ASPEN ADVISORS

Aspen Advisors is a professional services firm that works collaboratively with healthcare organizations to optimize the value of their information technology investments. Given the challenges of integrating technology into the practice of medicine, Aspen Advisors assists healthcare executives and IT leaders in making informed technology decisions and deriving value from these significant investments.
Healthia Consulting and Aspen Advisors have formed an alliance to leverage the strengths of our respective firms to deliver increased value to our clients. We believe this offers a unique value-proposition:

Our demonstrated ability to tackle the toughest projects and flexibility to thrive in challenging environments.
Due to our size and exclusive focus in healthcare, we offer a higher level of quality and attention to our clients. Although we are not the biggest firm in the business, we are the right size and possess proven expertise to address your most difficult problems. Every project we accept is important to us. Every client impacts our reputation.
We are deeply committed to our client's success—all Aspen Advisors and Healthia Consulting clients are 100% referenceable. We recognize that our clients are our ecosystem—we need to give back and nurture our clients, so that we both can grow.
We are 100% focused in healthcare—our staffs have built their careers in the healthcare industry and completely understand healthcare operations and technology adoption.
The senior executives of both Aspen Advisors and Healthia Consulting direct and actively participate in service delivery.
Finally, our team enjoys what we do. Many of us have left larger firms to create an environment where we place our client's interest first, focus on enhancing the effectiveness of our clients through the use of IT solutions and are unobstructed by corporate bureaucracy.

Our distinguishing characteristics include:

Our understanding that healthcare operational processes are comprehensive and have many owners with various points of view. We believe a vital component of any engagement's success is the seasoned, experienced and objective leadership that will complement our clients' team.
We prudently and efficiently engage key constituents to understand and address issues and facilitate key decisions that mitigate risk while addressing requirements.
It is our belief that information technology can only derive organizational value if the appropriate governance and decision-making structures are in place to guide the enhancement of surrounding clinical and business processes during the implementation effort.
Well-defined and proven methodologies that "bridge the gap" between knowledge and execution. Our approach puts diverse constituents "on the same page", lowers risk, improves communications and greatly enhances the success rate of large-scale systems deployment and process improvement.
Deep program and project management experience, methodologies and tools ensure that the appropriate processes, structures, decision-making and communications mechanisms are in place to successfully deliver expected results and mitigate risk often associated with large-scale clinical information system initiatives.
We have found that acting as an objective and experienced advisor, we can help remove emotion and bias and facilitate effective decisions for the organization overall. Furthermore, knowledge-based decision making, with senior advisor input, guidance and coaching, makes for more effective outcomes.