Our View on eHealth Strategy

An eHealth strategy is first and foremost a key business strategy for transforming the health system and achieving better health system outcomes.

Secondly, it is a comprehensive health system information strategy, and only thirdly is it a technology strategy.

Documented health outcomes and financial payoffs typically have been low for eHealth strategies everywhere. However, lessons from Canada, the US, UK and Australia have shown that major investments in eHealth must be driven by a clearly articulated strategy for system change in order to achieve tangible health system outcomes. Our eHealth Strategy Services apply lessons learned from around the globe to help you achieve real benefits and outcomes.

Our Approach to eHealth Strategy

We understand that to be successful with developing an effective eHealth strategy we need to take a holistic view of health to provide an appropriately balanced strategy. Our eHealth Strategy Services Practice takes an iterative approach to help healthcare organizations serve their customer base more effectively. We focus on three main strategy solution areas starting with business strategy goals to drive the information strategy requirements and in turn the technology strategy solutions.

• eHealth Business Strategy

• eHealth Information Strategy

• eHealth Technology Strategy

eHealth Business Strategy

The NewEra eHealth Business Strategy service focuses on helping our customers to define the business strategy goals for their organizations as the first step in the development of an overal eHealth strategy. The result of defining a clear eHealth Business Strategy allows our customers to achieve the following benefits.

• Improving the way the health system services the overall health of the population or customer base.

• Improving the means in which healthcare is delivered.

• Identify the measurements to judge the effectiveness of the eHealth initiatives.

• Providing the blueprint to improve communication between healthcare provider groups and within provider groups to facilitate healthcare delivery and efficiency.

eHealth Information Strategy

The NewEra eHealth Information Strategy service focuses on helping our customers to create a blueprint to leverage their information assets more effectively. The result of developing a clearly defined eHealth Information Strategy for your healthcare organization includes:

• Integrating the information housed within the health system into a useable electronic form.

• Providing the strategy to effectively leverage health system data as an asset to improve the system and rationalize investment.

• Detail the means to combine data from disparate systems into a useable form through data standards, quality analysis, and rationalization.

eHealth Technology Strategy

The NewEra eHealth Technology Strategy Service focuses on delivering to our customers the Enterprise Architecture blueprint to be able to translate eHealth Business goals and eHealth Information Assets into business-critical information systems. By following this guidance our customers will be able to architect health information systems which provide bsuiness value and can easily integrate with each other to achieve business goals more effectively. The eHealth Technology Strategy Service includes:

• Enterprise / Jurisdiction Architecture blueprint

• Enterprise / Jurisdiction-based infrastructure interoperability

• Inter-provider, intra-provider technology architecture

• Cross-Enterprise / Jurisdiction technology standards strategy