Health Care Innovation

Health System Operations and Transformation

Federal health agencies today have more data at their fingertips than at any other time in their history. From cost savings to customer experience, it’s a scramble to keep up and figure out how to turn “big data” into action. Our interdisciplinary team of experienced health care strategy and design professionals, patient safety and high reliability experts, and certified performance improvement and change management practitioners can help sift through the noise. We crunch through the data to diagnose and fix your operational inefficiencies and we design and deploy the elements necessary to create sustainable change in your core business functions, which will ultimately unlock the full potential of your health system.

Professional Leadership and Training

Leadership is the driving force for change in any organization. As the health care industry continues to evolve, so to must its leaders. The future of health care requires institutions to develop, nurture and promote those that are inventive, collaborative, forward-looking, customer-oriented and more value-based. We offer an extensive team of public health researchers and leadership experts with a diversity of perspectives and experiences to provide the training and development solutions you need to develop informed leaders that can help shape the future of health care.

Program Evaluation and Measurement

Patient outcome is the only true measure of success in health care. That outcome is the result of a complex delivery web of programs, operations, informatics systems and actions that need to be monitored and assessed to ensure optimal performance. Our team of experienced performance improvement experts deploy a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to assist public health system officials gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their program activities and subsequently plan, design and implement necessary changes to optimize their value to patients.

Quality, Safety and Improvement

Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. While health care has become more effective over time, it has also become more complex, with greater use of new technologies, medicines and treatments that make it harder to ensure highly safe and effective care. Our seasoned team of professionals help public health entities better understand their provider practices and patient needs, identify risks, potential errors, and opportunities for redesign, and examine processes to improve productivity and performance while managing cost to ensure a better patient experience and improve patient outcomes.

Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

The rate of mental illness and emotional distress is on the rise and suicide is among the leading causes of death for adults age 45 and younger. Access to adequate treatment, however, remains difficult. Much of this is due to deficiencies in policy making and program implementation. Our team of behavioral health scientists, policy development professionals and program implementation experts understand that combating mental health issues and reducing the rate of suicide requires the engagement and commitment of people in many sectors, both inside and outside of government. Our experts help design, build and implement customized prevention strategies, frameworks and approaches that meet the needs of anypopulation, be it general or specific to an at-risk group such as adults or adolescents, military service members or veterans, or LGBTQ.

Informatics

Information is power. This is particularly true in today’s public health environment where that information is often buried inside a complex infrastructure of clinical IT components. Our health informatics solutions transform large clinical data sets into integrated information that can help support patient care throughout federal health enterprises. Through our patient-centered approach, we simplify workflows and integrate artificial intelligence to help you deliver precise health information management solutions.

Care Coordination

Well-coordinated care has the potential to deliver better patient outcomes, decrease costs and improve patient experiences. It is the basis for achieving the “triple aim” of health reform: improved quality, improved health and at a lower cost. We design, implement and evaluate care coordination processes focusing on efficiency, quality and timeliness.  Our experts leverage evidence-based practices and novel solutions in electronic health record utilization, information sharing, multidisciplinary teaming approaches and patient-centered care to guide public health systems through all phases of planning, transformation and sustainment.

Human Capital and Strategy

Our clients have complex organizations to run, programs and initiatives to launch and talent to hone. But with any ambitious mission comes unique operational challenges. Aptive approaches complex workforce challenges with organizational learning and performance solutions that help clients improve their people, processes and programs. Our specialists align their experience with your objectives to optimize performance at all levels.