The Copperwood Group works with senior healthcare executives, CIO's and healthcare technology leaders to identify and enhance operational changes necessary to improve their IT delivery model.

Changes within the Healthcare Provider space concerning the delivery of care and reimbursement will require an improved and more efficient IT services delivery model. Organizations are implementing ACO's, Sustainable Health Communities, and Meaningful Use programs to provide solutions for many of the following challenges:

• Massive industry and regulatory changes at an increasing pace
• Heightened financial pressures to curb costs wherever possible
• Reimbursement based on clinical performance and outcomes
• Lack of accurate and timely patient and provider information
• Managing chronic illnesses and costs

All of these challenges will require timely, high-value operational IT solutions to support and achieve successful outcomes. The IT fundamentals haven't changed - rather they are more important now than ever. Any underperforming IT operational process today will only become a larger issue with increased visibility tomorrow. To respond to these new challenges, a highly efficient and transparent IT delivery model will need to be implemented. One that will bring tools, methods, and skills to:

• Bridge communications between CIO's and other members of the executive team
• Formulate IT strategic alignment at the enterprise level
• Implement effective IT governance
• Increase levels of IT performance
• Increase the return on IT investment