TEAM’s Capabilities in Meeting the Nation’s Healthcare IT Needs

TEAM International provides a brief overview of its healthcare IT staffing capabilities and partnership philosophy that allow its clients to successfully and cost effectively reach their aggressive EMR/EHR implementation goals.

On December 6, 2008, U.S. President Obama announced the three main pillars of his economic recovery plan. Electronic health records deployment was named among these three pillars. Our policy makers clearly realize the importance of healthcare IT for patient safety. However, according to the research commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), transferring patient information and other medical records across broad healthcare networks lags behind the IT adoption in other sectors of U.S. economy. Specialists claim that to be able to design practical and sensible solutions, healthcare providers should first and foremost identify areas in which most of the medical errors are made. In-house medical administrative staff is not enough to reduce and eliminate current medical errors and create a solid platform for effective implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR). An eye from outside is needed to respond to Obama’s call to integrate robust IT solutions with healthcare practices.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provide stimulus grants to speed up the EMR/EHR implementation process in healthcare networks. In order to qualify to this money, a healthcare provider must show “a meaningful use” of qualified IT systems. Although the Act does not clearly define the term “a meaningful use”, practitioners interpret it as a provider’s ability to keep its EMR/HER system up and running. These and other innovative policies suggest that healthcare providers should hire IT consultants, developers and other specialists to have all of the required IT systems put in place.

TEAM International has gained significant experience with healthcare IT staffing and has helped several healthcare providers with their Clinical Information Systems staffing needs by providing them with the best IT talent all over United States. Our professional candidates understand HIPAA compliance and provide high level healthcare functions including but not limited to clinical systems support, clinical systems management, implementation and upgrade, clinical coordination, clinical risk management, clinical research management, patient registration, customer services, health information management and financial services.
TEAM International offers competitive pricing due to complimented offshore operations and service oriented culture. Thanks to our unique partnership philosophy, TEAM International allows healthcare companies to save an average 32% of their IT spending within one year and beyond.

Our formalized recruiting methodology has allowed us to place over 4,700 IT specialists over the years. Below are examples of how this methodology works in a real-life practice:
• TEAM’s method ensures that our clients will have an assigned and dedicated Healthcare Account Executive (AE) to work with those who hold “ownership” for accurately and timely fulfillment of each job request received from the client.
• AE submits candidates to client who then reviews resumes and either rejects a candidate or requests interview.
• If rejected, AE will work with client to ensure further submittals better match client requirements.
• TEAM recruiting sources and qualifies candidates using our proven thorough interview screening process.
• AE performs further qualification interview with candidates, validates their technical or professional skill sets, assesses candidate fit and either submits candidate to client or rejects candidate and notifies recruiter on how to modify search requirements for further submittals.

Our offshore recruitment model blended with our domestic operations allows us to charge clients below standard industry rates.

Since our core business is Healthcare IT and general IT staff augmentation, we work in all areas of staffing, direct hire, contract to direct and contract consulting. With regards to healthcare IT staffing, TEAM is a Tier 1 Supplier to U.S. leading healthcare IT systems providers, with a very strong Healthcare IT niche in EMR/EHR, Eclipsys, Epic, Siemens, Meditech, Cerner etc. On the IT side we are very strong in PeopleSoft, Lawson, SAP, SAP HR, Oracle and Java/.Net. We are strongly committed to quality of delivered products and services due to standards and requirements of TechServe Alliance and CMMI Level 3.

While many U.S. healthcare providers rack their brains over how to cost effectively integrate EMR/HER with their medical practices, some already enjoy the benefits of outsourced healthcare IT recruitment.

As Don E. Detmer, President and CEO of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), once said: “If you spend only enough money on an electronic record (with which) you essentially just do the data reporting function but not decision support, you will get some benefit but you won’t get that much. It’s really when you put in decision support that you get the true major benefits.” IT decision support is exactly what TEAM International offers to all of its clients.

For more information on our healthcare IT and healthcare IT staffing capabilities please go to http://teaminternational.com/services_IT_staffing.html

(Based on publications in Surgistrategies < www.surgistrategies.com > and Bradford-Scott Data Corp )