Revel Consulting launches Healthcare Practice to improve healthcare quality

Revel Consulting, a Kirkland, Washington-based business management consulting firm, today announced the launch of its Healthcare Practice to help providers, payers and life sciences organizations improve healthcare quality and safety, increase efficiencies, and maintain compliance in the face of ever-evolving regulatory requirements. Revel leverages its strong experience and success in management consulting, its unique PURE consulting model, and its expertise in health information technology (HIT) and health information management (HIM) to implement new technologies and business processes that result in superior patient experiences.

“Ballooning healthcare costs, increasing concerns about quality, and evolving regulatory requirements mean that healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to information technology for solutions that drive efficiencies while at the same time enhance overall quality”

“Ballooning healthcare costs, increasing concerns about quality, and evolving regulatory requirements mean that healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to information technology for solutions that drive efficiencies while at the same time enhance overall quality,” said Vikas Kamran, co-founder and CEO at Revel. “Our consultants’ deep industry knowledge and expertise combined with our agile PURE Consulting model give clients the effective solutions they are looking for.”

For healthcare providers, Revel’s services help improve healthcare quality and safety through meaningful use of certified electronic medical record (EMR) systems and other technologies. EMR adoption reduces preventable medical errors, enhances the overall patient experience and streamlines all facets of healthcare delivery such as easy access to complete medical records, placing electronic orders and viewing of order results. Revel’s newly-launched practice also offers providers ways to reduce healthcare costs through improved organizational efficiencies, limiting infrastructure costs and waste, while driving revenue through marketing strategies and best practices to optimize organizational governance and growth.

“It has been estimated that effective EMR adoption alone can save our nation more than $80 billion each year by improving healthcare efficiency and safety,” said Kamran. “Our Healthcare Practice can help organizations realize these potential savings by providing short-term and long-term solutions to the most pressing challenges.”

In a constantly changing regulatory environment, the firm’s Healthcare Practice helps healthcare organizations navigate HIM requirements surrounding patient data privacy, security, access, release of information, source data retention, audits, and breach notifications and penalties. Revel solutions also help life sciences organization address regulatory requirements for product safety, efficacy, and risk disclosure.

Revel launches the new practice under the direction of healthcare industry veteran, Randy Apsel. Apsel leads healthcare engagements for Revel with more than 20 years of project leadership, management consulting and software development experience and a strong focus on HIT services since 1997. This experience includes leading the transition to EMR systems for major Seattle-area healthcare providers. Apsel also serves on the Board of the Community Health Information Technology Alliance.

“Our nation spends 2.5 times more on healthcare than the average of the 30 most developed countries, yet we rank average at best in overall quality and outcomes,” said Apsel, Healthcare Practice Lead for Revel. “Our services will help providers, payers and life sciences organizations start to change that statistic by utilizing information technology and best practices to drive down costs while improving overall quality and safety.”

Revel’s Healthcare Practice serves the fastest-growing segment of the healthcare industry. According to a recent study by Scientia, HIT is the fastest-growing segment of the global healthcare marketplace, accounting for more than $1 trillion in expenditures per year and growing by more than 25 percent by 2013. In addition, the tens of billions of dollars in government stimulus funding targeted at improving healthcare quality and safety through HIT will only increase demand for the type of agile and innovative solutions that Revel offers. Clients will also benefit from Revel’s PURE Consulting model, which reduces layers of bureaucracy typical of large firms to provide clients with on-site, senior-level industry experts to lead projects and achieve results.