planning & Development
Data Visualization
Current State Analysis, Future State Design & Gap Assessment
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Process
Optimization
Quality Outcomes & Compliance with CMS/HEDIS Standards
Dramatically reduce readmissions, hospital-acquired infections, adverse effects, and average length of stays (ALOS).
Ex: Improved HEDIS quality compliance by more than 40%, netting more than 30% in improved reimbursement earnings.
IT Modernization &
Operational Excellence
Slashed IT operating cost base by 20 to 50%
Slashed IT operating cost base by 20 to 50%
$1M + increased surgical revenue through rapid development and Kaizen event approach. 40% of surgical instrument cleaning waste identified and removed.
Operational
Excellence
$1M + increased in monthly surgical revenues through rapid development and Kaizen approach.
Improved Quality and Reduced Length of Stay
45% reduced average length of stay at a 3-hospital network with 2100 beds
Transformational Cost Reduction
$145M Cost Savings
3-year stepwise cost savings delivered to large health systems's Medicare line of business
Revenue Cycle & Reimbursement
$20M reimbursement earnings recovered in 3 weeks of Rapid Improvement Cycle project
Organization
Change Management
Instituted a culture of continuous improvement. Empowered 1,000's of employees with Lean Six Sigma training and tools. Generated 100's of high value process improvement opportunities.
Data Analytics
$20M+ penalties avoided by constructing metrics and analytics program that significantly improved regulatory reporting process and compliance.
75% improved patient satisfaction scores within 3 months of project start date.
Patient Satisfaction
Operational Excellence
Improved lab test results turnaround time by 98% - from lab to physicians' desk.
Process
Optimization
Next-Gen IT Infrastructure
Solutions
Dramatically improve virtual bandwidth (by up to 10X) at a fraction of the cost to physically upgrade tens of distributed and remote hospital/medical locations.
Our Clients
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Testimonials
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Testimonials
I have nothing but the highest regard for Alan and his approach and have recently agreed to engage with him again around service excellence."
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Large Health System
Arete's Quality and Sophistication Rivals Bain (Consulting) and McKinsey. I would recommend them in a heartbeat."
Director, $1B Company
Versatile's (data analysts) are extremely versatile. They deeply understand data."
Executive Medical Director, Large Health System
Wowed and delivered on all projects."
Chief Operating Officer, Large Medical Center
Our People
Decades of
COMBINED HEALTHCARE AND MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Our People's multi-disciplinary expertise complement your business knowledge and company's expertise to deliver remarkable value,
project results and business outcomes.
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Meet Representatives
of Our Team
G. Foster
Senior Advisor
Master Black Belt
S. Goradia
Principal
Healthinformaticist
M. Kusterle
Advisor
Healthcare Analytics
Dr. A. Cooper., Ph.D.
Senior Principal
Hospital Operations Executive
A. Brunhke
Principal
Advanced Analytics
Dr. T. Pascuzzi.,
MD
Senior Principal
Medical and Physician
D. Rhoades
Advisor
Project Management, PMP
M. Snodgrass
Senior Principal
High Performance Compute &
Next Generation Technologist
J. Marcone (CNMT, RNT)
Advisor
HEDIS Quality and Master Black Belt
L. Snodgrass
Senior Principal
Management Consultant
B. Green
Senior Advisor
Master Black Belt
R. Largey
Associate Principal
Management Consultant
Our Use Cases
The combination of Business Process Re/engineering, Lean Six Sigma, Next-Generation Technologies and Advanced Analytics can unlock 100's of pockets of inefficiencies, waste, avoidable errors and poor utilization of equipment and systems. The ability to exponentially boost performance using these tested methods have been empirically proven.
Don't be left behind using outdated approaches or uncoordinated execution.
Learn how we systematically identify and solve root-causes that prevent high levels of clinical performance and unlock barriers to optimizing operational efficiencies (in-patient and ambulatory, ED and trauma), utilization management, care management, care coordination, human resource productivity, IT systems' capacity, and medical equipment utilization.
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